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Today is Wednesday, November 20th, 2019.

This week on the Catholic Spouts podcast, we are talking about the great gift of the Holy Spirit understanding.

We've already talked about how understanding is what separates us from the animals,

and also how the gift of the Holy Spirit of understanding is what allows us to really perfect our faith that we can know for certain that God is there by sensing things around us, by gathering information,

and being strong and firm in our faith. Now today we are going to look to Jesus for an incredible

way that he helps us with this gift of understanding. Now remember this with me. After Jesus

died on the cross, he was in the tomb for a couple of days and then he rose from the dead.

But when he rose from the dead, he didn't just go and hang out with the disciples for 40 days and stay with them all the time.

No, he was in a different form. He was in his glorified body. And also, he sort of came and

went. And there's one story in particular that we are going to talk about today, and that is the

road to Amas. What happened is that after Jesus rose from the dead, he appeared to a couple of

different disciples,

but he didn't appear to them all at once, at least not right away.

And these particular disciples that were on the road to Amas, they were marveling at all that had happened,

at the crucifixion and at the fact that some of the people in their company,

some of the other followers of

Jesus, had just claimed to have seen Jesus. They're talking about this. And then what happens

is a stranger, a very nice stranger, but someone that they had never seen before, starts walking

along with them, wondering, what are you talking about? And they marvel, they say, are you the only person in the world that hasn't heard about

what's been happening in Jerusalem, about the death of Jesus Christ, about the fact that he might

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