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Hey there, Sprouts. Today is Sprouts. Today is Tuesday, January 7th, 2020.

This week on the Catholic Spouts podcast, we are going to talk about the sacraments. And in fact, we are kicking off a seven-week-long study of the sacraments because guess how many

sacraments there are. Seven. Now, chances are you've heard about the sacraments before and maybe you've

heard about them what you feel maybe too much. Maybe you think they're a little boring. Well,

let me assure you, sprouts, the sacraments are anything but

boring. In fact, here is the amazing thing about the sacraments. You probably know that there are a lot of

things in the spiritual life that we can't see. For example, what exactly does God the Father look like? What does the Holy Spirit look like?

There are so many mystical things that we can't see. The angels, the saints, we believe that all of these

things are a reality, but they're invisible. The cool thing

about the sacraments is that it is our opportunity to experience the invisible truths of our faith.

An opportunity for the invisible things to be made visible. Now, we are never going to

truly experience or understand God and the angels and all of these mystical invisible things

until we are in heaven. But through the grace of God, we have signs given to us in the sacraments so that we might

experience or come to understand the grace and the goodness and the workings of God with our

senses.

We have various senses with which we experience the world.

Of course, we can see things with our eyes,

hear with our ears, smell and taste and touch. This is how we experience and come to know and

understand things. We're humans. This is how we work. Now, our senses don't allow us to really see and understand God.

So he helps us out and he gives us signs in the sacraments.

Now, we're going to talk about all of the sacraments in the various weeks to come, but here is a quick review of all of the sacraments of the Catholic Church. The first one many people receive is baptism.

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