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Today is Monday, March 9th, 2020.

We are also in the second week of Lent.

This week on the Catholic Sprouts podcast, we are going to be talking about a new vice,

a new sinful tendency that we often struggle with, and that sin is envy.

But today, before we do that, I'm going to tell you a story. Now, the story is called The Selfish Giant, and it was originally written by Oscar Wild. So a long, long time ago,

there was a beautiful garden. And each day as the children

walked home from school, they would stop in this garden and play. There was 12 beautiful peach

trees. And in the spring, they would burst out with blossoms. There was flowers. And it was just

such delightful place to play. While the garden, it turns out,

belonged to a giant. The giant was away visiting his friend for seven years, but when he came

back, he found the children playing in his garden and he was not happy. The giant, after all,

was a selfish giant. He yelled and he screamed at the children and told

them to leave. And immediately he built a large wall all around his garden. And he put up a sign that

said no trespassers allowed. And he sat in his castle and looked out at his garden, determined to keep its beauty and

wonder all for himself. Well, time went on. Summer ended, autumn came, and so did winter. Winter raged

all across the land, and the giant really was waiting for spring to come to his garden,

for the trees to blossom and for the flowers to start growing. But he kept looking out at the

garden, and mysteriously, spring never came, at least not to the garden. In other places in the world,

flowers were growing and trees were

blossoming, but for the selfish giant and in his garden, it remained winter. And he sat there

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