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Hey there, Spouts. Today is Monday, March 30th, 2020. This week is also the fifth week of Lent, and we are continuing to look through the vices that we all struggle with. We've already

talked about things like anger, pride, and greed.

And this week, we are going to talk about the sin of sloth. Now, sloth is kind of an old,

sort of a word, and you might sort of know what it means. So in general, we can use the word

sloth to just refer to general laziness, like not getting up and getting some exercise or getting your work done or sleeping in too late or just not doing what you're supposed to be doing because you'd rather lay around.

That is laziness or sloth.

But it becomes a major sin when sloth applies to things of the spiritual world.

When we are lazy not only about our job or cleaning our room, but lazy about becoming

a better person, growing in virtue, when become

lazy in prayer, when we don't do it or we do it in a quick and easier way, or when we are too

lazy to really learn about our faith. We don't read books or listen to podcasts to learn more about it.

Now, this is something that people struggle with their whole life. And sometimes you can even

be a very busy, active person, someone that works hard and exercises and is never late and keeps a clean room,

and yet still struggle with the sin of sloth because you don't take time to pray.

You don't take time to learn about your faith.

The sin of sloth reminds us that no matter how busy or how much hard work we put into things,

if we ignore the work that God is calling us to and the work that we need to do to become better

versions of ourselves, then we are still living a super sinful life.

Now, this week, we are celebrating a whole bunch of saints that I

bet you haven't heard of. They are some fun saints from all over the world and from various

times in history. And the thing about saints, my friends, is that every single saint that

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