CS 498: 6-24-20: 3rd Commandment: Wednesday
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🗓️ 24 June 2020
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to Catholic Sprouts, the daily podcast for Catholic kids that strives to plant seeds of faith. |
| 0:23.7 | Hey there, Spouts. |
| 0:27.3 | Today is Wednesday, June 24th, 2020. |
| 0:32.6 | Today is also the solemnity of the birth of St. John the Baptist. |
| 0:37.9 | Before we go into the Third Commandment again today, let's talk about St. John the Baptist, and why is his birth such a big deal? Well, first of all, his birth is one of the few |
| 0:44.9 | births of saints that are recorded in the gospel. Mary went to go visit her cousin Elizabeth, |
| 0:52.0 | who was super old and yet miraculously pregnant, and that |
| 0:56.6 | Mary had this message delivered to her by an angel. So it was important enough that an angel |
| 1:03.0 | brought this message to Mary. St. John the Baptist, he is named John because of a message also delivered to his father by another angel. |
| 1:16.5 | Remember, the angel came to Zachariah, St. John the Baptist's father, and told him that he was |
| 1:24.0 | going to be a father, that even in their old age, they would be a father |
| 1:27.9 | and that this child would be a great prophet, the final prophet. Of course, his dad didn't |
| 1:35.2 | believe it, even though an angel from God was telling him this. So as a consequence, he was struck |
| 1:41.8 | dumb, which means that he was unable to speak. So for all of these days, |
| 1:46.9 | leading him to the birth of his son, he wasn't able to speak. Finally, the baby was born and they |
| 1:52.8 | were going to name the baby. And of course, they thought, well, of course, this long-awaited son, |
| 1:58.1 | he has to be named for his father. They were all going to name him Zachariah. |
| 2:03.0 | But as an act of faith, Zachariah asked for a tablet and wrote down the words, his name is John. |
| 2:10.5 | Because this is what the angel had told him. This was God's command. And through this, this act of faith, his father was able to speak again. |
| 2:20.1 | But why is the birth of St. John the Baptist such a big deal? Well, St. John the Baptist is that |
| 2:26.8 | final prophet that cleared the path for the nation of Israel to receive the Messiah. |
| 2:40.6 | Before Jesus started his public ministry, John the Baptist was out in the Jordan River in the wilderness living like a wild man, eating bugs and wearing the fur of wild animals. |
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