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Today is Tuesday, June 30th, 2020.

This week on the Catholic Sprouts podcast, we are talking about the Fourth Commandment,

to honor your mother and father.

Yesterday, we looked at the very first part of this, and this, of course, is the fact that Jesus came to earth.

He could have come here any way he wanted to, but he decided to come to earth in a family.

And God can't make mistakes.

He obviously chose the best way to give us the best example.

And he spent most of his life hidden away in Nazareth doing ordinary family things and honoring his own mother and father.

Now today we are going to talk about what probably comes to mind first when we think of this commandment.

And that is obedience.

Obedience.

Now, what does it mean to be obedient?

Well, this means, probably, simply, we can say it means that we do what we are told to do.

That's a simple way to understand it, but more so obedience means that we do what we are told to do. That's a simple way to understand it,

but more so, obedience means that when someone has legitimate authority over you,

when they have good and reasonable authority over you,

that you submit to their will.

For example, we acknowledge that there is a speed limit on our roads when we are driving,

and we acknowledge that the government has authority over us and that the police have a right

to pull us over if we are not being obedient to the posted speed limit signs.

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