You're listening to Catholic Sprouts,

the daily podcast for Catholic kids that strives to plant seeds of faith. Hey Catholic Sprouts. Today is Thursday, July 16th, and it is the optional memorial of Our Lady of Mount Carmel.

Now this week, we are talking about the body and health and fitness.

And we're going to get to health and fitness today.

But before we do that, I'd like to review a little bit.

Now, we have been talking about the goodness of the human body, how God created our bodies very good.

And how we need to honor our bodies and also how our bodies reveal something about our souls.

They reveal how we can live out our masculinity if we were created a man and our femininity if we

were created a woman.

And since our bodies are so good, it's important that we take care of them.

And that's what we're going to talk about today.

And what I want to do is I want to start with a verse from Scripture.

And this is from the New Testament. It's from the first letter to the

Corinthians chapter 6 verses 19 and 20, if you wanted to look it up. But this is what it says.

It says, do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, which you have from God, and that you are not

your own. For you were bought with a price, therefore glorify God in your body. Glorify God in your body.

So let's break this down. Verse 19 says that our bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit. Now a temple in the Jewish tradition is like a church today.

Now what do you think of when you think of a church?

What are some things that come to mind?

Is a church ugly?

Hopefully not.

No, churches are beautiful because they're that dwelling place of God.

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