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Well, hey there, Sprouts. Today is Thursday, October 1st, 2020. Today is also the feast day of a very special saint to us here at Catholic Sprouts, St. Terese of Lusseu. St. Teresa of L Lusu was the youngest in a family of all girls, who all of those girls eventually became nuns. Her mother and father are also saints, St. Zelly and Louis Martin. They were French. Terese answered a call to be a Carmelite nun when she was still a young girl, and

she died when she was in her 20s. She never left the convent after she entered, and she only

wrote one short little autobiography. And yet, this simple nun who never had any mystical visions

or worked a single miracle is a doctor of the faith.

Why? Well, because she gave us something called the little way, a way to heaven for the rest of us,

a way that uses a simple, sometimes even boring tasks of our day to lead us to holiness.

And she reminds us always to approach God, our father, as our own loving father.

And how he wants nothing more than for us to crawl up onto his lap, to tell him our troubles,

and to allow him to hold us. St. Chavez of Lesu,

pray for us. Spouts this week on the podcast, we are talking about the little town of Bethlehem.

We have already heard three stories about Bethlehem. We have heard about Ruth and Naomi, about David. And then we also

heard from the prophet Micah that this city, the little town of Bethlehem, would be the birthplace

of our Messiah because this was David's hometown. So of course, you probably know what happened on Christmas.

You know how Mary and Joseph traveled for many days from Nazareth to Bethlehem,

how they arrived there and the city was crowded.

Remember, Rome had ordered that everyone from the family of David, from this whole huge family,

generations that had been growing and had been scattered all over, that they would all

return to Bethlehem at this same time to be counted.

So all of the ends, every bed was filled. As Mary and Joseph walked into town,

Mary started to have the baby. They needed to find a place now. And yet every place they went was full.

There was no room for them. Eventually they were led to a stable. Some accounts call it

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