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Hey there, Sprouts. Today is Sprouts. Today is October 15th, 2020. It is also the feast day of St. Teresa of Avila.

St. Teresa of Avila is a very important Spanish Carmelite saint. St. Teresa had an interesting life that I probably bet you could relate to. As a little girl, she loved Jesus, but she also loved all sorts of

fancy things and having attention and the good life. So eventually she did answer a call to the Carmelite order,

but at the time, the Carmelites weren't really living out their call very well.

They lived a little bit like princesses in there,

which is not how the order was founded after lots of prayer

and help from her special saint in heaven who was St. Joseph, the foster father of Jesus.

She felt a calling to reform the Carmelite order, and that is exactly what she did.

She lived the rest of her life, calling her sisters to a deeper, more perfect union with God, more prayer, more sacrifice,

and she left a lasting impact on the Carmelite order to this day. She also has beautiful

writings about what it means to truly believe in God and connect with Him. So this week on the Catholic Sprout's podcast,

we are talking about the little village of Nazareth,

where Jesus grew up.

We've talked about what his home looked like,

those pilgrimages to Jerusalem.

We talked about St. Joseph,

who was likely his most important teacher.

And today we are going to continue to talk about St. Joseph, who was likely his most important teacher. And today we are going to continue to talk about St. Joseph and the most important thing that he gave to Jesus, which was their faith.

We know from the gospel that Joseph was a devout Jew. He went to Jerusalem for the pilgrimages. He offered sacrifice in the

temple as was asked of him. Now, here are some other things that historians tell us that Jewish fathers

most certainly would have done at the time when Jesus was born.

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