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Hey there, Sprods.

Today is Friday, November 13th, 2020.

It is also the feast day of a great American citizen, St. Francis Xavier Cabrini.

Now, this week on the Catholic Spouts podcast, we have been talking about the call to discipleship.

After his baptism, Jesus calls specific people to be his disciples, including Peter,

Andrew, James, and John, who left everything and followed him.

But he called many others, many others whose response

to discipleship looked differently, the people that perhaps even stayed in their own homes and

continued to work the jobs that they already had, people like Mary, Martha, and Lazarus.

Now, through the great examples of some saints, including Pope St. Leo

the Great, St. Martin of Tours, and even St. Peter, we have seen that to be a disciple of Jesus

Christ, we need to be grounded in the person of Jesus Christ to know him, love him, have a relationship with him. And only after we have that,

that relationship, we can become a disciple, a disciple that does Jesus' work. Now, for Pope Leo

the Great, that meant proclaiming the truth and defending the people of Rome for St. Martin of Tours,

that meant leaving everything, even prestige and possessions to follow Jesus. And for Peter,

that meant following Jesus, giving up everything, and never letting things like weakness and sin stand between him and Jesus

Christ and doing the work that he was created to do. Now today we have an incredible saint that shows us

this last piece of being a disciple. The last piece of being a disciple is to be a missionary. If you remember in the

gospel, Jesus never says, hey, come follow me and then stay with me forever and just, you know,

let's just hang out forever. Let's not worry about other people. Let's just, let's just be together.

That sounds ridiculous, right? Because that's not what it means to be a Christian. To be a Christian means to come,

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