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Welcome back, Sprouts. Today is Wednesday, December 9th, 2020. Today is also the Feast of St. Juan Diego.

St. Juan Diego was a humble man who lived in Mexico at the end of the 1400s and the beginning of the 1500s.

Juan and his wife converted to Christianity and fell in love with Jesus.

Then one day as Juan hurried past a small hill on the way to Mass, a beautiful woman appeared to him.

She called Juan her dear and littlest son, and she asked him to go to the

bishop and request that a chapel be built on that spot. Juan, just a humble man, hesitated, but he obeyed.

Eventually, after appearing to Juan many times, the bishop was convinced to build the chapel

thanks to a miraculous image of Mary that appeared on St. Juan Diego's Tilma. Most remarkable of all,

however, after the appearance of Our Lady of Guadalupe to St. Juan Diego, nearly the whole

of Central and South America was converted to Christianity. And even though it was

over 500 years old and should have turned to dust long ago, St. Juan Diego's Tilma, with the image of

our Lady of Guadalupe, is still around today. And several years ago, I was able to see that

amazing image when I was in Mexico City. Okay, Sprouts, all

week we've been talking about St. Joseph. Yesterday, we talked about how prayerful he was,

and today we will be chatting about the important role that he played in Jesus' life. Think about

this for just a minute. Jesus was present at the creation of the world.

He is God, and yet he humbled him himself, not just by taking on a human body, but he humbled

himself by taking on everything human.

When he was born, he was weak and fragile, just like any other baby. Also, Jesus humbled himself so

greatly that he allowed humans, his creations, to have authority over him. Jesus, God himself,

was obedient to St. Joseph, and he did all of this out of love for us.

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