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Hey there, Sprouts. Today is Monday, January 4th, 2021. This week on the Catholic Sprouts podcast, we are going to be talking about something called the domestic church. Now, the

domestic church are the words that our Catholic faith uses to describe the family.

Now, it's not just any family, and just because you're related, you happen to be a domestic church.

Becoming a domestic church is a decision that a Catholic family makes when they

commit to living the way that God created them to live. Now before we get into all of the

explanation of the domestic church, I want you to know two things. Number one, no matter what your

family looks like if both of your parents are Catholic, if you live with both of your parents,

if your parents are married and divorced, if your siblings are older or younger, if you don't

have any siblings, no matter what,

absolutely no matter what exceptions you might be thinking about right now, you are called

to be a domestic church as a family. So that's number one, no matter what you might,

what you might be thinking right now, I am talking about your family.

And number two, God does not expect you to be perfect before you embark on building and living in a

domestic church. In fact, he wants us to live in a domestic church so that he can work on us and teach us what

holiness is and help us along the way.

Okay?

You promise?

You're not going to think that this doesn't apply to you.

It applies to everyone even before they have become perfect.

So today is also the feast of a great American saint, St. Elizabeth Anne Seton. St. Elizabeth Anne Seton was born just a few years before the American

Revolution. She lived in areas like Boston and New York, and she is the first American-born person to be canonized a saint.

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