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Hey there, Sprouts. Today is Thursday, January 21st, 2020.

This week on the Catholic Sprouts podcast, we have been answering the question central to our lives as Christians.

Who is Jesus Christ?

Through lots of facts found in the gospel, we know,

without a doubt, that Jesus is the Messiah. He is the son of God. Now, after knowing all of these things and having this proven to us by the fact that he can forgive sins.

He has command over nature.

He is eternal.

We should be feasting because he is the Messiah and has brought in the Masonic age.

All of these reasons.

We are forced to examine our own lives and evaluate what it means

to be a Christian, what it means to belong to Jesus Christ, the Messiah, the Son of God.

Now, today we are celebrating a feast of a very popular saint of an early Christian martyr. Her name was Agnes. We sometimes call her Agnes of Rome. And if you

have ever seen art of this saint, she is likely holding a lamb.

Now the story of St. Agnes is a dramatic story, a violent story. Of course, she died a martyr.

But it also gives us a picture of what it means to really believe that Jesus Christ was God, that he continues

to exist today in our churches and our tabernacles, and what that means for us who live as

Christians. So St. Agnes lived in the 200s and she lived in Rome during a time when it was

illegal to be a Christian, where the punishment for being Christian was death. Legend tells us that

Agnes belonged to a wealthy family and that she was beautiful. And because this was a long time ago, girls got buried when

they were very young. And so when Agnes was 12 or 13 years old, suitors began to come around

and try to convince her to marry them. However, St. Agnes had secretly become a Christian,

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