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Today is Monday, February 8th, 2021.

Today is the feast day of one of my personal favorite saints, St. Josephine Bakita.

St. Josephine Bakita was born in Sudan and Africa. When she was a little girl,

Arab slave traders sold her from her home and she was forced to walk hundreds of miles barefoot

before she was sold into slavery. As a slave, she experienced terrible abuse at the hands of her owners.

In fact, the abuse was so bad that she eventually forgot her own name

and was given the nickname Bakita, meaning lucky,

because after all that she experienced, she was lucky to be alive.

However, through it all, Josephine felt a stirring for the

almighty in her soul. Later in her life, she wrote about looking up at the stars and wondering who made

these stars. She felt in her soul a desire to know this person, the maker of the stars.

Eventually, Josephine's master left the Sudan to escape a war and took Josephine with his family to Italy. While in Italy, Josephine and the child and the family were left at a monastery,

and there the nuns she stayed with introduced Josephine to Jesus. She instantly knew

that this was the maker of the stars and she asked to be baptized. The nuns took legal action to

free Josephine and eventually she became a nun. Despite the hardships that Josephine endured,

she was never bitter or angry.

She saw each event of her life as a step that brought her eventually to Jesus, the lover of her soul and the maker of the stars.

This week we will be talking about a motto that is very near to our hearts here at Catholic Sprouts, letting the

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