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Hey there, Sprouts. Today is Friday, February 12, 2021. This week on the Catholic Sprouts podcast, we have been talking about our motto, letting the Eucharist lead. We talked about how we

are all part of a huge Eucharistic procession,

and we need to follow Jesus truly present on this earth in the Eucharist. We talked about the

sacrifice of the Mass. We talked about adoration. We even talked about Mary's role in all of this.

But today we are going to get down into specifics

and we are going to talk about what it actually means and how we actually let the Eucharist lead.

So here are some tips for letting the Eucharist lead in your life, as well as what we do here

at Catholic Sprouts to make sure we are allowing the Eucharist to lead.

So first of all, my friends, let's look to a saint for an example.

St. Edith Stein was born a Jew and she unfortunately lived when the Nazis were coming to power in Germany.

She was incredibly intelligent, but she did not believe in

God. However, through her studies and through her personal searching, she found God, and she was

surprised to find the truth of the Catholic Church. Eventually, she converted. Edith eventually joined

a Carmelite order where she took the name

Teresa Benedicta of the cross. However, the Nazis soon found her there, even in the convent,

and she was taken to Auschwitz, which was a Nazi in extermination camp, and she died there. Beyond this, St. Edith Stein was a prolific writer,

and wrote many beautiful things that help us to understand ourselves, especially Catholic women.

In her writing, Edith Stein advised people to let the Eucharist lead them every day. To do this,

she said, start your day with the Eucharist.

Now, she was a religious sister, so you might think it was probably a little bit easier for her.

Every day at the convent, they started their day with mass and adoration. Now, chances are it's not

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