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Hey there, Sprouts. Today is Wednesday, March 3, 2021. Today is also the feast day of an incredible American St. Catherine Drexel.

Now, all week, we have been reminding ourselves of the commitments that we have made for Lent,

and we are again reminding ourselves that everything we do for Lent has one goal,

and that is to make us more like Christ.

So all week we are looking at the example of the incredible saints celebrating their feast days this week so that we can remember

why we fast, why we pray, and why we give alms. We've already seen a powerful example of fasting

from St. David of Wales. Yesterday, through the example of St. Agnes of Bohemia, we reminded ourselves

that our most powerful calling on this earth is to pray.

And today, one of my favorite saints, St. Catherine Drexel is here to teach us about

omnsgiving. So a little about St. Catherine Drexel. St. Catherine Drexel lived, she was born in

1858 and she died in 1955.

So she lived under a hundred years ago.

She's American.

She was born in Philadelphia and she was born to an incredibly insanely rich father, like

millions and millions and millions and millions of dollars. Her mother died when she was

very young, but her father remarried a very wonderful stepmother. They were Catholic and even

though they were so rich, the Drexels committed themselves to serving the poor. They went to

all sorts of places to serve the poor. And actually when she was young, her father and her stepmother and her sisters, they went out to the American West and they visited people on American Indian reservations.

At the time, in American history before this, the Native Americans had been forced to leave their lands and move

on to government-run reservations. And while they were there, they were very, very poor. In fact,

poverty still continues to be a major problem on American Indian reservations. So St. Catherine

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