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Hey there, sprouts. Today is Tuesday, March 9th, 2021. Today is also the feast day of St. Francis of Rome, an incredible saint that shows us how important it is to be generous and to serve the poor. Now this week on the Catholic

Sprouts podcast, we are returning to our study of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. All year

we have been following him and looking at his life closely. This week, we are looking at

his entry into Jerusalem. And yesterday we talked about the events we celebrate on Palm Sunday when Jesus rode into Jerusalem on a donkey.

Now, like we said yesterday, most likely during the final week of his life, Jesus slept out in Bethany with his friends, a small village that was a short walk into Jerusalem every day.

But each day he and his disciples headed into Jerusalem, they would be in the temple area.

Oftentimes Jesus would be preaching and teaching.

Now, one of the big things that Jesus speaks about in this final week of

his life in the temple area is he speaks about judgment. And he's speaking about judgment in two

different ways. He speaks about the judgment of Jerusalem, meaning the judgment of the Israelite people and what will ultimately

happen to them. But he's also talking about individual judgment, that at the end of this life,

we all will be called to stand before God, and we will be held accountable for the things that we did and the things that we

did not do. Jesus perhaps offers us the most challenging truth and that he says whatever we do

for the lowest and the weakest is things that we have actually done for him. And in the reverse,

the things that we refuse to do for the poor, the thirsty, the hungry, the prisoner, the

rejected when we refuse to help them and love them. We are in fact refusing to help Jesus.

Now as we approach Holy Week

and we continue to travel through Lent,

I just want to give you one thing to think about.

Now we in Lent are called to spend a special way

evaluating sin, but when we talk about judgment and the sins that we will be held

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