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Hey there, Sprouts. Today is Tuesday, March 16th, 2021. Today is also the feast day of a Jesuit martyr named St. John Debriebvre. Now, all week long, we are building our way toward the feast day of St. Joseph on Friday, which is a solemnity. And we will be doing this by looking at each of the saints that

celebrate a feast day this week and pondering how God can use all things for his glory,

both the good things and the bad or the broken or the hurtful

things. But all of these things, our suffering, our pain and our brokenness can be used for God's

greater glory. Now, as I said today is the feast day of St. John de Breivuf. Now, he was a French priest,

who was a Jesuit, and he volunteered to go to Canada, specifically the area of Quebec, and to go

there as a missionary for the native peoples. Now, at the time, there was a French colony, and there was Jesuits going there

to minister to the people from France that had moved there. But he went with a dedicated purpose,

a bringing news of Jesus Christ, and the sacraments to those that were native. And so he went,

he found a place to live among a tribe of people called

the Huron. Now, at the time, the Huron were really not very open to learning about Jesus. They were

very suspicious of Europeans, of priests, of the religion. And yet St. John built his life there. He lived in the wilderness

through all of these difficult circumstances. He learned their language, and he tried to

befriend them. Now, throughout all of these years, the Huron tribe tolerated him. They didn't

necessarily listen to him or like him,

and his life was always in danger. In fact, at one point, after he had lived there for a couple of

years, the chiefs of the tribe got together and decided that it was time to execute all of the

Jesuit missionaries that lived with them. Well, St. John heard this news,

and he offered to host a farewell banquet in his honor, to invite the people that were ready

to kill him to a big feast. So he did this, and they all came. And then when they were all seated and eating, St. John stood before them and began to preach.

And he spoke about Jesus and the church in such a beautiful and eloquent way

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