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Hey there, Sprouts. Today is Thursday, March 18th, 2021. Today is also the Feastay of St. Cyril of Jerusalem.

Now, all week long as we work toward tomorrow's feast day, the feast day of St. Joseph, the foster father of Jesus,

the spouse of Mary, which is a solemnity. We have been looking at the saints to celebrate their feast days this week, and we have been marveling at how God can use all things for his glory,

even pain, even brokenness, even things that are objectively wrong and

bad, like slavery or murder, he can use these things for his glory. Now, today's saint is no

exception. St. Cyril of Jerusalem lived in the 300s, and he lived in very interesting times.

Now, pause for a minute, and I want you to wonder. Maybe you've wondered about it before,

or maybe not. But have you ever wondered how the church came up with all of its teachings?

And I mean teachings in the big way and the small way.

Teachings about what it is morally good to do,

but also teachings about the nature of Jesus Christ.

There are many details of our faith,

which we recite in the creed,

that aren't necessarily said word for word in the Bible.

The most central of these beliefs is the idea that Jesus Christ, the man that walked the earth that died on the cross and rose from the dead,

that he is one with the father. Now, Jesus says this in the

gospel, but he never says it in an overt way like we do in the creed. And so early on in the time when

St. Cyril of Jerusalem was the bishop of Jerusalem, there was a heresy going around.

Now, a heresy is a false teaching. There were many officials inside of the church who called

themselves Christians, and yet they taught that Christ wasn't one with the father. Yeah, he was a really good guy, but he wasn't

quite one with God, that he wasn't God himself. Now, this is a big heresy. We, of course,

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