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Hey there, Sprouts. Today is Thursday, March 25th, 2021.

We're still in the fifth week of Lent.

And today is also the Feast of the Annunciation.

It's a solemnity again.

So we get quite a few solemnities during Lent,

like the Feast of St. Joseph last week, the Annunciation this week. It's a special day that we

celebrate the Annunciation, which maybe you don't know what that is. Great. We'll talk about it.

I'm Kyle Hyman from Spokeshry Media. Also, Catholicism with my kid, the podcast. I'm with you all week'll talk about it. I'm Kyle Hyman from Spokesh Street Media, also Catholicism with my kid,

the podcast. I'm with you all week to talk about fatherhood, and we've talked about why God

created fathers, why we should listen to our fathers, how the priests in our life are spiritual

fathers to us, and today on the Feast of the Annunciation, I want to talk about the man of the

year, the man God selected to be his own earthly father, St. Joseph. I know, we've been talking about

him throughout this week. We talked about him last week. But Pope Francis called this the year of

St. Joseph. So it seems like we should be

talking about him. First of all, the enunciation. We don't usually think of St. Joseph when we talk

about the Annunciation. We think about Jesus. We think about Mary. We think about an angel. And if you're

not familiar with the story, the enunciation is kind of a big, fancy word for the moment when God announced his plan

that he would become man. He would be born of the Virgin Mary and rescue his people from sin.

So he desired to enter a family.

He could have just appeared and been a person on his own, but God chose to be part of an earthly human family.

And so if you go to Mass today, you'll hear a reading from the first chapter of Luke.

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