CS 721: Around the Church: Statues

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🗓️ 19 May 2021

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0:00.0	You're listening to Catholic Sprouts, the daily podcast for Catholic kids that strives to plant seeds of faith.
0:23.6	Hey there, Spouse.
0:27.4	Today is Wednesday, May 19th, 2021.
0:31.6	This week, we are once again taking a tour of our churches.
0:37.2	We have already talked about the stations of the cross this week, as well as visual candles. Today, we are going to talk about
0:39.9	statues. Now, again, all churches are different, but in almost every church there is a statue.
0:49.2	And if there isn't a statue, perhaps there's beautiful tapestries depicting people or beautiful paintings.
0:56.8	Whatever it is, there are probably beautiful depictions of people and not just Christ on the cross, but other people.
1:07.8	Commonly, we have statues of Mary, the mother of God, St. Joseph, the foster father of Jesus.
1:15.0	If your saint is named after someone, like my church is named after St. Maximilian Colby,
1:21.7	maybe there's a statue of that saint, or St. Terese, or one of those saints, There's a statue of them. Also very commonly in churches,
1:31.3	we have depictions of saints or even Bible stories in the stained glass windows. They're there.
1:40.0	Now, this is unique to Catholic churches. In most Protestant churches, they do not have images of the saints or other people.
1:50.1	So why do we have them in our churches as Catholics?
1:55.0	Well, the answer is actually very simple, and it's the same reason why, I bet, bet in your house you have photographs and paintings on the
2:04.8	wall we have statues and images of the saints because we want to remember them we want to remember them
2:14.6	we don't want to forget them we have statues and images because these were real
2:20.9	people. They lived, they breathed, they had thoughts. If they're a saint, they oftentimes had
2:30.1	struggles and failures, but yet they were faithful in the end. So we want to remember them.
2:38.1	Sometimes just hearing people's names, we can sometimes even forget that they were real like us,
2:43.8	that they felt what we feel. But seeing their statues reminds us they are real. And not only that,
2:54.2	the saints, we know that, yes, they lived on earth, but they continue to exist in heaven today. A saint has proven to us that they are in
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