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Hey there, Sprouts. Today is Thursday, August 19th, 2021. This week we're talking about the seventh beatitude. Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God. We have already talked about how the opposite of peace

is not just war, but we can have a lack of peace inside of ourselves that leads to frustration,

emptiness, dissatisfaction, and worry. We've talked about how in order to bring peace to the world, we need to have peace

inside of us that alone comes from God. And through the example of St. Helena, we saw that even

when we are hurt, we can still be filled with God's peace and bring that to the world like she did.

Now, today we are going to talk about rest.

Rest is an important part of peace.

And God knew this from the very beginning.

He knew that we would need rest.

So he worked it into our week.

If you remember, God created the world in six days, and then on the seventh,

he rested. And he asks us to rest on the Sabbath as well. In fact, he says in scripture,

the Sabbath was not made for man, but man was made for the Sabbath.

We were made to rest.

Now let's talk about Sundays.

We have a Sunday obligation where we go to Mass.

It is our joy to go there and to receive Jesus Christ truly present in the body, in the bread and wine, his body, blood,

soul, and divinity. So we go to Mass, but then what do we do with the rest of our day? How is Sunday

different? Well, on Sunday we are called to rest, and it can be hard to know what rest means. Of course, we know that sleeping is rest,

but if we're not tired, what do we do on a Sunday to rest? Well, we need to refrain from anything

that feels like work. For example, some people wonder, can I cut the lawn on Sunday? And the answer to that is,

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