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Hey there, Sprouts. Today is Tuesday, October 5th, 2021. Today is also the feast day of St. Faustina. Now, St. Faustina was a Polish nun that lived not too long ago. but we know St. Faustina most for the visions that she received of Christ.

And these visions have become known as the divine mercy.

The divine mercy is an image, a prayer, a novena, a feast day.

But the image of the divine mercy shows Christ standing before us, taking a step closer to us.

He is gesturing toward his heart.

And from his heart are coming rays of red and blue light.

This reminds us of when his heart was pierced on the cross and blood and water flowed forth.

Blood symbolizing the Eucharist, water reminding us of our baptism.

But this image with the words underneath it, Jesus,

I trust in you, remind us that God is an ocean of mercy. No matter what we have done,

he is there waiting to forgive us, to wrap us in his mercy, and to help us start again. The only thing we have to do

to receive this love and mercy is to trust him. So let's all reflect on that, Lord, increase my trust

in you. Now this week on the podcast, we are talking about why Catholicism is the true version of Christianity.

Yesterday, we looked at history, and we were reminded that for the first 1,500 years of the 2,000 years since Christ, there was one church, and that church was the Catholic Church.

They celebrated Mass and had priests and all of the sacraments and prayed the rosary.

There was one church.

It was only in the 1500s through the Protestant Reformation that that changed, that men like

Martin Luther or King Henry VIII broke off of the Roman Catholic Church and founded their own

Christian denominations.

Now before we go further in this proof, I think it's important that we address one thing.

Now, I would bet that no matter who you are or where you live, you have close friends or family

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