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Today is the 26th day in the 10th month in the year of our Lord 2021.

My name is Sir Roland Paterlot, your host this week on Catholic Sprouts, and we are talking about dragon slaying. Yesterday, we talked about what a dragon is. A dragon is sin. It's temptation, it's distractions. It's any obstacle to

becoming a saint, and we need to be able to slay dragons. Yesterday, I told you that I would teach you

that we all suffer from dragon wounds, and we do, because you see, up until 2,000 years ago,

dragons ruled the earth, and people were slaves to the dragon wounds we call sin and death.

But of course, God sent his son, Jesus, the chief dragon slayer. And in the agony of the garden,

Jesus vowed to pay the price for our dragon's sins, for our wounds.

And the next day, they crucified him on a tree.

The world was plunged into darkness, and it seemed the dragons had won.

But you and I know the story that three days later, Jesus rose from the dead and defeated the powers of the dragons forever.

But the bad news is, is those dragons, those vile creatures,

they still wander the earth with their vile stench, and they tempt all of us to sin. So we must

be battle-ready. We must be able to identify the dragons so that we can heal our dragon wounds.

And that's what we're going to talk about today. How can we be healed of dragon wounds?

Well, the good news is that the chief dragon slayer Jesus knew that we still struggle from temptations to dragons.

And so he left us a great sacrament that can heal us if we do get wounded.

And of course, that sacrament is the sacrament of reconciliation.

It's like the antidote,

the anti-venom that can heal you when you get tripped up. And we need to be able to prepare

for this sacrament, and the way we do that is to identify our dragons and what we call an

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