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Greetings young Squire Sprouts.

Today is the 19th day in the second month in the year of our Lord 2022.

I'm Sir Roland Paterlot, your host, and you're listening to Saturdays with Sir Roland on Catholic Sprouts,

where every Saturday we discuss the art of dragon slaying. Last week we started our discussion on the importance of baptism,

and how it sets us out on our extraordinary mission of becoming saints. I hope that you wrote

your mission down and stuck it all over your house this week, and I hope you signed up for

our Dragon Slayers Training

Guild and gotcha become a saint wristband. If you did, then you now realize just how many decisions

we make every day and how many everyday dragons we all face. Dragons are everywhere, and you might

have discovered that they're not large dinosaur-like creatures. They hide,

invisible to the naked eye, tempting you in the ordinary moments of the day to choose a lesser

version of yourself. Resist and slay those dragons by choosing the sanctin's side of you all

through the day with ordinary acts of kindness, love, and virtue. Today, we're going to discuss what is the matter with baptism.

No, no, not what is wrong with baptism. There's nothing wrong with baptism. We're going to discuss

what is the matter used in baptism or what is the stuff used because you see matter matters.

For example, you cannot use milk to baptize a baby. I like milk.

There's nothing wrong with milk. It's even white to match the baby's dress. But it's the wrong

matter. So I can hear you asking, what's the right matter? Why does the church use it? And why does it

make all dragons flee? Great questions, young squires.

Well, the three types of matter we're going to discuss today are water, oil, and light. All of them,

ordinary substances. But are you surprised? After all, Jesus is the master of disguise. He is a genius

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