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Hey there, Sprouts. Today is Friday, March 25th, 2020. Today is also the feast of the annunciation.

Now, this is a fun feast because if you think, today is March 25th what is exactly nine months from

today hmm that would be December 25th the day that we celebrate Jesus's birth or Christmas

and so what happens on the enunciation?

Well, today is the day that we celebrate the angel appearing to the Blessed Virgin Mary,

announcing that she had been selected by God to bring our Messiah, our Savior to the world, Jesus.

And of course, it all happened when she said yes.

She conceived Jesus in her womb, and she carried him for nine months.

So this is the moment when Mary said yes.

What a beautiful day.

She said yes.

She said yes to it, even though it was confusing and hard and scary.

She said yes. And that is an important thing for us to remember, especially as we go

through this series on the seven deadly sins. Every time we say no to God, we give in to the sin of

pride or envy or gluttony, we're saying no. We're refusing to give that yes, like Mary said. We're saying yes to our stomachs or

yes to our own pride or yes to whatever. And that ends up being a no to God. So let's just

reflect on that as we wrap up this week on our fourth sin that we're talking about, which is

gluttony. So already this week, we have

talked about how gluttony is an over and sinful indulgence in food and drink. It's also a

preoccupation with our body and forgetting to take care of our souls. We talked about how

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