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Hey there, sprouts.. Today is Friday, April 1st, 2022. This week on the Catholic Spouts podcast, we have been talking about the deadly sin of sloth, which is laziness, both physical

and spiritual. We learned about how Jesus worked, how we were created to work,

how we are saved by both faith and works,

and how Christ will ask us what we did when we stand before him in final judgment.

And yesterday we talked about how we need to be on guard

against spiritual slothfulness and also how we need to be on guard against spiritual slothfulness

and also how we need to keep working, not necessarily be successful, but remain faithful to

that work.

So today, on the final day, we're going to talk about the opposite of spiritual slothfulness

because there is, for every sin, there is a virtue, something that is so

good. And we are invited to go to that really good, good place. So the opposite of sloth is

zeal. Zeal for the mission. Seal. Now this is like tremendous energy, focus, excitement about

something that you are called to do and that something is a mission. Now, whoever you are,

wherever you are, no matter how old you are, God created you for a specific

purpose, and he has a very specific mission for you, something that he had in mind since the beginning

of the world. He created you and he put you right where you need to do

to do this certain work. It might take a couple of years to discover what that work is.

As you grow and change, maybe that work will change, but God really does have a plan for you.

And our call is to figure out what that work is and to throw

ourselves into it, to refuse to be lazy and to get to work. Now what is so beautiful is that if

you look at all of the saints of the Catholic Church, they each had a very different calling. And yet

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