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Today is Friday, April 8th, 2020.

This week on the Catholic Sprouts podcast, we have been talking about the sin of greed.

We've already talked about how greed is loving money and possessions too much, how greed is a sin because it forces us to stop trusting God, to worry about our money and possessions, and to think that

we can create heaven for ourselves here on earth. We also looked at how Jesus demonstrated a life

free of greed, how he was born to poor parents,

and he chose to die with nothing, owning and having nothing.

So Venerable Fulton Sheen pulled out two lessons for us.

The first of these lessons was that the more we have, the more ties we have to possessions

and money here on earth, the harder it will be for us to get to heaven. The second lesson,

which we're going to talk about today, is that we need to accept the fact that we will never be

fully satisfied here on earth. We all think that we will be,

though, don't we? We all think that if I can just save up enough money and get a Nintendo

switch, I'm going to be happy, I'm going to be satisfied. Or maybe an adult thinks, you know,

if we could just have a better, nicer house

and a better neighborhood with the right kitchen, then I'm going to be really happy.

Or if we think, if I can save up enough money where I have this huge bank account, or I won the

lottery and I had millions of dollars, then I would be just so satisfied and so happy.

We keep thinking these things, but I think all of us also know the truth.

The truth is that we're going to get to that milestone, whatever it is, or we have the Nintendo

Switch, or we have a better house, or we have a big bank account.

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