You're listening to Catholic Sprouts, the daily podcast for Catholic kids that strives to plant seeds of faith.

Greetings, young Squire Sprouts. Today is the ninth day in the fourth month in the year of our Lord 2022.

My name is Sir Roland Peterlot, and you're listening to Saturdays with Sir Rowland

on Catholic Sprouts, where every Saturday we discuss the art of dragon slain.

All week you've been discussing the deadly sin of greed.

And there's another name for greed, which is the dragon named Averis.

In Sir Wyvern's manual, the symptoms of exposure to stents for Averis include greediness and whining for more stuff.

This dragon is a sinister dragon, and in such a rich and prosperous

nation like the United States of America, Averis loves to drag us down with the lie that more

stuff will make us happy. Avris is a cunning creature, and he uses the carrot and stick method

to trap us. He dangles something in front of us to lure us away from God, but he knows that the

carrot or stuff he tempts us with isn't really going to satisfy us. And so he always keeps putting

more carrots out there to draw us farther and farther away from God. And there's nothing

wrong with carrots. They're actually good for your eyes. And there's nothing wrong with stuff.

The problem is the lie that

he sells with the stuff, which is that stuff will make you happy. To give you an example in my own

life, I've heard Averis's voice a lot lately because I really want a barn in my backyard. It started

with Averis simply whispering, all your neighbors have barns, you need a barn too.

If you just had a barn in your backyard, then you would be happy.

But then, of course, I think,

But I don't just want a barn.

I want a dragon slayer's training facility with an indoor archery range.

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