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Greetings young Squire Sprouts.

Today is the 23rd day in the fourth month in the year of our Lord 2022.

My name is Sir Roland Paterlot, and you're listening to Saturdays with Sir Roland on Catholic Spouts where every Saturday we discuss the art of dragon slain.

I hope you are having a wonderful Easter week.

As you well know, the octave of Easter has a grand finale tomorrow with Divine Mercy Sunday,

a day full of grace and mercy.

I must tell you about a dragon in Sir Wyvern's manual that absolutely can't stand Divine Mercy Sunday,

and he'll do whatever he can to distract you from participating in the beauty of this day.

The dragon's name is nemesist.

His symptoms of exposure to stench include unforgiveness and holding grudges.

This vile dragon wants you to have arch enemies.

He wants you to hold grudges and never forgive others,

and he wants you to believe that God will never forgive you.

Nemesis had an evil plan during Holy Week.

He worked with Malfactor and bilge water and many other dragons

to convince Judas to betray Jesus and Peter to deny Jesus,

and the Jews to call to crucify Jesus, and the Romans

to actually carry out the crucifixion. He thought his plan worked perfectly, and after Jesus was

treated so poorly by his closest friends and his own people, Nemesis thought for sure it would

cause Jesus to ask God to rain down a fire of wrath on all the people and that God would never

forgive them. He got all excited and he thought to himself, they're really going to get it now,

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