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This year, we are reading through all four Gospels.

Join us as we invite God to plant seeds of faith in our lives through His Holy Word.

Hey there, Sprouts.

Welcome back to the Catholic Sprouts podcast,

where we are working through the Gospels this school year.

Today is day 28 of this journey,

and we are reading from the Gospel of Matthew. Today you will hear all of chapter 15 and you will hear among other things Jesus speak to the Canaanite woman of her faith.

I'm reading today from the New American translation of the Bible. I encourage you to follow along and take notes as you listen. Also, remember that God's Holy Word is alive and active. So, join me as we pray that the Holy Spirit opens up our hearts and our minds to receive His Word. In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, amen.

Come Holy Spirit, fill the hearts of your faithful and kindle in them the fire of your love.

Send forth your spirit and they shall be created and you will renew the face of the earth.

Amen.

In the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, amen.

A reading from the gospel according to Matthew, chapter 15, verses 1 through 39.

Then Pharisees and scribes came to Jesus from Jerusalem and said,

Why do your disciples break the tradition of the elders?

They do not wash their hands and when they eat a meal.

He said to them in reply,

And why do you break the commandment of God for the

sake of your tradition? For God said, honor your father and your mother, and whoever curses father

or mother shall die. But you say, whoever says to father or mother, any support you might have had from me is dedicated to

God. Need not honor his father. You have nullified the word of God for the sake of your tradition.

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