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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.

Welcome back to the Catholic Sprouts podcast, where we are reading through the Gospels this school year.

Today is day 35.

We are in the Gospel of Matthew reading chapter 20 verses 17 through 34, in which we will hear

about the very strange requests of James and John. I'm reading from the New American

translation of the Bible. I encourage you to follow along, take notes, and enter into prayer with me.

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 of the Son,

and of the Holy Spirit, amen.

A reading from the Holy Gospel, according to Matthew, chapter 20, verses 17 through 34.

As Jesus was going up to Jerusalem, he took the 12 disciples aside by themselves and said to them on the way,

Behold, we are going up to Jerusalem,

and the son of man will be handed over to the chief priests and the scribes,

and they will condemn him to death and hand him over to the Gentiles,

to be mocked and scourged and crucified,

and he will be raised on the third day.

Then the mother of the sons of Zebedee approached him with her sons and did him homage,

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