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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 working our way through the Gospels this school year.

Today is day 36 of this journey.

We are in the Gospel of Matthew, reading chapter 21, verses 1 through 22.

In this passage, we will hear and see Jesus enter Jerusalem.

Today I'm reading from the new American translation of the Bible. I encourage you to follow along and take notes,

and of course, keep your heart open that God can speak to you through His Holy 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 of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, amen.

A reading from the Holy Gospel according to Matthew, chapter 21, verses 1 through 22.

When they drew near Jerusalem and came to Bethfay's on the Mount of Olives, Jesus sent two disciples saying to them,

"'Go into the village opposite you, and immediately you will find an ass, tethered, and a

cult with her. Untie them, and bring them here to me. And if anyone should say anything to you,

reply, the master has need of them, then he will send them at once.

This happened so that what had been spoken through the prophet might be fulfilled.

Say to daughter Zion, behold your king comes to you, meek and riding on an ass and on a colt the full of a beast of burden.

The disciples went and did as Jesus had ordered them. They brought the ass and the colt and

laid their cloaks over them and he sat upon them. The very large crowd spread out their cloaks on the road,

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