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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.

This year we are journeying through the Gospels.

We are on week zero.

This officially kicks off next week, but we are spending this week getting prepared

and learning why it is going to be such an adventure, an adventure of a lifetime, to spend a year

reading and reflecting and praying our way through the Gospels. Now, we have already talked a little bit about why the Gospels are so

important and why they hold such an important place in our faith, but also in the liturgy of

the Mass. Today, we're going to start to talk about the authors of the Gospels. So as you know,

the authors have their names as the books of the gospel.

We have Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. These authors come from the apostolic age, the very beginning

of the church, when the apostles were still alive.

If you listened to the podcast last year, you maybe remember the week that we spent talking

about apostolic succession.

When Jesus rose from the dead, he breathed on his followers, on those apostles.

He shared his Holy Spirit with them at Pentecost, and he entrusted the church to them.

Now, when those men died because they did, God's power and authority that had been invested in those men was not gone.

Instead, it was passed on to the person who replaced them.

And these people we know now as bishops, that the bishops all around the world are in that line of apostolic succession.

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