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Hello, Sprouts. Today is August 5th, 2018, and the Feast of the Transfiguration. This week on Catholic

Sprouts, we are talking about a very special path to holiness, the little way. The little way is a path to holiness that St.

Therese of Lassou first told us about. Now, St. Cherez of Lassou was a French nun that lived

over a hundred years ago. She died when she was young. She was the youngest of a family of girls,

and you might think that you don't have anything in common with her. After all, she lived over

a hundred years ago. She spoke French, and she was a nun. But I think you do have a lot in common with her.

Now, unlike a lot of other saints in our Catholic faith,

St. Cherez never performed any amazing miracles,

and she never had any spectacular visions of Jesus in Mary.

Instead, St. Choraz was simple and a little bit ordinary, and dare I say,

a little bit like us. So St. Choraz developed a way for the rest of us to be holy. It's called

the little way. Now, while great saints of our Catholic faith might have gone

and done amazing deeds and experienced tremendous suffering and therefore climbed a steep and difficult

mountain to heaven, St. Cherez says there's a way for us that are little, and it's called the

little way. And instead of climbing a mountain, it's more like riding an elevator. Now, chances are

you've ridden an elevator before, right? It doesn't take a lot of effort, but you do have to agree to get on.

Now, the path to holiness, the little way, the elevator is not an ordinary elevator.

St. Terese tells us that our elevator to holiness and to heaven is nothing more than the arms of Jesus Christ. He loves us. He loves us more

than we could ever understand. And he has more mercy and forgiveness for the times when we sin,

when we don't do very good at following him, then we could ever understand. And so the elevator

to heaven for us are the arms of Jesus Christ. All we have to do is agree to get on, to climb into

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