Catholic Sprouts: Daily Podcast for Catholic Kids

By Nancy Bandzuch

Are you a Catholic parent ready to start sharing your faith with your kids in a way the whole family can enjoy? You're in the right place! The Catholic Sprouts Podcast is a daily podcast for Catholic ... more

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Number 1: September 10: VEN. IGNACIA DEL ESPÍRITU SANTO: A Needle and a Pair of Scissors
Turned away from every convent in Manila for being Filipina, Venerable Ignacia del Espíritu Santo built one herself with a needle and scissors. When Spanish colonial convents refused to accept native Filipina women, Ignacia left home with almost nothing and began a quiet life of prayer and honest work near Manila's Jesuits. Other women joined her, and the community she never sought official credit for became the first religious congregation for native Filipino women. "She just had her love for Jesus and her willingness to live it out in the open." Want to keep living Ignacia's story after the episode ends? Grab our free Family Pack — a saint calendar with daily challenges, feast-day activities, family discussion questions, and more — free for email subscribers, so your family can follow along together: https://shop.catholicsprouts.com/pages/every-days-a-feast-day-follow-along
September 10, 20267min
Number 2: September 14: THE EXALTATION OF THE CROSS: Too Heavy for a Crown
Legend says the True Cross grew too heavy for an emperor to carry — until he traded his crown for bare feet. This feast remembers Emperor Heraclius's return of the recovered True Cross to Jerusalem in the 600s. Tradition holds that the Cross wouldn't budge, and the city gate wouldn't open, until Heraclius set aside his royal robes and crown and carried it in simple humility instead — a reminder of why the Church still lifts up the Cross every year. "It's a symbol that love, even suffering love, wins in the end." This feast's challenge doesn't have to end when the episode does. Our free Family Pack has a saint calendar, feast-day activity pages, and family discussion questions to keep it going at home — free when you subscribe: https://shop.catholicsprouts.com/pages/every-days-a-feast-day-follow-along
September 14, 20268min
Number 3: September 15: OUR LADY OF SORROWS: She Did Not Look Away
Our Lady of Sorrows stood at the foot of the Cross and simply would not look away. This feast honors the depth of Mary's suffering as Jesus's mother, from Simeon's warning that a sword would pierce her heart, all the way to Calvary, where she stood beneath the Cross to the very end. Because she knows real suffering, Catholics have brought their own sorrows to her for two thousand years. "That is what real love does. It does not look away." Today's challenge is just the start. Grab our free Family Pack — a saint calendar, activity pages, and discussion questions for the whole family, plus more surprises along the way: https://shop.catholicsprouts.com/pages/every-days-a-feast-day-follow-along
September 15, 20266min
Number 4: September 11: SERVANT OF GOD WILLIAM ATKINSON: Called Anyway
Servant of God William Atkinson became a quadriplegic before he ever became a priest — then became the Church's first quadriplegic priest anyway. An eighteen-year-old novice when a tobogganing accident left him paralyzed from the neck down, William trusted that God's call on his life hadn't disappeared. In 1974, with special papal permission, he was ordained — going on to spend thirty years as a beloved chaplain and theology teacher. "What his body could no longer do on its own, God found a way to accomplish through him anyway." William's challenge doesn't have to end when the episode does. Our free Family Pack has a saint calendar, feast-day activity pages, and family discussion questions to keep it going at home — free when you subscribe: https://shop.catholicsprouts.com/pages/every-days-a-feast-day-follow-along
September 11, 20266min
Number 5: September 7: ST. REGINA: A Queen Who Chose Heaven
St. Regina, a teenage shepherdess secretly baptized as a baby, chose martyrdom over marriage to a Roman official. Raised in the fields tending sheep, Regina turned her ordinary work into constant prayer with God. At fifteen, when a Roman official demanded she marry him and deny the faith she'd been secretly baptized into as a baby, Regina refused — and was martyred for holding firm. "She already belonged to a King far greater than Olybrius could ever be, and she would not trade Him away for anything the world could offer." Want to keep living Regina's story after the episode ends? Grab our free Family Pack — a saint calendar with daily challenges, feast-day activities, family discussion questions, and more — free for email subscribers, so your family can follow along together: https://shop.catholicsprouts.com/pages/every-days-a-feast-day-follow-along
September 07, 20266min