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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 kids, with short episodes designed to plant one seed of faith each day in an easy, stress-free way.We cover topics such as Catholic Feast Days, Morality, Catholic Theology, the saints, and sacraments. We understand the challenges you face as a Catholic parent and create episodes that promote learning together, so you can discuss as a family and incorporate what you've learned into your lives. For free resources to support your family's faith journey, head to https://catholicsprouts.com
Episodes
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October 9: ST. JOHN HENRY NEWMAN: In Search of the Truth
St. John Henry Newman was one of England's most celebrated Anglican preachers — until years of studying the early Church led him somewhere he never expected. Newman's deep study of Scripture and the early Church Fathers slowly convinced him that the Catholic Church, not the Church of England…
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October 8: ST. HILDEGARD OF BINGEN: A Feather on the Breath of God
St. Hildegard of Bingen kept a secret light inside her for thirty-five years before the world ever knew she carried it. From childhood, Hildegard experienced visions she called the Living Light, staying silent about them through decades of prayer and the Divine Office in her Benedictine…
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October 7: OUR LADY OF THE ROSARY: The Weapon Mary Gave Us
Today we celebrate an incredible naval victory that saved Christianity across Europe. Although greatly outnumbered, the members of the Holy League knelt on their ship decks and fervently prayed the Rosary, while people across Europe gathered to do the same. And Mary heard them! The wind shifted,...
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October 6: VEN. ALPHONSE GALLEGOS: No One Left Behind
Bishop Alphonse Gallegos drove straight into Sacramento's most dangerous neighborhoods and learned every young man's name. Shaped by years of feeling overlooked after a childhood illness, Alphonse grounded his ministry in long hours of silent prayer before the Blessed Sacrament every day. He then...
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October 5: ST. BARTOLO LONGO: From Darkness to Light
St. Bartolo Longo fell into the occult as a young lawyer — then found salvation through six words about the Rosary. After years lost in dark spiritual practices, Bartolo returned to the Church through confession and Mass, but carried deep guilt over his past. Kneeling in the Valley of Pompeii, a...
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October 4: ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI: Rebuild My Church
St. Francis of Assisi gave up his father's wealth to kiss the hands of a leper and rebuild a crumbling Church. Born into a prosperous merchant family, Francis walked away from comfort after an encounter with a leper on the road changed him completely, and a voice from a crucifix told him to…
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October 3: VEN. MATTHEW TALBOT: The Man Who Came Home
Venerable Matthew Talbot drank himself to ruin for sixteen years — then walked away from alcohol forever and never looked back. A Dublin laborer trapped by addiction since his teens, Matthew made a pledge to his mother to stop drinking entirely, then went to confession and never touched another...
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October 2: THE GUARDIAN ANGELS: Never Walk Alone
Three shepherd children in Portugal met their guardian angel face to face — and he taught them how to pray. In 1916, Lucia, Francisco, and Jacinta encountered the Angel of Peace on a quiet hillside, who knelt beside them, prayed with them, and even brought them Holy Communion. Their story is a...
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October 1: ST. THÉRÈSE OF LISIEUX: Small Things, Great Love
St. Thérèse of Lisieux discovered that holiness isn't about grand gestures — it's about small things done with great love. As a teenager, Thérèse felt every joy and sorrow so deeply it nearly overwhelmed her, until one quiet Christmas night changed her completely. Inside the Carmelite convent…
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September 30: ST. JEROME: Translator of the Holy Bible
St. Jerome spent decades in a Bethlehem cave translating the entire Bible so ordinary people could finally read it themselves. Working from the original Hebrew rather than the easier Greek text, Jerome produced the Vulgate — the Latin Bible that shaped Catholic worship for over a thousand years....
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September 29: THE ARCHANGELS: Michael, Gabriel, and Raphael
The Archangels Michael, Gabriel, and Raphael are the only three angels named directly in Scripture — each sent on a different mission from God. Michael defended Heaven itself against Satan's rebellion, Gabriel announced to Mary that she would become the Mother of God, and Raphael secretly guided...
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September 28: ST. WENCESLAUS: Barefoot King in the Snow
St. Wenceslaus — the "Good King Wenceslas" of the Christmas carol — snuck out barefoot at night to give alms in secret. Raised in the faith by his grandmother Ludmila, who was later murdered for her influence over him, Duke Wenceslaus of Bohemia carried alms to the poor in the dark so no one…
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September 27: ST. VINCENT DE PAUL: A Confession That Changed Everything
One dying peasant's confession redirected St. Vincent de Paul's entire priesthood toward France's forgotten rural poor. After hearing a dying man's confession reveal sins hidden for years with no priest nearby, Vincent de Paul founded a community of priests to reach forgotten villages. With his...
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September 26: STS. COSMAS AND DAMIAN: Twin Brothers, Physicians for Christ
Twin brothers Sts. Cosmas and Damian healed the sick across the Roman Empire — and never once asked for payment. Trained physicians who believed their medical skill was a gift from God, Cosmas and Damian treated rich and poor alike for free, and their generosity drew many toward Christ. When...
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September 25: ST. SERGIUS OF RADONEZH: The Boy Who Couldn't Read
St. Sergius of Radonezh couldn't read a single word — until a mysterious stranger in a field changed everything. A boy who struggled painfully with his studies, Bartholomew was blessed by a mysterious elder who gave him holy bread — and he could read fluently from that day on. He took the name...
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September 24: ST. GERARD OF CSANÁD: Rerouted for Christ
A storm blew St. Gerard of Csanád off course toward the Holy Land — and sent him to Hungary instead, where he tutored a future saint. Bound for the Holy Land, Gerard's ship was forced ashore by a storm, and he ended up staying in Hungary as a missionary bishop instead, personally tutoring the boy...
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September 23: PADRE PIO: Marked by Christ
Padre Pio carried the actual wounds of Christ's Crucifixion in his own body for fifty years — and spent his life hearing confessions. In 1918, while deep in prayer, Padre Pio received the stigmata — real wounds matching Christ's Crucifixion that never healed for five decades. Embarrassed by the...
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September 22: ST. THOMAS OF VILLANOVA: Father of the Poor
St. Thomas of Villanova refused to decorate his own archbishop's residence — and sent the money to a hospital instead. Known since childhood for giving away his own clothes to poor children, Thomas became Archbishop of Valencia and lived out that same generosity on a much larger scale — selling…
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September 21: ST. MATTHEW: The Tax Collector Apostle
St. Matthew dropped his tax booth the instant Jesus said "Follow me" — then threw a party so his old friends could meet Him too. A tax collector despised by his own neighbors, Matthew left everything the moment Jesus called him, then hosted a banquet inviting his old crowd of "sinners" to meet...
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September 20: STS. ANDREW KIM & PAUL CHONG: Heroes of the Catholic Church in Korea
St. Andrew Kim, Korea's first native priest, was beheaded at 25 — two years after a layman's secret mission made his ordination possible. Paul Chong risked his life smuggling pleas to Church leaders in Beijing for priests to be sent to Korea's outlawed, hidden Catholics. His persistence led to...
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September 19: ST. EMILY DE RODAT: A School in One Small Room
St. Emily de Rodat turned her own small bedroom into a classroom after overhearing poor mothers worry about their daughters. Unsure of her calling for years, Emily overheard a group of poor women in 1815 worrying that their daughters had no one to teach them the faith — and opened her own room as…
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September 18: ST. JOSEPH OF CUPERTINO: The Flying Friar
St. Joseph of Cupertino, mocked as a boy for being slow, would later rise off the ground during Mass in front of stunned crowds. Dismissed by one religious order after another for struggling to keep up, Joseph barely passed his ordination exams — the bishop happened to test him on the one Bible...
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September 17: ST. ROBERT BELLARMINE: The Cardinal Who Wrote for Children
St. Robert Bellarmine was one of Europe's most brilliant cardinals — and he spent months writing a simple little book just for children. A theological genius trusted by popes, Robert Bellarmine noticed that ordinary people, especially children, had no simple way to learn the Catholic faith. So he...
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September 16: ST. CYPRIAN OF CARTHAGE: From Darkness to Light
St. Cyprian of Carthage left behind a wealthy lawyer's life in his thirties — and faced execution decades later without a trace of fear. Baptized as a grown man after years he later called spiritual darkness, Cyprian became bishop of Carthage and poured his wealth and skill into caring for the...
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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...
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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...
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September 13: JOHN CHRYSOSTOM: Glory to God for All Things
St. John Chrysostom, the "golden-mouthed" preacher, was exiled by an empress for telling the truth — and died still praising God. As archbishop of Constantinople, John's preaching demanded that wealthy Christians actually care for the poor outside their own church doors, which won him ordinary...
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September 12: ST. FRANCIS CHOE & BL. MARIA YI: United in Christ
St. Francis Choe risked his life recovering the bodies of Korea's martyrs — and his own martyred family raised Korea's second native priest. Married in secret amid Korea's brutal anti-Catholic persecution, Francis Choe and Maria Yi built a hidden Christian village and quietly passed their faith…
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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...
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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...
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September 9: ST. PETER CLAVER: A Slave of the Slaves Forever
St. Peter Claver climbed into slave ships in Cartagena harbor before almost anyone else dared go near them. For forty years, whenever a slave ship arrived in Cartagena, Colombia, Peter Claver was there — bringing food, water, and medical care, learning African languages so people could hear about...
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September 8: BL. FRÉDÉRIC OZANAM: Show Us Your Works
Blessed Frédéric Ozanam answered a college classmate's doubt about the Church not with an argument, but with his own winter firewood. Challenged by a classmate to show what the Catholic Church was actually doing for Paris' poor, young law student Frédéric gathered friends in 1833 to found what...
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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…
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September 6: BL. BERTRAND OF GARRIGUES: The Second Dominic
Blessed Bertrand of Garrigues walked barefoot beside St. Dominic, founding the Dominican order town by hungry town. One of St. Dominic's first companions, Bertrand gave up comfort entirely to live in radical poverty and preach the truth across a region swept up in heresy. He went on to govern the...
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September 5: MOTHER TERESA: Finding Jesus in the Distressing Disguise of the Poor
St. Teresa of Calcutta — Mother Teresa — heard God's call on a train to Darjeeling and never looked back. A teaching sister in Calcutta, Teresa felt a second, deeper call from Jesus on a train ride in 1946: to leave the convent and serve the poorest of the poor directly. Grounded every morning in...
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September 4: SAINT ROSALIA: Alone With Christ, Never Forgotten
St. Rosalia walked away from a noble Sicilian family to live alone in a cave — then saved a plague-stricken city five centuries later. Rosalia gave up wealth and an expected marriage to live hidden in a cave on Monte Pellegrino, seen by no one, known only to Christ, until her death around 1166....
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September 3: GREGORY THE GREAT: Faces Like Angels
Pope St. Gregory the Great gave up a life of power in Rome for prayer — then used the papacy to feed the hungry and send missionaries to Britain. Gregory walked away from his post as Prefect of Rome to become a monk, only to be called back and eventually elected pope in 590. As pope, he wouldn't...
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September 2: ST. INGRID OF SKÄNNINGE: Every Step a Prayer
St. Ingrid of Skänninge turned her grief as a young widow into pilgrimages all the way to Jerusalem and Rome. Widowed young, the Swedish noblewoman Ingrid began gathering with other women to pray, then set out walking — first to Santiago de Compostela, then to the Holy Land itself, then to Rome —...
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September 1: VEN. MARIE-JOSEPHTE FITZBACH: The Door That Always Opened
Venerable Marie-Josephte Fitzbach turned her own grief into an open door for women no one else in Quebec would take in. Widowed young, Marie-Josephte Fitzbach joined the Sisters of Charity of Quebec and spent her nights bringing her sorrows to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, asking who needed her...
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August 31: STS. JOSEPH OF ARIMATHEA AND NICODEMUS: Followers in the End
Two secret followers of Jesus — afraid their whole lives — finally stepped into the light at the foot of the Cross. Joseph of Arimathea and Nicodemus were powerful members of the Jewish council who believed in Jesus but kept it hidden out of fear. After Jesus died, something changed: Joseph…
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August 30: ST. JEANNE JUGAN: She Carried the Elderly Home
St. Jeanne Jugan carried a blind, forgotten old woman home in her own arms — and started a worldwide order. On a cold winter night in France, Jeanne Jugan carried an elderly, blind woman named Anne into her own home and gave her, her own bed. More elderly poor kept arriving, and Jeanne kept…
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August 29: STS. SABINA AND SERAPIA: The Slave Who Led Her Mistress to Heaven
A slave girl's quiet faith led her wealthy Roman mistress all the way to martyrdom — and to heaven. Serapia, a young Christian slave in ancient Rome, never preached to her mistress Sabina — she simply lived her faith so visibly that Sabina couldn't stop noticing, and eventually asked to be…
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August 28: ST. MOSES THE BLACK: From Bandit to Monk
St. Moses the Black led a gang of bandits through Egypt before becoming one of the desert's holiest monks. Once the leader of a feared robber gang along the Nile, Moses found peace he'd never known when he took refuge in a monastery and stayed. His conversion wasn't easy — he wrestled with anger...
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August 27: ST. MONICA: The Son of So Many Tears
St. Monica prayed and fasted for her wayward son for seventeen straight years — and never once gave up. St. Monica wept for years over her brilliant but faithless son, Augustine, who ran from God and from her — even sailing away from Africa in the night without saying goodbye. She followed him…
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August 26: ST. MARIAM BAOUARDY: The Little Nothing
St. Mariam Baouardy, an orphaned servant girl left for dead at thirteen, was nursed back to life by Our Lady herself. After refusing to renounce her Catholic faith, young Mariam Baouardy was attacked and left for dead in the streets of Alexandria — and woke in a cave, healed and cared for by a...
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August 25: ST. LOUIS, KING OF FRANCE: The Crown Worth More Than a Kingdom
St. Louis, King of France, once paid a fortune for Christ's Crown of Thorns — then carried it home barefoot himself. St. Louis IX ruled one of Europe's most powerful kingdoms while attending Mass twice daily and praying the full Liturgy of the Hours. When Christ's actual Crown of Thorns came up…
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August 24: ST. BARTHOLOMEW: Jesus Knew His Name
Before they ever met, Jesus already knew Bartholomew's heart — and told him so under a fig tree. St. Bartholomew was skeptical when his friend Philip told him they'd found the Messiah — until Jesus spoke first, revealing that He'd already seen Bartholomew before Philip ever called him.…
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August 23: ST. ROSE OF LIMA: The First Flower of the Americas
St. Rose of Lima wore a crown of roses hiding metal spikes — a secret gift of love to Jesus. The first saint born in the Americas, Rose of Lima spent hours each day in prayer in a tiny hermitage in her family's garden in Peru. She offered up every small suffering to Jesus, and personally cared…
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August 22: ST. ANDRÉ BESSETTE: God's Little Doorkeeper
St. André Bessette spent 40 years answering a college door in Montreal — and thousands came seeking a miracle. Orphaned and sickly as a child, André Bessette worked as the doorkeeper at Collège Notre-Dame for four decades, praying with the sick who came to him and pointing them to St. Joseph. So...
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August 21: ST. PIUS X: Come to the Table
If you made your First Communion at age seven or eight, then you have St. Pius X to thank! Born into poverty in Italy, St. Pius X became Pope and used his position to do something extraordinary for children: lowering the age for First Communion to around seven years old. Moved by the story of a...
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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 kids, with short episodes designed to plant one seed of faith each day in an easy, stress-free way.We cover topics such as Catholic Feast Days, Morality, Catholic Theology, the saints, and sacraments. We understand the challenges you face as a Catholic parent and create episodes that promote learning together, so you can discuss as a family and incorporate what you've learned into your lives. For free resources to support your family's faith journey, head to https://catholicsprouts.com
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