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Catholic Sprouts: Daily Podcast for Catholic Kids

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

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September 16: ST. CYPRIAN OF CARTHAGE: From Darkness...

Catholic Sprouts: Daily Podcast for Catholic Kids ·

2026/09/16

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 poor. When persecution finally caught up with him, he refused to deny Christ and met his death sentence with total peace. "Thanks be to God." Want to keep living Cyprian's story after the episode ends? Grab

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September 15: OUR LADY OF SORROWS: She Did Not Look Away

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2026/09/15

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

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September 14: THE EXALTATION OF THE CROSS: Too Heavy...

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2026/09/14

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

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September 13: JOHN CHRYSOSTOM: Glory to God for All...

Catholic Sprouts: Daily Podcast for Catholic Kids ·

2026/09/13

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 crowds and powerful enemies alike. Exiled for criticizing the empress, he died on the road in 407, his last words full of peace rather than bitterness. "Glory be to God for all things." Want to keep living

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September 12: ST. FRANCIS CHOE & BL. MARIA YI: United...

Catholic Sprouts: Daily Podcast for Catholic Kids ·

2026/09/12

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 to their children by lamplight. Both parents were martyred in 1839, but their son went on to become the second Korean-born Catholic priest in history. "Faith, once truly planted, doesn't stay buried." Today's

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September 11: SERVANT OF GOD WILLIAM ATKINSON: Called...

Catholic Sprouts: Daily Podcast for Catholic Kids ·

2026/09/11

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

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September 10: VEN. IGNACIA DEL ESPÍRITU SANTO: A...

Catholic Sprouts: Daily Podcast for Catholic Kids ·

2026/09/10

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

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September 9: ST. PETER CLAVER: A Slave of the Slaves...

Catholic Sprouts: Daily Podcast for Catholic Kids ·

2026/09/09

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 God's love in their own tongue, and baptizing an estimated 300,000 people over his lifetime. "Peter Claver, servant of the Africans forever." Today's challenge is just the start. Grab our free Family Pack —

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September 8: BL. FRÉDÉRIC OZANAM: Show Us Your Works

Catholic Sprouts: Daily Podcast for Catholic Kids ·

2026/09/08

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 became the Society of St. Vincent de Paul. His first act of charity was simple: giving his own firewood to a freezing widow, in person, face to face. "He had two hands, and a choice about what to do with

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September 7: ST. REGINA: A Queen Who Chose Heaven

Catholic Sprouts: Daily Podcast for Catholic Kids ·

2026/09/07

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

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September 6: BL. BERTRAND OF GARRIGUES: The Second...

Catholic Sprouts: Daily Podcast for Catholic Kids ·

2026/09/06

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 Dominicans' first house in Paris and later serve as provincial of Provence, but he never stopped going out to preach himself — he died doing exactly that. "Bertrand kept walking beside Dominic anyway,

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September 5: MOTHER TERESA: Finding Jesus in the...

Catholic Sprouts: Daily Podcast for Catholic Kids ·

2026/09/05

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 an hour of Eucharistic Adoration and daily Mass, she and her sisters carried the dying off the streets of Calcutta so no one would die unloved and alone. "I THIRST." Mother Teresa's challenge doesn't have

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September 4: SAINT ROSALIA: Alone With Christ, Never...

Catholic Sprouts: Daily Podcast for Catholic Kids ·

2026/09/04

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. Nearly 500 years later, in 1624, her relics were discovered and carried through plague-stricken Palermo in procession — and the plague stopped. "I, Rosalia, daughter of Sinibald, Lord of Monte delle Rose, and

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September 3: GREGORY THE GREAT: Faces Like Angels

Catholic Sprouts: Daily Podcast for Catholic Kids ·

2026/09/03

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 sit down to eat until Rome's hungry were fed first — and he never forgot a group of enslaved boys he'd once seen in the Forum, eventually sending missionaries across the sea to bring them, and all of

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September 2: ST. INGRID OF SKÄNNINGE: Every Step a...

Catholic Sprouts: Daily Podcast for Catholic Kids ·

2026/09/02

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 — offering every hard mile to God. When she came home to Skänninge, she turned that same devotion into a Dominican convent built entirely around a shared life of prayer. "Holiness isn't something you find

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September 1: VEN. MARIE-JOSEPHTE FITZBACH: The Door...

Catholic Sprouts: Daily Podcast for Catholic Kids ·

2026/09/01

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 most. The answer was always the same: women just out of prison, with nowhere else to turn. She opened a refuge called Sainte-Madeleine, refusing to ask anyone to prove they deserved help first, and eventually

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August 31: STS. JOSEPH OF ARIMATHEA AND NICODEMUS:...

Catholic Sprouts: Daily Podcast for Catholic Kids ·

2026/08/31

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 boldly asked Pontius Pilate for Jesus's body, and together the two men wrapped Him in linen and spices and laid Him in Joseph's own tomb — the first public, costly act of faith either man had ever made

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August 30: ST. JEANNE JUGAN: She Carried the Elderly...

Catholic Sprouts: Daily Podcast for Catholic Kids ·

2026/08/30

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 making room — begging door to door for whatever they needed. Though a priest later took credit for founding her congregation and pushed her aside for the rest of her life, the Little Sisters of the Poor she truly

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August 29: STS. SABINA AND SERAPIA: The Slave Who Led...

Catholic Sprouts: Daily Podcast for Catholic Kids ·

2026/08/29

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 baptized herself. When Serapia was arrested and martyred for her faith, Sabina stepped forward publicly as a Christian too, choosing martyrdom rather than staying safely silent. "The slave went first. The mistress

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August 28: ST. MOSES THE BLACK: From Bandit to Monk

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2026/08/28

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 and pride for years — but he became one of the great teachers of the desert, known for radical humility about his own past even as a priest and elder. "My sins are running out behind me, and I have come to

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