Catholic Sprouts: Daily Podcast for Catholic Kids

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  September 16: ST. CYPRIAN OF CARTHAGE: From Darkness to Light 16.09.2026 6min

  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 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  
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  September 15: OUR LADY OF SORROWS: She Did Not Look Away 15.09.2026 5min

  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  
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  September 14: THE EXALTATION OF THE CROSS: Too Heavy for a Crown 14.09.2026 7min

  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    
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  September 13: JOHN CHRYSOSTOM: Glory to God for All Things 13.09.2026 6min

  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 John'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    
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  September 12: ST. FRANCIS CHOE & BL. MARIA YI: United in Christ 12.09.2026 6min

  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 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  
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  September 11: SERVANT OF GOD WILLIAM ATKINSON: Called Anyway 11.09.2026 5min

  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  
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  September 10: VEN. IGNACIA DEL ESPÍRITU SANTO: A Needle and a Pair of Scissors 10.09.2026 6min

  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  
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  September 9: ST. PETER CLAVER: A Slave of the Slaves Forever 09.09.2026 6min

  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 — 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  
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  September 8: BL. FRÉDÉRIC OZANAM: Show Us Your Works 08.09.2026 6min

  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 them." Frédéric'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  
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  September 7: ST. REGINA: A Queen Who Chose Heaven 07.09.2026 5min

  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  
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  September 6: BL. BERTRAND OF GARRIGUES: The Second Dominic 06.09.2026 6min

  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, because he believed the souls in front of him were worth every mile." 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  
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  September 5: MOTHER TERESA: Finding Jesus in the Distressing Disguise of the Poor 05.09.2026 6min

  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 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    
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  September 4: SAINT ROSALIA: Alone With Christ, Never Forgotten 04.09.2026 6min

  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 Quisquina, have taken the resolution to live in this cave for the love of my Lord, Jesus Christ." Want to keep living Rosalia'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  
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  September 3: GREGORY THE GREAT: Faces Like Angels 03.09.2026 7min

  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 Britain, the Catholic faith. "Who are these boys, and where do they come from?" 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  
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  September 2: ST. INGRID OF SKÄNNINGE: Every Step a Prayer 02.09.2026 6min

  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 alone in a corner — it's something you walk toward, often side by side with others." Ingrid'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  
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  September 1: VEN. MARIE-JOSEPHTE FITZBACH: The Door That Always Opened 01.09.2026 7min

  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 founded a whole new religious community to keep the door open. "Every woman who walked through her door, Marie-Josephte believed, was Christ arriving in disguise." Want to keep living Marie-Josephte'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  
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  August 31: STS. JOSEPH OF ARIMATHEA AND NICODEMUS: Followers in the End 31.08.2026 6min

  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. "Something broke open inside them." ⭐Want to keep living Joseph and Nicodemus's story after the episode ends?  Grab our free Every Day's a Feast Day calendar and get every saint and every challenge delivered, so your family can follow along together: https://shop.catholicsprouts.com/pages/every-days-a-feast-day-follow-along  
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  August 30: ST. JEANNE JUGAN: She Carried the Elderly Home 30.08.2026 7min

  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 started now serve in more than thirty countries. "She called what she did simply 'making room.'" ⭐Today's challenge is just the start.  Get the free Every Day's a Feast Day calendar and walk with a new saint every single day: https://shop.catholicsprouts.com/pages/every-days-a-feast-day-follow-along  
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  August 29: STS. SABINA AND SERAPIA: The Slave Who Led Her Mistress to Heaven 29.08.2026 6min

  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 followed." ⭐Following Sts. Sabina and Serapia's example doesn't have to end when the episode does.  Grab our free Every Day's a Feast Day calendar — a saint and a challenge for every day, right at home: https://shop.catholicsprouts.com/pages/every-days-a-feast-day-follow-along  
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  August 28: ST. MOSES THE BLACK: From Bandit to Monk 28.08.2026 7min

  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 judge the sins of another?" ⭐Want to keep living St. Moses's story after the episode ends?  Grab our free Every Day's a Feast Day calendar and get every saint and every challenge delivered, so your family can follow along together: https://shop.catholicsprouts.com/pages/every-days-a-feast-day-follow-along