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Welcome back to Scattering Flowers with Elise and Miles, a podcast where you read the daily gospels and the saint of the day.
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Today is Wednesday, May 28th, and the gospel reading is John 16, 12 through 15.
And the scripture to reflect on is John 16, 13.
When the spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth.
For he will not speak on his own authority, but whatever he hears, he will speak, and he will declare to you the things that are to come.
This week at school, we had testing and I felt very overwhelmed.
At one point, I even complained and said, do I have to do this?
But it ended up not being very hard, and my mom and I were laughing about it, saying that I was stressed out for nothing.
The reason why I was able to laugh about it is because I have spent the whole school year learning and studying and getting wiser and smarter about the subjects that we studied and learned.
I guess you could say I have a deeper understanding of the things we studied.
Today’s saint of the day, St.
Madeline Sophie Barrett.
She was born December 13, 1779 and died May 25, 1865.
She’s the patron saint of teachers and schoolgirls.
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Madeline was born in 1779 and received an education from her brother, who was a seminarian.
She thrived and developed a genuine love of learning.
She later became a teacher and founded the Society of the Sacred Heart that focused on schools for the poor and a board dean school for young women.
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Madeline lived very bravely in the time of the French Revolution.
Her and her brother lived in hiding and opened the Society of the Sacred Heart and secrecy because of the war.
The phrase, he will guide you into all truth, is saying the Holy Spirit helps us have understanding of God’s truth, especially through reading the Bible daily.
It means the Spirit will help and guide us into knowledge and understanding of God’s will, just like my tests at school.
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Madeline once said, your example even more than your words will be an eloquent lesson to the world.
By opening students, she made it possible for other young women to get the high quality education that she received.
We can follow her example by sharing our blessings with others, of the knowledge and goodness of truth that we can learn about God when we study the Bible.
Let’s pray.
Name of Father and Son and Holy Spirit.
Dear God, thank you for the truth of the Bible and for Jesus.
Thank you for the Holy Spirit’s guidance.
And thank you for education for all teachers.
And thank you for giving us brains that we keep knowledge.
Amen.
In the name of the Father and Son and Holy Spirit.
Amen.
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We’ll be back tomorrow scattering more flowers.
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