Catholic Sprouts: Daily Podcast for Catholic Kids

For All Souls Day, hear the story of Christina the Astonishing, the woman who saw purgatory and came back to pray for the holy souls.
Everyone believed Christina had died, until she sat up in the middle of her own funeral Mass. This All Souls Day episode helps children understand what purgatory is and why our prayers for those who have died truly matter. Christina spent the rest of her life offering prayer and penance for the souls she had seen.
"The story of Christina the Astonishing teaches us that God never gives up on us, even after death."
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Discover why All Saints Day belongs to every Catholic family, and why you are invited to this feast too.
On this Solemnity of All Saints, Sprouts travels to ancient Rome, where a pagan temple was turned into a church honoring God's holy ones. Your children will learn how the early Christians honored the holy dead, why the Church asks the saints to intercede for us, and how ordinary moms, dads, and grandparents fill the great crowd in heaven.
"The saints are not far away. They are close to us."
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St. Denis was beheaded by Roman soldiers on a hill outside Paris — then stood up, picked up his own head, and kept walking.
The first bishop of Paris, Denis, was martyred alongside his priest and deacon for refusing to deny Christ, and witnesses said he walked several miles afterward, preaching the whole way, before laying himself down at the spot he'd chosen for burial. His story is a fitting one for All Hallows' Eve, the night before the Church celebrates every saint in heaven — a reminder that the saints are near, and that nothing the world does is ever the last word.
 
"Not darkness winning, but light refusing to go out."
 
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St. Charles de Foucauld lived a life of wealth, adventure, and no faith at all — until a single confession changed everything in an afternoon.
A former cavalry officer who'd lost his faith completely, Charles walked into a Paris church wanting instruction, but the priest told him instead to kneel and make his confession. He went on to live among the poorest people in the Sahara Desert, learning their language and calling himself a universal brother, until he was killed at his hermitage in 1916.
"I would like to be so good that people would say: if this man is like this, what must his God be like?"
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Blessed Chiara Badano was sixteen and playing tennis when a sudden pain turned out to be bone cancer — and she chose to give it to Jesus.
An energetic Italian teenager active in the Focolare Movement, Chiara offered her illness to God from the very first moment of pain and refused painkillers so she could give her suffering to Jesus as fully as possible. She spent her final two years encouraging visitors from her hospital bed and planned her own funeral like a wedding, asking her parents to smile instead of cry.
"It's for you, Jesus. If you want it, I want it too."
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