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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 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...
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Welcome back to the Catholic Sproust podcast, where we know that every day is a feast day. It's September 8th, so join us for Blessed Frederick Ozzinam and show us your works. The room was loud with argument. Frederick, a young university student in Paris, sat surrounded by classmates who were busily mocking his Catholic faith with sharp words.
One of them leaned forward with a challenge that cut deeper than the rest. What is your church doing now? What is she doing for the poor in Paris? Show us your works and we will believe, he said to Frederick. Frederick had no clever answer ready for this. And in fact, he left that day determined to use his own two hands to show that the church was indeed at work serving the poor.
Welcome back Sprouts. Today is September 8th, the anniversary of the death of Blessed Frederick Ozenam, a young man who turned a hard question into a mission that's still helping the poor all over the world today. Stay tuned to find out what he did with that challenge. Frederick lived in France in the early 1800s at a time when Paris was bursting with new,
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