Catholic Sprouts: Daily Podcast for Catholic Kids

Nancy Bandzuch

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 together, so you can discuss as a family and incorporate what you've learned into your lives. For free resources to support your family's faith journey, head to https://catholicsprouts.com

  1. 7h ago

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

    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

  2. 1d ago

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

    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

  3. 2d ago

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

    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

  4. 3d ago

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

    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

  5. 4d ago

    September 11: SERVANT OF GOD WILLIAM ATKINSON: Called Anyway

    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

  6. 5d ago

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

    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

  7. 6d ago

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

    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

  8. Sep 8

    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'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

See All (2K)

Hosts & Guests

4.8
out of 5
899 Ratings

About

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 together, so you can discuss as a family and incorporate what you've learned into your lives. For free resources to support your family's faith journey, head to https://catholicsprouts.com

Information

You Might Also Like