Hi, my name is Father Mike Schmitz, and you're listening to the Catechism in a Year podcast,

where we encounter God's plan of sheer goodness for us, revealed in scripture, and passed down

through the tradition of the Catholic faith. The Catechism in a Year is brought to you by

Ascension. In 365 days, we'll read through the entire Catechism of the Catholic Church,

discovering our identity and God's family as we journey together toward our heavenly home.

This is Day 1.

You guys, welcome.

This has a few reminders before we get started.

I'm using the Ascension edition of the Catechism, which includes the

foundations of faith approach, but you can follow along with any recent version of the Catechism

of the Catholic Church. It's going to be, you know, word for word. We're good there. You can

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That seems like something that, I don't know, it's worth saying. So I'll say it today. So today

we'll be reading on day one. Gosh, you guys, here we go. There is this thing called the prologue

at the very beginning of the catechism. It's 25 paragraphs long. Paragraphs aren't like massively long,

but they're just, you know, kind of bullet points. Well, you'll get the gist if you don't have

the catechism in front of you. Essentially, the prologue is 25 paragraphs long. And it basically,

it's kind of like syllabus day. I feel like today is like syllabus day, today and tomorrow. So today we're reading paragraphs 1 through 10, and then tomorrow we'll read the remaining

paragraphs.

But it kind of like gives a lay of the land.

But it's not just syllabus day.

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