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 shared goodness for us, revealed in scripture, and passed down

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In 365 days, we'll read through the Catechism of the Catholic Church, discovering our identity and God's families. We journeyed together toward our heavenly home. This is Day 102. We're reading paragraphs 721 to 730. As always, 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. I'm also, well, you also could download your Gaticism in your reading plan by visiting ascensionpress.com slash CIY. And you can also click follow or subscribe in your podcast app for daily updates. And daily notifications, as I said, it's day 102. We're reading paragraphs 721 to 730. Two of the things here to keep in mind is paragraph 721 to 726 is all about our

ladies. So remember, we've been following the Holy Spirit, the working of the Holy Spirit in the

economy of salvation. And so we're going to talk about in like, I don't know, six paragraphs,

the working of the Holy Spirit with regard to the Blessed Virgin Mary. And then we're going to talk

about Jesus.

So there are four paragraphs on Christ.

What I mean by that is we're going to show how, or the Catechism, is going to dive into how does the Holy Spirit interact with our lady?

And then how do Jesus, the second person of the Trinity, the Word of God, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.

How did the Son and the

Holy Spirit, I don't want to say team up? Back in the day, there was a thing called World's Finest Comics, and that was when Batman and Superman teamed up. This is not the same. It's better. It's the mission of the Son and the Holy Spirit in the fullness of time is contained in this. this is paragraph 727. The entire mission of the sun and the Holy Spirit in the fullness of time is contained in this. This is paragraph 727.

The entire mission of the Son and the Holy Spirit in the fullness of time is contained in

this, that the Son is the one anointed by the Father's Spirit since his incarnation. Jesus is

the Christ, the Messiah. And everything, this is crazy because this is setting us up for the rest

of the section of the Creed, everything in the second chapter of the Creed is to be read in this light. In what light? In the rest of the section of the creed everything in the second chapter of the creed is to be read

in this light in what light in the light of the fact that christ's whole work is in fact a joint

mission of the sun and the holy spirit i don't know if you've ever thought about that but this is that

it's kind of a critical paragraph here that we're going to hear today that that Christ's whole work is in fact a joint

mission of the Son and the Holy Spirit. Now, you might think, well, wait, we covered that already

because we kind of did. What the Catechism is doing right now is kind of underscoring,

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