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 your 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 Catechism of the Catholic Church, discovering our identity and God's family as we journeyed together toward our heavenly home. This is Day 100 in four. We're reading paragraphs 737 to 747 as always. I'm using the Ascension edition of the Catechism of the Catholic Church, which includes the foundations of faith approach. But of course, you can follow along with any recent version of the catechism of the Catholic Church. If you want to download your own catechism in the air reading plan for free, you can visit ascensionpress.com slash CIY. I mean, you've made it this far to day 104. Without it, maybe you have it like I have it. And I mark off every single day, a couple little checkmarks. I like those checkboxes. I don't know.. I don't know. I'm kind of a checkbox kind of a person. So you can get that catechism in your reading plan by visiting ascensionpress.com slash CIY. And lastly, you can. If you like, click follow or subscribe in your podcast app for daily updates and daily notifications. As I said, it is day 104. We're trucking right

along. I don't know. You guys, I always go back to this, but I just am so grateful. I'm so

grateful that we passed, you know, day 100, which is remarkable. In the Bible in a year,

day 100 was John chapter 6. It was the beginnings of John's Gospels. That was our first

messianic checkpoint. So it's kind of at that checkpoint where it's like, wow, okay, we're taking a little break and mixing it up a little bit. Now, we didn't do that now because we're just, you know, moving right on through the catechism. We are going to take, not a, not a break, but we're taking the next step tomorrow. Next, tomorrow, we're starting a new article. The new article is, I believe,

in the Holy Catholic Church. There's going to be some, I think, pretty remarkable things we're

going to teach about what is it that the church teaches about itself or herself. What does the

church teach about the church? Today, though, of course, in paragraphs 737 to 747, we're concluding this section on the Holy Spirit.

Now, obviously, the Holy Spirit is the soul of the church, right? The Holy Spirit is at the heart

of the church. It's the, it animates the church. And so we're not going to stop talking about the Holy

Spirit, just like when we left the section on Jesus. We didn't stop talking about Jesus or

the Father, et cetera. But there is just something so

powerful as we make our way into talking about the church tomorrow for the next number of days

that today's topic, you know, today's focus is the Holy Spirit and the church. You know, yesterday

we talked about Holy Spirit and Pentecost that, you know, the birthday of the church and that God's

gift of love, God's gift of love,

God's gift of reconciliation, forgiveness of sins, he restores us, he gives the first fruits,

enables us to be able to love like him. And now we're talking about the Holy Spirit specifically

as he relates to the church. Because we know this, right? Remember, we keep saying this and the church

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