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 sure 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 in God's family as we journey together toward our heavenly home. It is Day 143. You guys, we have reached the end of Pillar 1, which is amazing. We're reading paragraphs 1051 to 1065. 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, you can also

download your own catechism into your reading plan by visiting ascensionpress.com slash CIY. And you could also, just a little quick reminder, you can click follow or subscribe in your podcast app for daily updates and daily notifications, unless you're the kind of person who likes to hunt for the podcast every day, in which case, it's kind of a little game you play. And when you found it, you found it. You win. Congratulations. Today's day, 143. Speaking of congratulations, what a milestone, we have concluded, we are concluding today, pillar one, the creed, which is, I think is pretty awesome. So congratulations, you guys. We're reading paragraphs 1051 to 1065. So 1051 starts out with nuggets, right? 1051 until 1060, those are all nuggets. So it's a little nugget day. But if you have your catechism in front of you, you'll see that after the nuggets. We have a last section from paragraphs 1061 to 1065 on the word amen. And so we're going to talk about what the word amen means. We're also

going to talk about not just what it means in itself, but also what it is when we say the word amen. Also, Jesus Christ himself is the amen. He is the definitive amen of the father's love for us. But before we go into the amen, we also have to talk about, as we noted, we talk about the nuggets. And the nuggets are all the way back to the fact that when we die, we are immediately judged.

We get heaven or hell or purified to enter it to heaven. And then there's that last day in which all the dead will rise and everything will be all in all in Jesus Christ and God, the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. You guys, as we launch into this day, let's say a prayer and just ask the Lord to come and meet us with His grace and with his truth and with His life. Father in heaven, we thank you so much. We give you praise and glory. Thank you for bringing us here to this day. Thank you for bringing us here to this moment. Thank you for bringing us here all the way through pillar one. We ask that you please, as we prepare ourselves for our death, as we prepare ourselves

to give you our ultimate and final amen, that we trust in your amen. You're amen of faithfulness,

our amen of belief, but you're amen of faithfulness, that we can trust who you are because you are

the God of the amen. You are the God of truth. You are the God

who is faithful. And so as we once again reflect on these nuggets of what it is to die in you, Jesus Christ,

we ask that you please come and meet us because you Christ are the Father's definitive amen.

You're the Father's definitive word. You're the Father's definitive word. You're the Father's

definitive truth. Help us to give our amen to you. In Jesus' name we pray. In the name of the

Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, amen. As I said, it's day 143. We are reading paragraphs

151 to 1065.

In brief,

Every man receives his eternal recompense in his immortal soul from the moment of his death in a particular judgment by Christ, the judge of the living and the dead.

As Pope Paul VI stated,

We believe that the souls of all who die in Christ's grace are the people of God beyond death.

On the day of resurrection, death will be definitively conquered when these souls will be reunited with their bodies.

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