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.

It's always hard to say.

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 journey together toward our heavenly

home. This is day 144. We're on day two, actually second day of our second pillar of the

catechism. And the first pillar of the catechism, the creed, awesome, incredible. We

had to hear about what we believe about God and what that means

about us, the church, our salvation, everything. The second pillar is on worship. The second pillar

is on the sacraments. And to help me introduce pillar two, I have a very special guest with me,

Bishop Andrew Cousins of the Diocese of Crookston, Minnesota, Bishop Cousins. Thank you so much

for joining us.

Thank you. It's a delight to be with you, Father Mike. Are you familiar with the Catechism or the Catechism in here podcast? Yeah, I've been listening every day. And in fact, more than that, I got this

idea when I heard that you were going to do this, that I got a little catechism group. We got about 230 of us who are doing it every

day. That's awesome. I post a little reflection and other people put in their questions and comments,

and once a month we meet on Zoom to talk to talk it through. So I just thought this is a great

chance for those Catholics who really want to engage this and others too, to engage it together.

And I know for me, I know if I have to post something every day, it's

going to help me to keep going all 365 days. Keep that faithfulness consistently. You just know,

everyone, just keep pressing play. Speaking of pressing play on this day, this second, day 144, right,

it's kind of a longer episode. I remember my dad, who's also listening to the catechism. He said,

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