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

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Church discovering our identity and God's family as we journey together toward our heavenly home. This is day 145. Yesterday we had Bishop Cousins who joined us. Amazing. We're reading paragraphs 1066 to 1075. I'm using the Ascension edition of the Catechism when I read this, which includes and foundations of faith approach, but you can follow along with any recent version of the

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literally could not do this without you uh here we are day Day 145. Okay, we're talking about the liturgy. A couple things to keep in mind.

If you remember way back when we had this book called Dei Verbum, right? And everyone say,

who's Dave Earbum? I'm like, okay, well, maybe I need to enunciate a little bit better.

That's probably true. Today, we're introduced to a new document, okay, well, maybe I need to enunciate a little bit better. That's probably true.

Today, we're introduced to a new document. The new document's called Sacrosanctum Conchilium, right?

Sacrosanctum Conchilium is a document of the Second Vatican Council. A couple times today,

I'm going to reference that document because it really has guided the way in which the

catechism here, as has presented the sacraments.

Now, one of the things that we heard yesterday with Bishop Cousins is the beauty, the mystery,

just the way that sacraments impact our lives, like the way the liturgy impacts our lives.

And it's just incredible because we have this here, here is God who is so transcendent, right?

He is so other and right he is so other

and yet he reaches down to us and he comes to us in the liturgy comes to us in the sacraments

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