Hi, my name is Father Mike Schmitz, and you're listening to the Catechism in the Year podcast,

where we encounter God's plan of sheer goodness for us, revealed in Scripture, and passed down

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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. This is Day 148. We are reading paragraphs 1091 to 1098. 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. You can also download your own catechism in a year reading plan by visiting ascensionpress.com slash CIY. I recently just did this again. I lost mine. Well, I didn't lose it, lose it, but I kind of misplaced it. I'm sure I'll find it again and be able to check off with my blue marker. But I downloaded it again by going to

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a website. So go to ascensionpress.com slash CIY. You can also click follow or subscribe in your

podcast app for daily updates and daily notifications. It is, as I said, day 148. We are reading

paragraphs 1091 to 1098. You know,

yesterday we talked about how Jesus is present and Jesus is active in the sacraments in the

liturgy, right? Remember, the liturgy is God's work. It's our participation, the participation

of the people of God in the work of God. So we talked about how it comes from and is ordered

towards the Father. Then yesterday, here is Jesus Christ who is active and is present. Today, we talk about the Holy Spirit and the church in the liturgy. And a couple of things to keep in mind. You know, for the next maybe a couple days, we'll be talking about the role of the Holy Spirit when it comes to the liturgy. Because why? Because remember, what Jesus made possible, the Holy Spirit makes actual. So what Jesus made

possible by the pascal mystery, his death, their life, death, and resurrection. We talked about this

many, many times. The Holy Spirit makes actual, brings to us via the church through the sacraments.

And it's just so incredible, so incredible. And so we're going to highlight that today. In fact,

we're going to talk about how the sacraments are in paragraph 1091, God's masterpieces, which is just a, what a great name. I mean, we call them the seven sacraments. Yes, or the seven masterpieces of God, which is, again, I just think it's really beautiful going on to talk about this, that in paragraph 1092, in this sacramental dispensation,

right, that we live in this new age, the age of the church, Christ's mystery and the Holy Spirit

acts in the same way as at other times in the economy of salvation, which is just to think.

Okay, wait a second. How many times have you ever said, oh, I wish I was back in this age. I wish I was

in the age of Jesus, right? I wish I was around and close to Jesus when he was around.

And yet here is the catechism, which is affirming something we believe as Christians that because

of the sacraments, we are as close, if not closer to the Lord Jesus as at any other time in the economy of

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