Hi, my name's 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. 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. It is Day 150. We are reading paragraphs 1104 to 1112. As always, I am 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. The words are all in there. You can also download your own catechism into your reading plan by visiting ascensionpress.com slash CIY. You can also click follow or subscribe in your podcast app for daily updates and daily notifications. I know I have subscribed, so why don't you? Also, a little quick thank you to all those who have supported the production of this podcast with your prayers, with your financial gifts. Thank you so much. We could not do this without you. It is day 150. We were reading paragraphs, as I said, 1104 to 1112. Yesterday we talked about how the Holy Spirit recalls the mystery of Christ, especially here in that proclamation, right, in the proclamation of the Word of God, the explanation of the Word of God that elicits faith to the Word of God, right? We give that consent, we give our amen and a commitment. I also talked about an an an annesis yesterday, right, the remembrance. Today we're talking about epiclesis or epiclesis, I've heard it both ways, but we recognize that the Holy Spirit not only recalls the mystery of Christ and tells that story and brings it to us,

the Holy Spirit makes present the mystery of Christ. And this is absolutely of utmost importance.

In fact, I love, love paragraph 1104, where it says, the Christian liturgy not only recalls the events

that saved us, but actualizes them, makes them present.

And that's the thing that that is of absolute importance for us to understand,

is that we're not redoing the sacrifice of Jesus.

We are re-present to it.

We're representing the sacrifice that once for all, but we are there.

Why?

Because the Holy Spirit makes present the

mystery of Christ. So that's what we're talking about today, among some other things. So let's say

a prayer as we launch into today. Father in heaven, we praise your name and we give you glory. We thank

you so much for the gift of your son. We thank you for the gift of your love for us. We thank you for the love between

you and the Son. That is the Holy Spirit that has been poured out into our hearts. In this moment, Lord

God, we ask you to come and make your saving work present in our lives now in the liturgy, outside

the liturgy, in our lives, Lord our lives lord god by the power of your holy spirit

make present the reality of the son's life death and resurrection in everything that we do

let every part of our lives be conformed to you let every part of our lives be touched and transformed

by you we make this prayer in the

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