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 it down

through the tradition of the Catholic faith. The Catechism in a year is brought to by Ascension.

In 365 days, we'll read through the Catechism of the Catholic

Church discovering our identity and God's family as we journeyed together toward our heavenly home.

This is day 165. We were reading paragraphs 204 to 1209. Those last little bits are nuggets.

And also, as you probably know, 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, which includes the foundations of faith approach,

but you can follow along with any recent version of the Catechism of the Catholic Church.

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On one thing, I know people are like, why do you always say the same thing every time? What do you have to tell us that it's the ascension edition of the catacism? Why do you have to tell us that we can get the catacism into your reading plan? It's kind of like, you know, I don't know if you've ever watched a TV show. And sometimes they have the opening credits. It's always the same. Kind of like that. You know, just this is the intro. You're like, how come you keep having the intro? This show has been on air for

eight seasons. Why do you keep doing the opening credits? And the answer is because that's how you start

things. And also, what a great thing, streaming services, what do they have, the ability to skip the

intro, skip the opening credits? You know what you can do. You can click, you know, fast forward,

jump it ahead 30 seconds and then

jump over all that stuff it's right there also I want to thank everybody uh anybody who's

supported the production of this podcast with prayers and financial gifts could not do this without

you we made it all the way to day 165 we're reading paragraphs paragraphs 1204 to 1209. Those last three paragraphs are

nuggets, and the first three paragraphs are not nuggets. They're about liturgy and culture,

which is, here is the culture. And culture is taken into account. Whenever the church encounters

culture, it always takes that, that culture into account and incorporates the culture in a unique

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