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

your goodness for us revealed in scripture and passed down through the

tradition of the Catholic faith. The Catechism in years 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 to our heavenly home.

This is day 183, we're reading paragraphs 1341 to 1347.

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

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notifications because today is day 183.

We are continuing to talk about the great gift, the great sacrament of the Eucharist and the

fact that Jesus has given us this to do in

memory of him. That's what we're talking about, that Jesus has commanded us to

repeat his words and actions until he comes, which is not only ask us to remember what Jesus did, but to do it, to participate in it.

And that is what we're talking about today.

In fact, we're also going to talk about the fact that, huh, this is so cool. There's this extended kind of, I don't say quote. That quote is to kind of a

small of a word. It's a citation. It's a citation. That's what it is. It's a clip from a letter written by St Justin Martyr and St Justin was writing to the

pagan emperor Antoninus Pius around the year 155 explaining what Christians

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