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

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 in God's family as we journey together toward our heavenly home. This is Day 184. We're reading paragraphs 1348 to 1355. As always, I'm reading from 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 but you can follow along with any recent version of the catechism at the Catholic Church. You can also download your own catechism in a year reading plan by visiting ascentiumpress.com slash C-I-Y. And lastly, you can click follow or subscribe in your podcast app for daily updates and daily notifications. This is the first full day that we are on the back end of the catechism, maybe just cresting the hill. If my math is correct, day 183, the middle of day 183, yesterday was the middle of the whole kit and caboodle. So here we are on day 184, you know, cresting the hill. It's great. And what we're going to talk about, obviously, well, if you've been listening, and most likely you've been listening, because why would you just jump in randomly at day 184 is all about the Eucharist.

You know, yesterday we talked about how Justin Martyr had written to non-Christians.

In fact, right, he wrote to the Roman emperor and he described, here is what Christians

do when they get together.

Here is how Christians worship their God.

We remember this, that the heart of religion is worship and the heart of worship is sacrificed. So today, we're going to talk about what is the movement of the celebration. It's going to be pretty familiar for every person who has been to Mass before. And if you're kind of familiar with the Mass, you'll say, oh, yeah, this is what happens when I go to Mass. And maybe you knew the names of these

things, these movements. Maybe you didn't know the name of these movements, but you're going to

know them by the end of the day today, because this is going to be review in many ways if you've lived

the Mass for your life. And it'll be new if you have not done that. So let's get started with a

prayer.

Father in heaven, we give you praise and glory.

We thank you for this day.

We thank you for the gift of your son as always.

Lord God, we can never thank you enough

for the gift of your son, Jesus Christ, our Lord.

For the gift of your Holy Spirit

that makes actual what your son has made possible.

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