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 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 toward our heavenly home this is day 188 we're reading paragraphs

1373 to 1377 as always I am using the Ascension Edition of the Catechism which

includes the Foundations of Faith

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because today, as I said, it's day 188,

we were in paragraphs 1373 to 1377.

We were talking about the real presence of Jesus Christ in the

Eucharist which is remarkable not for not only for its own sake but also because

you know I didn't read ahead yesterday but I was talking about trans

substantiation yesterday,

and so it gave you a little sneak pink, little heads up into what we're going to read today.

It is a miracle that's akin, I don't know, I was going to say akin to the incarnation, but it really is that at every

mass in every tabernacle around the world, bread and wine become truly, really, and substantially the body and blood soul and

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