Day 191: The Eucharist Changes Us (2025)
The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz)
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🗓️ 10 July 2025
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Summary
As the popular adage goes, “you are what you eat.” The Catechism tells us that, as food nourishes the body, so Jesus present in Holy Communion nourishes the soul. It especially highlights the Eucharist’s role in separating us from sin. Fr. Mike reminds us we must be open to change if Jesus is going to change us in the reception of Holy Communion. If—to use Fr. Mike’s analogy—Holy Communion is a “shower” of graces, we must ensure that we’re not wearing a raincoat. Today’s readings are Catechism paragraphs 1391-1395.
This episode has been found to be in conformity with the Catechism by the Institute on the Catechism, under the Subcommittee on the Catechism, USCCB.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, my name is Father Mike Schmitz, and you're listening to the Catechism in a Year podcast, |
| 0:09.2 | where we encounter God's plan of sheer goodness for us, revealed in scripture, and passed |
| 0:12.9 | down through the tradition of the Catholic faith. The Catechism in a year is brought to you by |
| 0:16.6 | Ascension. In 365 days, we'll read through the Catechism of the Catholic Church discovering |
| 0:21.4 | our identity and God's family as we journey together toward a heavenly home. This is Day |
| 0:25.1 | 1091. We are reading paragraphs 1391 to 1395. Just a few short paragraphs today. As always, |
| 0:31.4 | I'm using the Ascension edition of the Catechism, which includes the foundations of faith approach. |
| 0:35.1 | If 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 |
| 0:40.6 | plan by visiting ascensionpress.com slash CIY. And you can also click follow or subscribe |
| 0:45.1 | on your podcast app for daily updates and daily notifications. Today is day 191. We're reading |
| 0:49.5 | paragraphs, as I said already, 1391 to 1395, we can sometimes forget what is it that happens to us when we |
| 0:56.8 | receive Holy Communion? Like what are the fruits of Holy Communion? That's what we're talking about today, |
| 1:00.4 | the fruits of Holy Communion, because what happens to us, what happens in us, kind of like we talked |
| 1:04.8 | about the five effects of confirmation, that sometimes it's really helpful to spell out, |
| 1:09.7 | it roots us more deeply as |
| 1:11.2 | sons and daughters of God the Father, roots us more deeply, unites us more closely to Christ, |
| 1:15.2 | we become even more filled with the gifts of the Holy Spirit, et cetera, et cetera, right? |
| 1:18.8 | Well, it's also worth knowing and noting what happens when we receive Holy Communion. |
| 1:23.7 | Well, we're going to hear today that it not only strengthens and augments our union with |
| 1:28.5 | Christ and also separates us from sin. It wipes away venial sins and also preserves us from future |
| 1:34.1 | mortal sins. We're talking about that. Tomorrow we're talking about even more things that it does. |
| 1:37.8 | But today as we launch into this day of just these few short paragraphs, we just get to open |
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