Day 198: Reconciliation with God (2025)

The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz)

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🗓️ 17 July 2025

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Summary

We continue our examination of the sacrament of Penance and Reconciliation. Fr. Mike emphasizes that sin, above all else, is an offense against God and his Church. It damages our communion with both. He also unpacks how important it is that God has extended his ability to forgive sins to his apostles and their successors. Today’s readings are Catechism paragraphs 1440-1445.

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 Eyer podcast, where we
0:09.5	encounter God's plan of sheer goodness for us, revealed in scripture, and passed it down through
0:13.8	the tradition of the Catholic faith. The Catechism in E. is brought to you by Ascension.
0:17.9	In 365 days, we'll read to the Catechism of the Catholic Church discovering our identity in God's family as we journeyed together toward our heavenly home. This is day 198. You guys were reading paragraph 1440 to 1445. As always, 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 Catechism of the Catholic Church. You can also download your own catechism in a year reading plan by visiting ascensionpress.com
0:41.7	slash cI. And you can also click follow or subscribe to your podcast app for daily updates
0:48.1	and daily notifications today. It's day 198. 200 is right around the corner. We reading paragraphs 1440 to 1445. What we're going to talk about today? We talked about penance, conversion for the last couple of days. Today we're talking about the actual sacrament of penance and reconciliation. And so it's just only a couple paragraphs, right? 1440 to 1445. Well, tomorrow and the following days, we'll talk about, okay, how, where did the sacrament following days we'll talk about okay how where did the
1:12.1	sacrament come or we'll talk about today where it comes from but how did it develop over the
1:17.0	course of the years and and what does a person do when it comes to confession that's coming up in
1:20.8	in the future tomorrow the next day the next day today we're just going to talk about okay what is sin
1:26.4	only god forgives sins. And that when he
1:30.9	reconciles us, when he forgives us, he brings us back to his heart, but he also brings us
1:35.4	reconciliation with the church. Now we're going to talk about that today. So let's just call upon our
1:40.8	father, call up in Jesus' name and pray and prop the Holy Spirit.
1:49.9	Father in heaven, we give you praise and we thank you. We thank you for the fact that while we wander away from you, while we sin, while we say no to you, you never say no to us. You never
1:55.4	reject us. You never stop calling us back to your heart. You never stop calling us back to your heart.
2:02.4	You never stop loving us.
2:05.1	You always want us to receive your forgiveness.
2:08.5	You always want to receive us back into your heart.
2:13.5	Help us.
2:14.1	Help us to in our sins to never stay away for long, to never stay far from you.
2:19.1	But in our sin, we ask that you please break through with the power of your spirit.
2:24.7	Break through with your voice of grace, your voice that calls us home, that calls us back to you.
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