Day 199: The Sacrament of Forgiveness (2025)

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

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🗓️ 18 July 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Together, with Fr. Mike, we continue our examination of the sacrament of Reconciliation. Specifically, we explore the origins and structure of the sacrament that we use today. Fr. Mike emphasizes that although some of the ways we celebrate the sacrament of Reconciliation have changed, the essential elements have always remained the same. He also explores the importance of understanding the differences between perfect and imperfect contrition. Today’s readings are Catechism paragraphs 1446-1454.

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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Please note: The Catechism of the Catholic Church contains adult themes that may not be suitable for children - parental discretion is advised.

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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,
0:09.5	where we encounter God's plan of sheer goodness for us, revealed in scripture and passed down
0:13.5	through the tradition of the Catholic faith. The Catechism in a year is brought to you by
0:16.9	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 199. We are reading paragraphs 1446 to 1454. 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
0:39.9	plan by visiting ascensionpress.com slash CIY, and you can click follow or subscribe in your
0:44.9	podcast app for daily updates and daily notifications today. You guys, day one day away
0:50.7	from two bills and what an incredible day it is and what an incredible day it is.
0:55.9	Oh my gosh.
0:56.6	Here we go.
0:57.1	You know, today we're talking, we're continuing to talk about the sacrament of reconciliation.
1:00.9	And so we said yesterday noted how that sin, what sin is, it's above all offense against God.
1:06.6	And it's also rupture of communion with the church.
1:09.0	So only God can forgive sins yet through his
1:11.8	church, he offers us forgiveness. And so we're going to talk about today how this sacrament developed
1:16.6	over time, a little bit of that, because how we have it now, how we experience the sacrament
1:21.6	of reconciliation at this point in time is not exactly the way that it was celebrated even for
1:26.8	the first number of centuries in
1:28.8	Christianity. And so we're going to look at that. We're also going to look at what is it
1:33.0	that the fundamental structure. So some things have changed. Some you might say cosmetic things
1:38.4	have changed or maybe some practical things have changed, but the fundamental structure of
1:43.2	the sacrament of reconciliation has remained the same. And that's what the penitent does, you know, the person who's going to confession, and then what the Lord does through the church. That's remained the same. We're also going to look at today the beginning of the acts of the penitent. Again, so the penitent is the person going to confession. It requires that penitent does a couple
2:01.6	things, or has a couple things, and is moved by a couple things. One is contrition. We also have
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