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

Day 200: The Confession of Sins

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

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🗓️ 19 July 2023

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

When we confess our sins, we’re not telling God something he doesn’t know; we’re giving God access to something he doesn’t have: permission to heal our wounds. Today we learn why the act of confessing our sins is an essential part of the sacrament of Reconciliation. Fr. Mike also clarifies the difference between absolution, penance, and satisfaction. Today’s readings are Catechism paragraphs 1455-1460.

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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,

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where we encounter God's plan of sheer goodness for us, revealed in Scripture and passed down

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through the tradition of the Catholic faith. The Catechism in a Year is brought to you by Ascension.

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In 365 days, we'll read through the Catechism of the Catholic Church discovering our identity

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and God's family as we journey together toward our heavenly home. This is day 200 out of 365.

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Congratulations. We are reading paragraphs 14 to 55 to 1460. As always, I'm using the Ascension

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edition of the Catechism, which includes the foundations of faith approach. You can follow along

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with any recent version of the Catechism of the Catholic Church. You can also download your own

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Catechism in a Year reading plan by visiting AscensionPress.com slash C-I-Y for these last 165 days,

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and you can click follow or subscribe in your podcast after daily updates, daily notifications.

0:50.4

Also, quick thank you. It's been 200 days, 200 amazing, blessed, incredible days, and I cannot

0:55.9

begin to thank all the people who have prayed for each other, prayed for me, prayed for all of the

1:00.8

people who are producing this podcast, those who have offered financial gifts so we can keep

1:05.0

making this podcast for free. It honestly could not do this without you. Couldn't get today

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200, much less day 365 without you. Thank you so much. We have been talking about the sacrament

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of healing, sacrament of forgiveness, the sacrament of reconciliation. Yesterday, we talked about

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the acts of the penitent that we have to have contrition. We know there are two more acts of

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the penitent. Two more things that we all bring to confession. It's not only contrition that sorrow

1:27.7

for sins and a determination to resolve, to turn away from sin, but also, secondarily, the confession

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of sins. We actually have to disclose our sins and thirdly, satisfaction. At some point,

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we desire to make reparation. At some point, we recognize that our sin has cost something.

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And sometimes that thing is a physical thing. Sometimes it's a material thing, right? Where,

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