Hi, my name is 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 in a Year is 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 200 out of 365.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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