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 a 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 201, day 201,

when we're reading paragraphs 1461 to 1467, 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

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and I think day 201 would be a great day to follow or subscribe or something like that

to receive daily updates and daily notifications in your podcast app today is day, as I said,

you know, yesterday we were talking about the fact we need confession of sins, we need

satisfaction, the three elements that we bring to confession are contrition, confession

and satisfaction.

And if we talked about that today, we're in a new little mini section in confession

on Sacrament of Reconciliation about the minister of the Sacrament, like, who is it?

That is the minister of reconciliation, who is the one who forgives us.

Now, we're going to hear this, that Jesus is the one who forgives sins, it's always Jesus.

But he forgives sins through the ministry, that's why the minister is there, the ministry

of the priests.

And we're going to talk about that today, that this is a gift that Jesus intended to give

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