Day 202: How Confession Heals (2024)
The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz)
Ascension
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🗓️ 20 July 2024
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
What happens to us when we go to Confession? Fr. Mike explains the powerful ways the Sacrament of Reconciliation spiritually restores and perfects us. We also learn about the eternal and temporal consequences of sin, and finally, Fr. Mike discusses the four aspects to an indulgence and how these aspects require our cooperation with God's grace. Today’s readings are Catechism paragraphs 1468-1473.
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 |
| 0:07.8 | Catechism in a year podcast where we encounter God's plan of sheer |
| 0:11.0 | goodness for us revealed in scripture and passed down through the |
| 0:13.4 | tradition of the Catholic faith, the Catechism in years brought to you by ascension. |
| 0:17.1 | In 365 days we'll read through the Catechism of the Catholic Church discovering |
| 0:21.0 | our identity in God's family. |
| 0:22.8 | As we journey together toward our heavenly home, this is day 202. |
| 0:26.0 | We're in paragraphs 1468 to 1473, as always I'm using the Ascension Edition of the |
| 0:30.6 | Catechism, which includes the foundations of faith approach but you can |
| 0:33.4 | follow along with any recent version of the Catechism of the Catholic Church. |
| 0:36.4 | You can also download your own Catechism in a year reading plan by visiting |
| 0:39.8 | Ascension Press.com slash C IY and you can click follow or subscribe in your |
| 0:43.8 | podcast app for daily updates and daily notifications comes right to your I don't know what |
| 0:47.5 | it comes right to come right to your app I think so something like that today is |
| 0:50.2 | day 202 1468 1473 you guys we get to talk about the effects of the |
| 0:54.6 | sacrament of reconciliation yesterday we talked with the minister of the |
| 0:58.1 | sacrament of reconciliation and the great dignity the great responsibility that is |
| 1:02.3 | placed upon the priest who is working by extension of the bishop. |
| 1:05.9 | Yet today we get to talk about the effects of this sacrament. What happens when we go to confession? |
| 1:11.2 | And not only do we experience forgiveness of course mercy of course |
| 1:14.1 | it reconciles us with the church and also it's an anticipation I love this it's an |
| 1:18.2 | anticipation in a certain way of the judgment to which we all will be subjected at the end of our earthly lives. |
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