Day 203: The Purpose of Indulgences (2024)

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

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🗓️ 21 July 2024

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Fr. Mike expands on the purpose of indulgences and clarifies why the Church has the authority to provide indulgences. We also learn about the role of the Communion of Saints in our strive for holiness and the different liturgical forms and elements of the Sacrament of Reconciliation. Today’s readings are Catechism paragraphs 1474-1484.

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
0:07.7	Catechism and Year podcast where we encounter God's plan of sheer
0:10.9	goodness for us revealed in scripture and passed down to the tradition
0:14.0	of the Catholic faith.
0:15.2	The Catechism in the year is brought to you by ascension.
0:17.2	In 365 days, we'll read through the Catechism of the Catholic Church discovering
0:21.2	our identity and God's family is we journey
0:23.4	toward our heavenly home this is day 203. We're reading paragraphs 1474 to 1484
0:28.8	taking our way all the way to the nuggets at the end of this section on
0:32.2	reconciliation as always I'm using the ascension to the nuggets at the end of this section on reconciliation.
0:33.4	As always, I'm using the Ascension Edition of the Catechism, which includes the Foundations
0:36.9	of Faith approach.
0:37.8	You can follow along with any recent version of the Catechism with the Catholic Church.
0:40.9	You can also download your own Catechism in a year reading plan
0:43.8	by visiting ascension press.com slash C IY and you can click follow or subscribe in your
0:48.2	podcast app for daily updates and daily notifications as I said today's day 203 reading paragraphs 1474 to 1484.
0:55.0	Today we're going to talk about some more stuff about the Communion of Saints and obtaining
0:59.2	indulgence as we started indulgences yesterday.
1:01.6	We're also going to go through like what's the actual
1:03.6	celebration of the sacrament of reconciliation, the sacrament of penance, like what's the form,
1:08.1	what's the matter, like what's going on during that
1:15.0	during that celebration of the sacrament of reconciliation. So two things here,
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