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 203. We're reading paragraphs 1474 to 1484, taken our way all the way to the nuggets at the end of this section on reconciliation. 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 with the Catholic Church. You can also download your own catechism in a year reading plan by visiting ascensionpress.com slash CIY, and you can click follow or subscribe in your podcast app for daily updates and daily notifications. As I said, today is day 203, reading paragraphs 1474 to 1484. Today, we're going to talk about

some more stuff about the communion of saints and obtaining indulgences. We started indulgences yesterday.

We're also going to go through, like, what's the actual celebration of the sacrament of reconciliation,

the sacrament of penance? Like, what's the form? What's the matter? Like, what's going on during that

celebration of the sacrament of reconciliation? So two the matter? Like, what's going on during that celebration of the

Sacrament of Reconciliation? So two things here. Again, indulgences, finishing up indulgences,

and then how do we actually go to confession? How does that take place both here in the West,

as well as little kind of notes about how it might happen in other liturgies or other liturgical

traditions, not just the Latin right, but maybe

the Byzantine liturgy. We might have a little sprinkle of some flavor in there. So as we

launch into today, we just call upon God and just place ourselves in God's presence, knowing that

he is the Father of Mercies. He is the God of all goodness. And he is the one who forgives our sins

through his son in the power of the Holy Spirit. Let's pray. Father in heaven, we praise you and glorify your name. We thank you so much. Again, let our time begin with praise. Let Thanksgiving and praise go up first. Help us to praise you when we are thriving and when it's easy to forget you. Help us praise

you when we are struggling and it's difficult to see you. Lord God, help us to praise you when we need

your mercy and help us to praise you when we have received your mercy. Help us in this day to walk in

grace. Help us this day to recognize that we are not alone. We are surrounded by the great cloud of

witnesses, the church, and help us take that next step, whatever that next step is, to go closer and

to you and your sacred heart, your merciful heart. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen. In the name of the

Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, amen. It is day 203. We're reading paragraphs 1474 to 1484.

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