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

Day 203: The Purpose of Indulgences

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

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🗓️ 22 July 2023

⏱️ 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.

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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 Catechism in the Year Podcast,

0:09.2

where we encounter God's plan of sheer goodness for us, revealed in Scripture and passed down

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to the tradition of the Catholic faith. The Catechism in the Year is brought to you by Ascension.

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In 365 days, we'll read through the Catechism of the Catholic Church, discovering our identity

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and God's family as we journey together toward our heavenly home this is day 203. We're reading

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paragraphs 1474 to 1484, taken our way all the way to the nuggets at the end of this

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section on reconciliation. As always, I'm using the Ascension edition of the Catechism,

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which includes the foundations of faith approach. You can follow along with any recent version of

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the Catechism with the Catholic Church. You can also download your own Catechism in a year reading plan

0:43.7

by visiting AscensionPress.com slash C-I-Y. And you can click follow or subscribe

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on your podcast app for daily updates and daily notifications. As I said, today is day 203,

0:52.2

reading paragraphs 1474 to 1484. Today, we're going to talk about some more stuff,

0:57.3

about the communion of saints and obtaining indulgences. We started indulgences yesterday,

1:01.6

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

1:05.9

the sacrament of penance? What's the form? What's the matter? What's going on during that celebration

1:11.2

of the sacrament of reconciliation? So two things here, again, indulgences, finishing up indulgences,

1:16.2

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

1:21.6

little kind of notes about how it might happen in other liturgies or other liturgical traditions,

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not just the Latin, right, but maybe the Byzantine liturgy. We might have a little sprinkle of some

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flavor in there. So as we launch into today, we just call upon God and just place ourselves

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in God's presence, knowing that he is the father of mercies. He is the God of all goodness,

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and he is the one who forgives our sins through his son in the power of the Holy Spirit. Let's pray.

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