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 204. We're reading paragraphs 1485 to 1498 Nuggets. And as always, I'm using the Ascension edition of the Catechism, which includes the foundations of faith approach. But you can follow along with any recent version of the Catechism of 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. Today, as I said, is Nuggett today from 1485 all the way to 1498. We have nothing

but Nuggets today. It is truly the whole chicken.

So we've been talking about the sacrament of reconciliation, the sacrament of penance, the sacrament

of confession for the last number of days. Today's our final day before we launch in tomorrow

to the anointing of the sick, the other sacrament of healing. And so as we do this recap, as we do

this nugget review, let's just take a moment and call upon the Lord. We of healing. And so as we do this recap, as we do this Nugget review,

let's just take a moment and call upon the Lord. We know this. We know the goodness, the truth,

we know the beauty and the grace of God's forgiveness that comes to us in reconciliation,

that sacrament. And so let's just let this be a review. And let this be a thing that not only

illuminates our mind, but touches the depths of our hearts

and actually even moves us by God's grace to surrender ourselves and to submit our sins to the Lord

to be forgiven. Let's pray now. Father in heaven, we give you praise and glory. We thank you.

We thank you for your love, your unstoppable and unfailing love. We thank you for your mercy that meets us in our misery.

Lord God, we have mercenary hearts and you have a merciful heart. And we ask that you please meet us in our brokenness and meet us even in our resistance to grace, whether that resistance be

anger or frustration, whether that resistance be self-condemnation or embarrassment, if that

resistance is shame or is anger, Lord God ask you to please meet every one of us wherever we are

and bring us to your mercy, bring us to wherever we are and bring us to your mercy,

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