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

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

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Also, you made it today 205. I've been reflecting on this kind of a lot lately, actually

even a little bit this morning, but yesterday for sure, just that sense of, oh my gosh,

the number of people here you are who just keep pressing play, that that sense of,

I've talked to somebody recently who said that, yeah, you know, you bring a lot of excitement to the, to the catechism in a year. Sometimes I'm wondering, like, what is you so excited about? I was like, yeah, I get it. Either sometimes there's a little bit, there might be some manic in that too in the in, in the non-clinical sense. But that sense of just, you know, here we are, here you are, pressing play, and taking that next step every single day, which is remarkable. You know, we just concluded yesterday, the sacrament of reconciliation, and now we're on to the second sacrament of healing, which is the anointing of the sick.

You might notice in your catechism, if you're following along, there are some words to know, the anointing of the sick, extreme unction, Vieticum. The anointing of the sick used to be called extreme unction. It's still, that term can still be used. It's not, that's not, it's not prohibited at all, but it was changed. I heard it was changed because, you know,

same with last rights. It was changed because the church is saying, no, this is, yes, I mean, yes, there are the last rights. There are those final rights of passing from this world to the next world, where you have that last Holy Communion, Vieticum, where you have that last anointing of the sick extreme unction. But you can also, I mean, this is a sacrament of healing that it doesn't always end in death. It sometimes actually grants life. And so we're going to talk about that today. In fact, where we're going to start talking about the sacrament of anointing of the sick is we're going to talk about the foundations of anointing of the sick or even Jesus is healing in the economy of salvation.

So in order to do that, we have to talk about the reality of illness and human life.

We're also going to talk about the sick person before God.

So what is it that happens?

What is it that sickness?

What is it that suffering does to us?

What is it that illness does to us?

As well as we're going to conclude today,

essentially, by reflecting a little bit on Christ the physician. So those are kind of our three movements today. The reality of illness in human life, who we are when we're sick, when we're

suffering before God, and what that does to us sometimes, as well as Jesus Christ, the physician.

So in order to prepare our hearts for this,

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