Hi, my name's 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 the years brought to you by ascension.

In 365 days, we'll read through the Catechism of the Catholic Church, discovering our identity in God's families. We journey together toward our heavenly home. This is day 206, reading paragraphs 1506 to 1513. As always, I am 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. I'm going fast this morning. Wow. You can also download your own catechism in your reading plan by visiting ascensionpress.com slash C-I-Y. And you can click follow or subscribe in your podcast app for daily updates and daily notifications today is day 206. We're reading paragraphs 15.06 to 1513. Yesterday we talked about illness and human life and the sick person before God,

how Jesus Christ is the physician.

And also today we're moving on that Jesus invites his disciples to follow him

by taking up their cross in their turn.

But also Jesus gives out in the Holy Spirit a special charism of healing. One of the reasons

for healing, the miracles, the mighty works, would often accompany the proclamation of the gospel.

That if someone comes along and says, you know, we talked about this before many times,

if Jesus himself comes along and says, I am God, people would say, well, okay, well, before I believe you, you need to prove it. So the healings are not only a sign of God's love and care for the poor, care for the sick, there are also signs that he is who he says he is. Similarly, he sends out his apostles, right, sends out his disciples and tells them to heal as well, not only as a sign of

his love and a sign of his care for all the people, but also as a sign that the message,

the message of the gospel is true. And so that's going to be one of the signs. And then we're

to talk today about the sacrament of the sick and how actually does the sacrament of the

anointing of the sick actually get played out?

Why I say played out? You know what I'm saying? How about how the sacrament of the anointing of the sick gets prayed out?

Ha ha. See what I did there? So let's, in order to enter into the reading for today, paragraphs 1506, 1513,

let us call upon our Heavenly Father in the name of Jesus Christ and pray in the

power of the Holy Spirit as we pray Father in heaven we love you and we know without a doubt that you

love us we know that whether you heal us or whether you are just present to us in the midst of our

pain midst of our suffering we know that you love us.

Lord God, for all the moments when it's difficult, difficult to acknowledge this, difficult to

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