Hi, my name is Father Mike Schmitz, and you're listening to The Catechism in a Year podcast,

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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 207. We're reading paragraphs 1514 to 1519. As always, I'm using the Ascension edition of the Catechism, which includes a 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 ascentiumpress.com slash CIY, and you can also click follow or subscribe in your podcast app for daily updates and daily notifications. It is day to day 207. As I said, we're reading paragraphs 15, 14, 15, 19, continuing to talk about the anointing of the sick. Yesterday, we talked about what's the at the heart of the anointing of the sick, as well as just the reality that God has, he doesn't remove, we talked about this last couple of days, actually. He hasn't removed our suffering or illness, but he has redeemed it. He's transformed it. And he invites us, not only, yes, to pray for sick, for the sick, to pray for healing, but also

to be willing to take up our cross and follow after Jesus. And it's, it's, this, hmm,

there's something powerful about both of those things. There's something so powerful about a

willingness to say, yeah, I'm going to pray for healing. So I'm going to trust you, Lord.

And if I don't get healed, I'm going to trust you, Lord. That is our invitation today. That's our invitation always. And so let's pray because that is a, that's a high call. That's a high call for every one of us. And so we pray in the name of the Father, Son, Holy Spirit, Father in heaven, we give you praise and glory. Thank you so much. Thank you so much for bringing us to this day. You call us to trust in you with our whole heart, mind, soul, and strength. You call us to love you with our whole heart, mind, soul, and strength. And so we do. We surrender our heart, entire lives to you because you are good. You are our Father and you love us. We know that you do.

And so we declare our trust and your love for us in healing and outside of healing,

in abundance of life and in danger of imminent death. Lord God, we trust in you. Help us to trust you

always. In Jesus

name we pray. Amen. In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.

It is a 207. We are reading paragraphs 1514 to 1519.

Who receives and who administers this sacrament in case of grave illness.

The anointing of the sick is not a sacrament for those only who are at the point of death.

Hence, as soon as anyone of the faithful begins to be in danger of death from sickness or old age,

the fitting time for him to receive this sacrament has certainly already arrived.

If a sick person who has received this

anointing recovers his health, he can, in the case of another grave illness, receive this

sacrament again. If during the same illness the person's condition becomes more serious,

the sacrament may be repeated. It is fitting to receive the anointing of the sick just prior

to a serious operation. The same holds for the

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