Hi, my name's Father Mike Schmitz, and you're listening to the Catechism in the Year podcast,

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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 208. We're reading paragraphs 1520 to 1525. 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 and a year reading plan by visiting ascensionpress.com

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is day 20-20-15-25. This is the last little section before the in-brief, before the Nuggets,

and before chapter three, the sacraments at the service of communion, which are sacraments of matrimony and holy orders. We're talking about that. And then, I don't know, we'll say the day after tomorrow. Yeah, the day after tomorrow. But today, we have the effects of the celebration of this sacrament. So if you recall this at all, back, I was going to say back in the day, but it's a couple weeks away.

We talked about the effects of confirmation and now I kind of shared how powerful, how profound that was for me to hear, oh my gosh, this is what the sacrament does.

Kind of the same thing when it comes to the sacrament, the effects of the celebration of the sacrament of confession, reconciliation we talked about a couple

days ago. The effects of the sacrament of the anointing of the sick is remarkable. In fact,

there are a couple that just will bullet point them and then we'll launch into a prayer

and then launch into the reading today. First, it's a particular gift of the Holy Spirit.

It's a very special gift of the Holy Spirit at the end of one's life or for healing. Secondly,

there's union with the passion of Christ. That's another effect. We're even more united to the passion,

right? The suffering and death of Jesus. Also, it's an ecclesial grace where God pours out the grace

of the church upon the person, brings them even more, and I don't say even more closely in the church because it's already fully initiated, hopefully, but brings them kind of to the heart of the church upon the person brings them even more, I don't say even more closely in the church

because it already fully initiated, hopefully, but brings them kind of to the heart of the church

in some ways, right? Because the church, as the body of Christ, continues on this earth to suffer

for and with Christ. Also, it's preparation for the final journey. And that last, that last note,

it gets highlighted in the last two paragraphs,

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