Day 208: Completing the Earthly Pilgrimage
The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz)
Ascension
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🗓️ 27 July 2023
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
The effects of the Anointing of the Sick are numerous and deeply transformative. In times of great need and temptation, this sacrament brings us strength, courage, peace, and the forgiveness of sins. Fr. Mike explains that these effects aren’t only for the individual recipient but for the whole ecclesial community. We learn that when a person approaches the threshold of death, joining this anointing with Reconciliation and the Eucharist as viaticum constitute “the sacraments that complete the earthly pilgrimage.” Today’s readings are Catechism paragraphs 1520-1525.
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This episode has been found to be in conformity with the Catechism by the Institute on the Catechism, under the Subcommittee on the Catechism, USCCB.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, my name is Father Mike Schmitz and you're listening to The Catechism in the Year Podcast, |
| 0:09.3 | where we encounter God's plan of sheer goodness for us, revealed in Scripture and passed down to |
| 0:13.3 | the tradition of the Catholic faith, the Catechism in the Year is brought to you by Ascension. |
| 0:16.9 | In 365 days, we will read through the Catechism of the Catholic Church discovering our identity |
| 0:21.7 | in God's family as we journey together to our heavenly home. This is the 208-whear reading |
| 0:26.0 | paragraph's 1520-1525, as always, I'm using the Ascension edition of the Catechism, which includes |
| 0:31.2 | the foundations of faith approach, but you can follow along with any recent version of the Catechism |
| 0:35.2 | of the Catholic Church. You can also download your own Catechism in your reading plan, |
| 0:38.6 | by visiting AscensionPress.com slash C-I-Y, and you can click follow or subscribe |
| 0:42.4 | on your podcast app for daily updates and daily notifications, because today is the 208. |
| 0:47.0 | Paragraph's 1520-1525. This is the last little section before the in brief, before the nuggets, |
| 0:52.2 | and before chapter 3, the sacraments at the service of communion, which are sacraments of matrimony |
| 0:58.0 | and holy orders. We're talking about that, and then I don't know, we'll say the day after tomorrow, |
| 1:02.4 | the day after tomorrow, but today we have the effects of the celebration of this sacrament. |
| 1:06.8 | So if you recall this at all, back, I was going to say back in the day, but it's a couple weeks away. |
| 1:13.2 | We talked about the effects of confirmation, and now I kind of shared how powerful, |
| 1:17.3 | how profound that was for me to hear. Oh my gosh, this is what the sacrament does. |
| 1:21.2 | Kind of the same thing when it comes to the sacrament, the effects of the celebration of the sacrament |
| 1:25.5 | of confession. Reconciliation we talked about a couple days ago. The effects of the sacrament |
| 1:30.3 | of the anointing of the sick is remarkable. In fact, there are a couple that just will bullet |
| 1:35.2 | point them and then will launch into a prayer and then launch into the reading today. First, |
| 1:38.8 | it's a particular gift of the Holy Spirit, and it's a very special gift of the Holy Spirit at the |
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