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 the tradition of the Catholic faith. The Catechism in a year is brought to you by

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 209. We're reading paragraphs 1526 to 1532, little mini nugget day. I'm also, well, I'm also using the Ascension Edition. I don't know if you knew this. 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 in a year reading plan by visiting ascensionpress.com slash CIY. And lastly, you can click follow or subscribe in your daily podcast app or, you know, wherever you listen to this.

I know that you're tired of hearing that. I also know you probably already have your catechism

in your reading plan. I also, I further know that maybe you are following along with your own

ascension edition of the catechism or whichever addition you have.

But, you know, maybe someone decided to start at day 209.

I don't know.

Maybe they decided to start on Nugget Day.

I have no idea.

But I do know this.

I am really impressed.

I am genuinely, genuinely grateful for every person who's reached out and said, hey, I'm doing the catechism in ear. And I always say, how is it going? And almost without fail, people will say things along the lines of it's kind of a little bit of a battle, a little bit of a struggle. At the same time, by the time you reach day 209 today, my guess is you have a rhythm. That's one of those things like, okay, here's where I get it in. Here's when I listen to the catechism. Hopefully you're getting something out of this. As I said, today is Nugget Day. So we're going to hear this last section on the anoint the sacrament of the anointing of the sick. Tomorrow we're starting out the sacraments of at the service of communion, aka holy orders and holy matrimony.

But today, it's an in brief day. It's a nugget day. And so you know what's going to happen. We're going to hear this review the nuggets, the bullet points of the most important things that we covered over the last couple of days. So as we get started, let's launch into this.

I'm grateful, as I said, for you guys. Keep it on, keeping on. Hit and play every single day.

And I'm going to stop rhyming right now. So let's say a prayer. Father in heaven, we give you

praise and glory. In the name of your son, Jesus Christ, we ask you to please come and meet us in our need.

Come and be with us in this moment. Fill our breath, our lungs with your Holy Spirit. Fill us with

your Holy Spirit. Fill our minds with your truth, with your clarity, with your goodness. Help us to say yes to you

this moment and every moment of our lives. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen. In the name of the

Father, in of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. It is day 209. We're reading paragraphs

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