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

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Ascension. In 365 days, we'll read through the Catechism of the Catholic Church, discovering our identity in God's family as we journey together toward our heavenly home. This is Day 21. We're reading paragraphs 150 to 155. A couple things to keep in mind as we get started. 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. Also, you could download your own

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click follow or subscribe in your podcast app for daily notifications. As I said, today is day 21.

Praise the Lord, three weeks, you guys. No, that might not seem like it's anything significant. It is incredibly significant because I think we got, I said this the last couple days. I think we've gotten through some of like the grindy things, right? Some of that kind of like, what, where are we going? Where's the where's my footing and here we are you know yesterday

able to launch into this what's our response to god's revelation and today we're going to continue

talking about that in fact yesterday we talked about these great individuals who had great faith

Abraham and Mary and there's also Sarah of course but Abraham and Mary being that that incredible

example Abraham the model of obedience.

Because remember, we talked about how it's called the obedience of faith from Romans chapter one.

By faith, man completely submits his intellect and his will to God.

We're going to talk about kind of another, in some ways, another definition or another aspect of saying the same thing about what it is by faith.

For example, the first line from today's reading is,

faith is first of all, a personal adherence of man to God, which is such an incredible thing.

We're going to talk about how the fact that we have faith, if we have faith, it's a grace,

so it's a gift that comes from God, but it is also a completely free act on our

part, where we freely assent, where we freely cooperate with this.

So faith is both a grace and it is a human act.

And what is that?

Faith isn't just having a feeling, we talked about this before.

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