I'm my name's Father Mike Schmitz and you're listening to the Catechism

and your podcast where we encounter God's plan of sheer goodness for us

revealed in scripture and passed down to the tradition

of the Catholic faith, the Catechism in the year is brought to you by 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 217. We are reading paragraphs 1581

1589 as always. I am using the Ascension Edition of the Catechism, which includes a foundations of

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notifications because we made it all the way to today, day 217, 1581 to 1589.

This is the last little section before we talk about holy matrimony.

Well, we have nuggets coming up, you know, but from 1581 to 1589 we're talking about the effects of the

sacrament of holy orders that there is an indelible character that is is

imprinted essentially kind of like baptism kind of like confirmation that is once a

priest always a priest in fact scripture says you are

priest forever and so we have that secondly we talk about the grace of the

Holy Spirit what is that is that a grace of strength yes it is is the grace of wisdom and all it is, is the grace of wisdom and all those gifts, gifts of the Holy Spirit, yes.

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