I'm my name's Father Mike Schmitz, and you're listening to the Categism Anyear 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 Ineer 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 228. We are reading paragraphs 1667 to 1679. Lots of paragraphs. As always, I'm using the Ascension edition of the Catechism, which includes a 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 podcast app for daily updates and daily notifications today. It's day 228. As I mentioned yesterday, maybe a couple times. I was just very excited about the fact that we came to the end of the seven sacraments.

And today we're talking about these last little articles at the very end, other liturgical

celebrations.

One of the things that I think I've heard people say that was lost with the Second Vatican Council

was the rule of sacramentals or the place that devotionals have in the life of

the ordinary Christian, of the ordinary Catholic.

And yet here is this mini section that's reserved exclusively to talk about sacramentals.

That's reserved exclusively to talk about popular piety.

So we're going to talk about that today.

In fact, it's kind of a lot of paragraphs. It's paragraph 1667 to 1676 is the actual like meat and

potatoes of the whole deal. And then the last three paragraphs 1677 to 1679 are nuggets. That's right.

We're going through an entire article today. So without anything further,

let us call upon the Lord and place ourselves in His presence as we pray, Father, in heaven.

We give you praise and glory. We thank you. We thank you for the gifts that you have bestowed on us

in your church, not only the great gifts of your sacraments, but the gifts of the sacramentals, the gifts not only that are just are rooted in necessity, your scripture, your

word, the magisterium, your teaching, the creed in the sacraments, but also these extra gifts,

this gravy, right? right this frosting these spices that

make life so good that make following you give it such vibrancy this additional devotions

that you give to us as as means of reaching us in new ways and in different ways. Lord God, help us be open, especially

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