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 to our heavenly home, this is day 231. We're reading paragraphs 1691 to 1698. As always, 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. You can also download your own catechism in a year reading plan by visiting ascensionpress.com slash cI and you can click follow or subscribe in your podcast apps to receive daily updates, daily notifications to make sure you're subscribed. It would be awesome. Yesterday, what was that. Man, Dr. Mary Healy, what a gift. I know people are like, oh, wow,

that was a long. You only got a part of it. That was edited down from being massively long.

It was a long, long conversation, but so beautiful, so powerful, not just because Dr. Healy is

incredibly smart and very much filled with the Holy Spirit. Just, I don't know if you caught this, but I was just in that room with her. She speaks with authority. Like it seems authority that comes from the Holy Spirit. It's so powerful, but also because of the content. You know, we're taking our next step here today. Congratulations, by the way. 8.2.30 yesterday, 231 today, of the third pillar. Here we are on how we live. We talked about what we

believe, about how we worship now today. We're starting to listen actually to what the catechism

says about how we live. What is our calling? Now, tomorrow we're going to talk about human dignity

and that our vocation is life in the spirit. And we start with the human dignity,

dignity of the human person.

But even before human dignity, we recognize what is our high calling?

And we recognize, I'll say you recognize twice.

We note we are aware of the fact that the first, this is a paragraph 1698,

the first and last point of reference of this catechesis,

of a catechesis in morality, right?

Catechesis in how we live will always be Jesus Christ himself.

So the first point, the last point, always, everything's going to be in Jesus.

And so today, from paragraph 1691 to 1698, we're going to be talking about that.

What is the high call of the Christian? That we, yes, we hear the gospel proclaimed. We're brought into communion with the Father through the sacraments and the Son of the Holy Spirit through the sacraments. And then we're called to live in this way. We're called to live this new life. We become children of God. We've been filled with the Holy Spirit. We're partakers of the divine nature. And now we have to live a life

worthy of the gospel of Christ. And so the Holy Spirit, God gives us this gift. He gives us the ability

by his grace, the grace of Christ and the gifts the Holy Spirit. But we have to learn. And that's why we're

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