Hi, my name is Father Mike Schmitz, and you're listening to the Catechism in a Year podcast,

where we encountered 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 to our heavenly home. This is Day 245. We are reading paragraphs 1830 to 1845. 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 CIY. You can also, little known fact, you know what I'm going to say. You can click follow or subscribe in your podcast app for daily updates and daily notifications. Speaking of today, day 245, you guys, amazing. You made it. After today, there's 120 days left, which means something. I don't know what it means exactly, but it means I can do simple math. That's what it means. And reading paragraphs 1830 to 1845. It is day 245. And I want to thank you, not only for pressing play, I also want to thank you for supporting this podcast. If you've supported, if you've been praying, you know, I literally, I say, please pray for me. I'm praying for you. I'm praying for you. I do. Honestly, every single day. I do that. But if you've been praying, thank you so much. And praying for each other. I'm so grateful. And those of you who have supported this podcast, not only with your prayers and interceding on behalf of each other and for all the

staff who do this, but also financial gifts. Thank you so much. I don't want to belabor a point,

but I am so grateful today. We're wrapping up the virtues, and it's going to be great. We're

talking about the gifts and fruits of the Holy Spirit. It's only three paragraphs, which is

relatively short when you're talking about the gifts and fruits of the Holy Spirit. It's only three paragraphs, which is relatively short to when you talk about the gifts and fruits of the Holy Spirit.

Then we got nugget after nugget.

We have a bunch of nuggets.

We have nuggets from paragraph 1833 to 1845.

That might be the biggest nugget pack we've ever had.

And yet some of these nuggets are for their one sentence long.

So just keep that in mind.

Okay, today we're talking about gifts and fruits of the Holy Spirit. Really important, very brief.

Let's get started by praying, asking the Lord to bless us today, Father in heaven.

We do ask you to bless us in the name of your son, Jesus Christ. We also ask you to receive

our thanks, to receive our thanks,

to receive our praise. You are good. You are our father. You're God. You are the alpha and the

omega. You are the source of life and you're the source of love. You are the origin and you're the

motive and you're the object of our faith, our hope, and our love.

Help us to love you better. Help us to trust you more. Help us to hope in you and your promises

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