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Hi, my name is Father Mike Schmitz, and you're listening to The Catechism in a Year podcast, where we encounter God's plan of shared goodness for us, revealed in scripture and passed down through

the tradition of the Catholic faith. The Catechism in a year is brought to 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. Toward our Heavenly Home, this is Day 266. It's not a good day. We're reading paragraphs 2017 to 29. 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,

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today. Day 266, day 2017 to 2029. It is not lost on me that this is,

you know, the year, that the year we are in right now, whether you're listening in 2023,

2024, 2027, it's your paragraph is your year. I don't, that makes sense. I don't know. Sometimes

I look at numbers and think, okay, here we are. But it's not good day, you guys. And not only is it nugget day. We are reading so many nuggets. They're 2017 to 2029. Because why? I mean, we've been looking at salvation and the salvation that requirement that were, A, first that were called, that were called by the Lord God to belong to him in this completely unique way. He's given us grace and we are

justified by grace through faith. We're getting itself out in love. Of course, we're called to respond to that grace with our free will. And, you know, we have merit, we have Christian holiness, all these topics we've been talking about for the last number of days. We get to be summarized here in our Nuggets, Nugget 2017 to 2029.

So before we launch into this thorough Nugget Day, as one might say, the entire chicken,

we are going to say a prayer.

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