Day 266: The Gift of Grace
The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz)
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🗓️ 23 September 2023
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
In this summary of the Catechism’s teaching on holiness, justification, and merit, we briefly consider the work of God’s grace and mercy. His grace moves us from sin and toward him, making us his sons and daughters and bringing us into the very life of the Trinity. This gift of grace invites us to respond to his promptings and invitations freely. Finally, God offers “all the graces needed to attain eternal life.” Today’s readings are Catechism paragraphs 2017-2029.
This episode has been found to be in conformity with the Catechism by the Institute on the Catechism, under the Subcommittee on the Catechism, USCCB.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, my name is Father Mike Schmitz and you're listening to The Catechism in a Year Podcast, |
| 0:09.9 | where we encounter God's plan of sure goodness for us, revealed in Scripture and passed |
| 0:13.3 | down to the tradition of the Catholic faith, the Catechism in a Year is brought to you by |
| 0:16.7 | ascension. |
| 0:17.7 | In 365 days, we'll read through the Catechism of the Catholic Church discovering our |
| 0:21.6 | identity and God's family as we journey together toward our heavenly home this is day 266 |
| 0:26.3 | it's not a good day for reading paragraphs 2017 to 2029 as always I'm using the ascension |
| 0:32.2 | edition of the Catechism, which includes the foundations of faith approach, but you can |
| 0:35.2 | follow along with any recent version of the Catechism of the Catholic Church, you can also |
| 0:38.4 | download your own Catechism in a Year reading plan by visiting ascensionpress.com slash |
| 0:42.8 | cyy and lastly you can click follow or subscribe on your podcast app for daily updates |
| 0:48.3 | and daily notifications today day 266 day 2017 to 2029 it is not lost on me that this is |
| 0:55.9 | you know the year that the year we are in right now, whether you're listening in 2023, 2024, |
| 1:02.0 | 2024, 2007 it's your paragraph is the year year I don't that makes sense I don't know sometimes |
| 1:08.3 | I look at numbers and think okay here we are but it's not a good day you guys and not only is it |
| 1:12.3 | not a good day we are reading so many nuggets they're 2017 to 2029 but he was why I mean we've |
| 1:18.4 | been looking at salvation and the salvation that requirement that were at first that were called |
| 1:24.3 | by the Lord God to belong to him in this completely unique way he's given us grace and we are |
| 1:29.2 | justified by grace through faith we're getting us up on love of course we're called to respond to |
| 1:34.0 | that grace and with our free will and you know we have merit we have Christian holiness all these |
| 1:38.8 | topics we've been talking about for the last number of days we get to be summarized here in our |
| 1:43.2 | in our nuggets nugget 2017 to 2029 so before we launch into this thorough nugget day as one might |
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