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 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 in God's family as we journey together to our heavenly home. This is Day 273. We're reading paragraphs 2095 to 2103 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 is day 273. I guess I said, we're reading paragraph 295 and 2103. Yesterday we talked about how the first part of the first commandment is,

you shall worship the Lord your God. And the second part is, him only shall you serve. So yesterday we

talked about what are the ways we can sit against this with regard to faith, hope, and love.

Today, we're going to talk about adoration, prayer. We're going to look at sacrifice. What is

the proper sacrifice? How do we adore the Lord?

How is it that we truly serve the Lord? Promises and vows as well as those things like the evangelical

councils. Remember, I think we had a little lesson on that a little few days ago, little lesson,

little days. And the words are like chastity, poverty, obedience. Those are the evangelical

councils that sometimes

people make promises about those things. They make vows regarding poverty, chastity, and obedient.

So we're looking at all of those, adoration, prayer, sacrifice, as well as promises and vows.

So all that sums up some stuff in order to get ready for today. Let us call upon the Lord and enter into prayer.

Father in heaven, because of Jesus, we have access to your heart. We thank you for your son.

We thank you for loving us so much that you've given us not only your son, but also your Holy Spirit,

as another paraclete, as another helper that has been poured out into our hearts.

Thank you, Lord God. Thank you, Father. Thank you, Son and Holy Spirit. Holy Trinity, you are truly the mystery of mysteries. And we can hardly understand you, but help us to love you. Help us to love you, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Help us to love you, one God. Help us to adore you. And every time we pray, help us to pray to you. Help us to know who it is that we're talking to. To help us to know who it is that loves us so much. Lord God, let every moment of this day be a sacrifice of praise and thanksgiving to you and to your glory. We make this prayer in the mighty name of Jesus Christ, our Lord in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. As I said, it is day 273.

We are reading paragraphs 2095 to 2103.

Him only shall you serve. The theological virtues of faith, hope, and charity inform and give life to the moral virtues.

Thus, charity leads us to render to God what we as creatures owe him in all justice.

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