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 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 toward our heavenly home.

This is day 282. We are reading paragraph 2177 to 2183. As always, I am 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 ascenturepress.com slash cI. And lastly, you can click follow or subscribe in your podcast app for daily updates and daily notifications. Today is day 282. Yesterday we started talking about the Lord's Day. We started talking about the Third Commandment. Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy. We know that the Sabbath day has been transferred from Saturday, right,

that seventh day of the week to the eighth day, the first day of the week, which is Sunday,

the Lord's Day, the Day of Resurrection, because as we heard yesterday, Sunday is the fulfillment

of the Sabbath. Now, because of that, yes, we're invited into rest. In fact, we're commanded into

rest. We're also invited slash commanded into worship. And we recognize that the Sunday

celebration of the Lord's Day and his Eucharist is at the heart of the church's life. There is

nothing more important that we do than the Sunday Eucharist. That is the heart of everything.

It is our participation in the representation of the pascal mystery. So yes, the church is called and

actually commanded to take care of the poor. The church is commanded to spread the gospel. Yes,

absolutely, completely. At the heart of that is the Sunday celebration of the Eucharist.

Therefore, we're going to talk about this. It's a holy day, every Sunday, holy day of

obligation as well as some of the other days. Now that goes back to the very beginnings of

Christianity. And so we're called, again, called slash commanded to fulfill the Sunday

obligation. We're going to talk about how we do that

today. And so to open our hearts, because I know that this is one of those aspects. I mentioned

yesterday when it came to rest, which we're also talking about rest tomorrow, when it came to rest

yesterday. And I said, yeah, there's some of these things that I'm convicted about. They bring to the

surface some challenges that I realize,

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