Day 327: Poverty of Heart (2025)

The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz)

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🗓️ 23 November 2025

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Where should we find consolation? It's essential to remember that our ultimate goal and true source of happiness is God. With this in mind, Fr. Mike emphasizes the need to detach ourselves from worldly possessions and strive to be channels of God's grace. By doing so, when we receive blessings, we can in turn become a blessing to others. Today’s readings are Catechism paragraphs 2544-2557.

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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0:58.4	Hi, my name's Father Mike Schmitz, and you're listening to the Catechism in a Year podcast,
1:02.3	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
1:05.5	Ascension. In 365 days, we will read through the Catechism of the Catholic Church,
1:10.0	discovering our identity and God's family as we journey together toward our heavenly home. This is day 327. We're reading paragraph 2544 to 2557. 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 Gaticism and your reading plan by visiting ascensionpress.com slash the IY. And you can click follow or subscribing your podcast app for daily updates and daily notifications. This is the last day of Pillar 3. Congratulations, you guys. Amazing. So we're going to start in paragraph 2544. Hit some nuggets at the end. Just what a grace it is.
1:44.7	Because on this 10th commandment, we continue to talk about what we were talking about the last few days, how God desires this transformation of our hearts.
1:53.4	And now, starting tomorrow, we'll talk to Sister Miriam.
1:55.5	It'll be amazing.
1:56.5	But the day after that, we're going to continue to launch into, we're going to begin to launch into Pillar 4 and talk about like, how is it that we can have this, this lived relationship,
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