Day 329: The Gift of Prayer (2024)

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

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🗓️ 24 November 2024

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Summary

St. Thérèse said that “prayer is a surge of the heart.” Do we pray from our pride or from a place of humility? The Catechism tells us that “humility is the foundation of prayer.” In humility we can feel God’s thirst for us, accept his gift of prayer, and pray to him from our heart. Today’s readings are Catechism paragraphs 2558-2565.

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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Please note: The Catechism of the Catholic Church contains adult themes that may not be suitable for children - parental discretion is advised.

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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,
0:09.4	where we encounter God's plan of sheer goodness for us, revealed in scripture and passed down
0:13.7	through the tradition of the Catholic faith. The Catechism in a year is brought to by Ascension.
0:17.8	In 365 days, we'll read through the Catechism of the Catholic Church,
0:21.6	discovering our identity and God's family as we journey together toward our heavenly home.
0:25.7	This is day 329. We are reading paragraphs 2558 to 2565. As always, I'm using the
0:32.2	Ascension edition of the Catechism, which includes the Foundations of Faith approach, but you
0:35.9	can follow along with any recent version of the Catechism of the Catholic Church. You can also download your own catechism in a
0:41.3	year reading plan by visiting ascensionpress.com slash CIY, and you can click follow or subscribe
0:45.8	in your podcast app for daily updates and daily notifications today. It's day 329.
0:50.7	Yesterday we had the opportunity to talk to Sister Miriam. What a gift, incredible gift.
0:55.3	And today we're launching into this fourth and final pillar.
0:59.1	And yet we're talking about section one, prayer in the Christian life.
1:01.9	There's something remarkable because the very first question that gets asked in this section is,
1:06.6	what is prayer?
1:07.7	And the definition, their answer that's given to us is not even a technical
1:12.5	definition. It is definitely a good definition, but it's a definition that comes from experience.
1:19.0	It's a definition that comes from the heart. It's a definition that comes from a young girl
1:23.3	named Saint Theresee of the Sioux. And the catechism asks, what is prayer? And she responds,
1:28.6	for me, prayer is a surge of the heart. It is a simple look, turn toward heaven. It is a cry
1:34.3	of recognition and love, embracing both trial and joy. We recognize that, man, again, that
1:40.4	definition or that explanation, it's not technical, but it comes from experience.
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