Day 332: Prayer Converts Our Heart (2025)
The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz)
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🗓️ 28 November 2025
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
The Catechism discusses the significance of prayer beginning with the prophets and their observations about the Temple and ritualism. It is noteworthy that while we must worship the Lord externally, this must be in tandem with prayer and cannot remain external. With Fr. Mike’s insight, we see that our thinking affects how we act, and our behaviors can influence beliefs. Taking this to heart, if we ever feel that we are just “going through the motions”, we should persist and continue praying. Today’s readings are Catechism paragraphs 2581-2589.
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, |
| 0:09.3 | where we encounter God's plan of sheer goodness for us, revealed in scripture and passed down through the tradition of the Catholic faith. |
| 0:15.2 | The Catechism in a year is brought to you by Ascension. |
| 0:17.5 | 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 a 332 out of 365. And as always, I'm 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 to mix it up a little bit. I'll let you know we're reading paragraphs 2581 to 2589 to download |
| 0:40.5 | your own catechism of the Catholic Church to mix it up a little bit. I'll let you know we're reading paragraphs 2581 to 2589 to download your own catechism in a year reading plan, |
| 0:42.3 | which you would actually already know which paragraphs are reading. You can go to ascensionpress.com |
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| 0:51.5 | notifications because today is day 332 and yesterday you know |
| 0:56.3 | we're into it we're into the fourth pillar of the catechism now and we talked about god's promise |
| 1:00.9 | to abraham and how abraham responded in faith abraham's his own prayer of faith talked about |
| 1:05.6 | moses in his prayer of faith that as he got to know god and know the very heart of god he became an |
| 1:10.4 | intercessor and he had this intimacy with god. He was humble and he trusted the Lord. We talked about David a little bit. And David, how he has the prayer of the king. He is in 2579. He is a king, a person after God's own heart, the shepherd who prays for his people and prays in their name. And he has submission to God. |
| 1:28.0 | So even this David, this David who has done many wrong things in his life. So like all of us, |
| 1:33.0 | see, he still was a person after God's own heart because he submitted to the will of God. |
| 1:38.5 | He would praise God. He repented when he sinned. And he's a model of prayer for the people. And so we |
| 1:43.5 | recognize this. Now, today, |
| 1:44.8 | we're taking this next step and looking at Elijah. Not only Elijah, but also the prayer of the |
| 1:49.0 | Psalms. We're concluding this very first article in this fourth pillar of the catechism by highlighting |
| 1:54.3 | Elijah and how the prophets called for a conversion of heart, how God wants our heart. And we give him |
| 2:00.1 | our heart in worship, |
| 2:00.9 | of course, but also in prayer, in that one-to-one encounter with God, as well as we're going to hear about the Psalms, which is known as the Prayer of the Assembly. And the Psalms are still so very important for us as Catholics. So we're going to talk about the Psalms today and how they can help us, not just help us in our prayer, how they can be our prayer in so many ways. So let's take a |
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