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 and God's family as we journey together toward our heavenly home. This is Day 333. 33. We're reading paragraphs 2590 to 2597. As always, I'm using the Ascension edition of the Catechism, which includes a foundation 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 at your podcast app for daily updates and daily notifications because today is day 33. It's Nugget Day. I mentioned yesterday that we didn't talk too much about the Psalms,

that section there. So after we read the in brief, after we read the Nuggets, I thought,

let's go back and take a look at yesterday's paragraphs on the Psalms. Not like overly deep dive,

but, you know, let's investigate. How about? So today we're just going to enter into this nugget. So we call upon our Heavenly Father. We call upon Him in the name of the Father and of the Son of the Holy Spirit. Amen. Father in heaven, in this name of your Son, Jesus Christ, we ask you to please, please receive our thanks. Receive our praise. Lord God, the Psalms, the Psalter is your gift to us so that we can praise you

the way you deserve. These prayers are your gift to us so that our hearts have a way of expressing

the truth and the depths of our hearts, but also reaching the truth and the heights that is you.

That's what's true about you and who you are. So we thank you.

When we ask you to please help us not only pray. And when we're praying extemporaneously, Lord

God, help us to pray well, we don't know how to pray as we are, but also when we pray the Psalms,

Lord God, help us to pray the Psalms, not in an empty way, not in an hollow way, but help us to pray

the Psalms in a way that is alive and

dynamic, where your words change our hearts, as often as we read them, as often as we utter

them or sing them. Let your words change our hearts. Let your words become our words.

Let your heart become our heart. We make this prayer in the

mighty name of Jesus Christ, our Lord. Amen. In the name of the Father, and of the Son and of the

Holy Spirit. Amen. It is day 333. We're reading paragraphs 2590 to 2597. In brief, prayer is the raising

of one's mind and heart to God, or the requesting of good things

from God. God tirelessly calls each person to this mysterious encounter with himself.

Prayer unfolds throughout the whole history of salvation as a reciprocal call between God and

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