Day 335: Jesus Teaches Us to Pray (2024)

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

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🗓️ 30 November 2024

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

At the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus teaches us to pray through his own prayer to the Father. As we watch Jesus pray, his prayer becomes our template for our own prayer. Fr. Mike emphasizes that our prayer should not just be external, but rather should be an internal conversion of heart. This internal conversion of heart involves many aspects such as, reconciliation, loving our enemies, praying to the Father in secret, and prayerful forgiveness. Today’s readings are Catechism paragraphs 2607-2615.

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'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.
0:15.3	The Catechism in a year is brought to you by Ascension. In 365 days, we'll read through the Catechism of the Catholic Church
0:21.0	discovering our identity and God's family as we journey together toward our heavenly home.
0:25.4	This is Day 335. We're reading paragraphs 2607 to 2615. As always, I'm using the
0:31.4	Ascension edition of the Catechism, which includes the foundations of faith approach, but you can
0:35.5	follow along with any recent version of the Catechism of the Catholic Church. You can also download your own catechism in a year reading
0:40.8	plan by visiting ascensionpress.com slash CIY, and you can click follow or subscribe in your
0:45.1	podcast app for daily updates, daily notifications. Speaking of today, today is a great day to be
0:50.0	grateful, and I am grateful. Thank you so much for all of you who have supported the production of this podcast by your prayers. Thank you for praying for me and praying for all the people
0:57.1	who work on this podcast. And thank you for praying for each other. And also thank you for all
1:01.3	those who help us with your financial gifts. We literally could not do this without you. We could not
1:05.2	get to day 335. You know, yesterday we talked about how Jesus prays. Today we're taking the next step.
1:11.7	And Jesus teaches us how to pray. And this is remarkable because paragraph 2607 begins by saying,
1:17.2	you know, just what we said yesterday. Jesus prays and we see Jesus praying. The first line says,
1:22.6	when Jesus prays, he's already teaching us how to pray. Which is completely true. Just by watching Christ pray, by watching Jesus pray, the son approach the Father.
1:31.5	We have a map, right?
1:32.6	That's our template for how we can approach the Father as well.
1:35.7	And yet at the same time, there are some times when Jesus explicitly teaches us how to pray.
1:40.5	And so we're going to look at those things today.
1:42.2	The aspects, the character of Christ's prayer, as well as what he encourages us and how he encourages us how to pray. And so we're going to look at those things today, the aspects, the character of Christ's
1:44.3	prayer, as well as what he encourages us and how he encourages us how to pray. Does that make sense?
1:49.1	I think it makes sense. So let's do that. Let us pray as Jesus taught us, not in the sense of the
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