Hi, my name is 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 345. We're reading paragraphs 2691 to 2699. 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. You can also download your own catechism in a year reading plan by visiting ascensionpress.com slash CI. And you can click follow or subscribe in your podcast app for daily updates, daily notifications. You guys, thank you so much. You know, it's day 345, which means what? It means that after this, we have 20 episodes to go. We are getting so close to

the end. And what a great gift has been to be able to journey with you. I am praying for you.

Thank you so much for everyone who has supported the production of this podcast, the whole team

to support me through your prayers and financial gifts. We could not do this without you. We

definitely could not have made it all the way

to date 345. Now, here's the thing about today. Yes, we've been doing this 345 days. Today we're doing something we've never done before. And here's what we've never done before. We've never gone from one article or one chapter to another chapter in the same episode. I don't know if you know this. I could be wrong on that because I have a bad memory.

But here's what we're going to do.

We're going to finish this

section that's on the guides for prayer. Yesterday we talked about servants of prayer, those people

who teach us how to pray. Today we're going to kind of conclude this section by looking at places

favorable for prayer. Like, where could you pray?

We're going to do some nuggets, and then we're actually going into chapter three on the life of prayer, just looking at those first three paragraphs on chapter three, the life of prayer.

And this is remarkable, because not only are we going to get some really practical things at the very beginning,

places favorable for prayer, easy for me to say, but we're also in starting

chapter three in the life of prayer. We get this just beautiful, these beautiful words. For example,

paragraph 2697. It says, prayer is the life of the new heart. It ought to animate us at every

moment, but we tend to forget him who is our life

and our all. And this is just the reality. I love the fact that here today on this one random day

that we're going from one section to another section, one chapter to another chapter,

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