Day 346: Meditation and Vocal Prayer (2024)
The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz)
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🗓️ 11 December 2024
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Summary
Because man is both body and spirit, our prayers can be vocal and meditative. We learn that vocal prayer expresses the movements of our hearts and minds, enabling us to pray with the fullness of our being. Another form of prayer is meditation, which the Catechism tells us is “above all a quest.” In meditation, we employ our thoughts, imagination, and emotions to deepen our union with Christ. Today’s readings are Catechism paragraphs 2700-2708.
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, |
| 0:09.4 | where we encounter God's plan of sheer goodness for us, revealed in scripture, and passed down through |
| 0:13.6 | the tradition of the Catholic faith. The Catechism in the years brought to you by Ascension. |
| 0:17.2 | 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. |
| 0:24.4 | This is Day 346. We're reading paragraphs 2,700 to 2708. As always, I'm using the Ascension edition of the Catechism, which includes the foundations of faith approach. |
| 0:33.8 | But you can follow along with any recent version of the Catechism of the Catholic Church. |
| 0:37.1 | You can also download your own Catechism in a year reading plan by visiting ascensionpress.com |
| 0:41.4 | slash CIY. And lastly, you can click follow or subscribe in your podcast app for daily updates and daily |
| 0:45.7 | notifications. Today is day 346. As I said, we're reading paragraphs 2700 to 2708 yesterday. |
| 0:52.6 | We started chapter three, the life of prayer. Remember, we talked |
| 0:56.3 | about this, that prayer is the life of the new heart. It ought to animate us at every moment, |
| 1:01.7 | but we tend to forget him who is our life and our all. We have to remember. Again, one of the things |
| 1:06.8 | we have to do, always, always, always remember. So the tradition of the church, we were, |
| 1:10.4 | we were reminded of yesterday. The tradition of the church proposes to us certain rhythms of prayer |
| 1:16.6 | and some like daily rhythms of prayer, like morning and evening prayer, like grace before and after |
| 1:21.3 | meals, the liturgy of the hours, having, you know, weekly prayer, Sunday Mass, being so |
| 1:26.0 | critical, right? Today we're talking about expressions |
| 1:29.0 | of prayer. If you remember yesterday in paragraph 2699, it said that although we have a lot of |
| 1:34.4 | diversity in prayer, I love the even the line that says, the Lord leads all persons by paths and in ways |
| 1:40.0 | pleasing to him and each believer responds according to his heart's resolve and the personal |
| 1:44.3 | expressions of his prayer. So prayer is very, very personal, very individual. However, the Christian |
| 1:49.1 | tradition has three major expressions of prayer, vocal, meditative, and contemplative. Today we're |
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