Day 348: The Battle of Prayer (2024)

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

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🗓️ 13 December 2024

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Prayer is "grace and grit," as Fr. Mike phrases it. In this section, one of Fr. Mike's favorites in the Catechism, we hear that "we pray as we live because we live as we pray." This living and praying is a battle in which we must confront our failures and accept the Holy Spirit's grace and aid. Prayer requires humility, trust, and perseverance on our part. In this struggle, we must battle against distraction, ourselves, dryness, and temptation. Today's readings are Catechism paragraphs 2725-2731.

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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Please note: The Catechism of the Catholic Church contains adult themes that may not be suitable for children - parental discretion is advised.

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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,
0:09.5	where we encounter God's plan of sure goodness for us, revealed in scripture, and passed
0:13.0	down through the tradition of the Catholic faith. The Catechism in New Year is brought to by
0:16.5	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.
0:24.8	This is day 348. We're reading paragraphs 2725 to 2731. As always, I'm using the Ascension edition of the Catechism, which includes the foundations of faith approach.
0:34.3	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
0:40.7	ascensionpress.com slash CIY, and you can click follow or subscribe in your podcast app for daily
0:44.8	updates and daily notifications. Today is day 348. It is a day I've been longing for, waiting for,
0:51.4	looking eagerly for, looking eagerly too. I don't know. Today, paragraph 2725 to 2731, we begin today,
0:58.2	my favorite section in the entire catechism. I don't know why. I kind of know why. Here's the reason
1:03.0	why. We're talking about the battle of prayer today. And the very first line in 2725 is a line that I
1:08.0	will go over every time I talk to someone about prayer, almost every time.
1:11.2	But every time we go with our CIA class, you know, the right of Christian initiation for adults,
1:15.7	the people who are becoming Christian or becoming Catholic, they don't yet know how to pray.
1:19.8	This is one of the things that I always like to, what's the word?
1:23.2	I always like to emphasize.
1:24.4	I like to introduce them to because it says paragraph 2725, prayer is both a gift of grace and a determined response on our part.
1:32.7	On our part, it is a gift of grace.
1:34.9	Obviously, we know this.
1:36.0	Prayer is always a response, right?
1:37.4	When we pray, it's we're responding to God's initiation or God's initiative, is that the word.
1:43.3	And so it's a gift of grace. And it's a determined
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