Day 349: Temptation, Trust, and Prayer

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

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🗓️ 15 December 2023

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

What motivates our prayer? Do we see God as our “divine genie,” or do we look to him as our Father? We learn that the most common temptation in prayer is a lack of faith. Another major temptation is acedia or sloth. In the face of these temptations of presumption and discouragement, we must respond with filial trust in God our Father, the giver of all good gifts. Today’s readings are Catechism paragraphs 2732-2737.

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
0:08.5	in a year podcast where we encounter God's plan of sheer goodness for us
0:11.9	revealed in scripture and passed down
0:13.8	through the tradition of the Catholic faith. The Catechism in years brought to you by
0:17.0	ascension. In 365 days we'll read through the Catechism of the Catholic Church
0:21.4	discovering our identity and God's family
0:23.7	as we journey together toward our heavenly home.
0:26.0	This is day 349.
0:27.4	We're reading paragraphs 2732 to 2737.
0:31.1	As always, I'm using the Ascension Edition of the Catechism, which includes a
0:34.5	Foundations of Faith approach, but you can follow along with any recent
0:37.6	version of the Catechism of the Catholic Church. You can also download
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1:13.2	because today we're getting paragraphs to, I don't know,
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