Day 350: Persevering in Prayer (2024)
The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz)
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🗓️ 15 December 2024
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
The Catechism teaches about the effectiveness of prayer and how to persevere in prayer. Fr. Mike explains that although God already knows what we need before we ask, he wants us to pray, and he extends us dignity by allowing us to pray and ask for what we need. In the process of prayer, we are able to learn the heart of the Father, grow closer to him, and become more like him. The Catechism goes on to state that when it comes to prayer, it is always possible, a vital necessity, and inseparable from the Christian life. Today’s readings are Catechism paragraphs 2738-2745.
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 is Father Mike Schmitz, and you're listening to The Catechism in a Year podcast, |
| 0:09.7 | where we encountered God's plan of sheer goodness for us, revealed in scripture, and passed |
| 0:13.6 | down through the tradition of the Catholic faith. The Catechism in a year is brought to you by |
| 0:17.3 | Ascension. In 365 days, we'll read through the Catechism of the Catholic |
| 0:21.3 | Church, discovering our identity and God's family as we journey together toward our heavenly |
| 0:25.1 | home. This is Day 350. We're reading paragraphs 2738 to 2745, as always. I'm using the |
| 0:31.7 | 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 |
| 0:40.7 | reading plan by visiting ascensionpress.com slash CIY, and you can click follow or subscribe |
| 0:45.1 | on your podcast app for daily updates, the other notifications. Today's Day 350, you guys, I am so |
| 0:49.3 | grateful. Thank you so much for all of you who have supported the production of this podcast. We have not including today, not including today, 15 days left. Is that good math? I'm not sure. Including today, 16. |
| 0:59.3 | But thank you so much. If you've supported this podcast, your prayers, I promise you, I pray, |
| 1:04.4 | literally pray every day for y'all. And I know you're praying for me and for each other as well. |
| 1:08.8 | Thank you for praying for the whole team that's part of this. I mean, they put so much time into this to make sure that all of us can have access to |
| 1:16.4 | this catechism like this. And also those of you who have supported us with their financial gifts, |
| 1:20.6 | again, this podcast is free and it's not free to make, though. So thank you so much for saying, hey, this blessed my life. I want to keep it going. |
| 1:28.5 | So thank you so much. |
| 1:32.8 | We're here at day 350, reading paragraph 2738 to 2745. |
| 1:36.1 | Man, this is, this is it. |
| 1:40.0 | This is we get to hear one last time of the battle of prayer. |
| 1:41.7 | We're going to hear a little bit about it tomorrow too. |
| 1:43.8 | But, man, so good. |
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