Day 352: Summary of The Battle of Prayer (2024)
The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz)
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🗓️ 17 December 2024
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Summary
Fr. Mike reviews this section of the Catechism, summarizing the battle of prayer and the prayer of the hour of Jesus. We are reminded that prayer is active, and we must engage in grace. The Catechism goes on to state that, “We pray as we live because we live as we pray.” In this, we see that God meets us where we are and wants us to pray always. Finally, Jesus’ prayer to the Father in the Garden of Gethsemane exemplifies humility, filial trust, honesty, and perseverance; modeling how we are to pray to the Father. Today’s readings are paragraphs 2752-2758.
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 Ear podcast, |
| 0:09.4 | where we encounter God's plan of sheer goodness for us, revealed in scripture, and passed down |
| 0:13.6 | through the tradition of the Catholic faith. The Catechism in E. was brought to you by Ascension. |
| 0:17.5 | In 365 days, we'll read through the Catechism of the Catholic Church, |
| 0:21.3 | discovering our identity and God's family as we journey together toward our heavenly home. |
| 0:25.4 | This is Day 352. We're reading paragraphs 2752 to 2758. As always, I am using the |
| 0:32.0 | Ascension edition of the Catechism, which includes the Foundations of Faith Approach, but you can |
| 0:35.7 | follow along with any recent version of the Catechism of the Catholic Church. You can also download your own catechism in a year |
| 0:40.8 | reading plan by visiting ascensionpress.com slash CIY. And lastly, you can click follow or |
| 0:46.1 | subscribe in your podcast app for daily updates and daily notifications. Today is Nugget Day. |
| 0:51.0 | Congratulations, you guys. It's a 352. We're eating Nuggets 2752 to 2758. It is a summary. |
| 0:57.2 | And in brief, a recapitulation, as I think I said yesterday, of what we just talked about when it comes to |
| 1:02.7 | the battle of prayer. And also yesterday, specifically, prayer of the hour of Jesus. So these are |
| 1:09.0 | going to be kind of a review, but I think it's, well, |
| 1:12.7 | you know what I'm thinking. I love this section and I'm sad to go. I'm excited to talk |
| 1:18.0 | tomorrow about the Lord's Prayer. That's going to be incredible. But these nuggets are some of my |
| 1:23.6 | favorite chicken nuggets, you know what I'm saying? Just, you know, get some good dipping sauce and we're, I'm stopping with this. |
| 1:30.1 | Okay, let's launch into prayer right now because we know what we're going to talk about. |
| 1:33.4 | We're going to talk about the battle of prayer today. |
| 1:35.5 | We're going to look at the obstacles of prayer and some of the erroneous notions of prayer. |
| 1:39.0 | Just be reminded of the way that what God is calling us to engage, right, to respond with faith and love and hope |
| 1:46.4 | and trust and perseverance to his call to pray. So let's do that now. In the name of the Father |
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