Hi, my name is Father Mike Schmitz, and you're listening to the Catechism in a Year podcast,

where we encounter God's plan of sheer goodness for us, revealed in scripture and passed down through

the tradition of the Catholic faith. The Catechism in a year is brought to by 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. This is Day 356. We're in paragraphs 2777 to 2785. As always, I'm using the Ascension edition of the Catechism, which includes the foundations of faith approach. But you can follow along with any recent version of the Catechism of the Catholic Church, whatever version you like.

You can also download your own catechism in your reading plan by visiting atcensionpress.com and you can click follow or subscribe in your podcast app for daily updates and daily notifications. You know also I realize that some people watch them on the YouTube and that's great. I think is it possible to subscribe on you? I don't know. But if you're joining us through your computer and the magic of YouTube, welcome. This is wonderful. Today is a 356. What a gift today. We're going to talk about the beginning of the Our Father. And I love the fact that you might miss this, especially if you have the Ascension Edition of the Catechism, which I love. Again, I can't say enough about the Ascension Edition, but right underneath where it says, this is probably page 700, if you're with the Ascension Edition, it says Article 2, Our Father Who Art in Heaven, and then the next line is, in quotes, it says, we dare to say. And there's something so powerful about that. It doesn't even, I love it because in paragraph 2777, it highlights, yeah, we have filial boldness.

And we dare in all confidence that there's something remarkable.

It's crazy that if we stopped and thought about, wait a second, we get to stand in private or in public.

We get to kneel in private and public wherever we are. We get to actually call upon God as our father. We dare to say that God is our father and that we are actually his beloved and adopted sons and daughters. It is incredible. We're going to talk about that today because that's the whole focus of today. Tomorrow we'll look at the fact that we say our father and, and then we'll go on more and more. You know how yesterday was super-duper short? Today is not so much super-dibre short. In fact, today we have quite a few paragraphs with a ton of content in. So just, again, we just prayerfully enter into this, but realize at the heart of today's teaching is the fact that we get to call because of the Holy Spirit, because of what Jesus has done for us, because of what the Holy Spirit has made real,

right, has made actual, Jesus made possible, the Holy Spirit made actual, the fact that you and I

actually truly have our God in heaven who's our father, who's Abba, whose dad, and that is such a

great gift. So let's talk to him. Let's pray right now. In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen, Father in heaven. Abba, Dad, in heaven. We thank you so much. Thank you for your son, Jesus Christ. Thank you for your Holy Spirit that you've poured into our hearts that allows us to cry out, Abba. Thank you, Lord God, for bringing us to this moment, for bringing us to this day, bringing us to day 356, and for reminding us that regardless of how we've lived, if we have lived as the son who has ran away from home and wants nothing to do with you, or if we've lived as the son who stayed at home, but has served you as a slave and not his son, we ask that you please. Let us live in your home.

Let us live in your house. Let us live in your heart. Let us return home in repentance. Let us return

to your heart with trust. Lord God, we praise you and bless you. Thank you so much. Thank you so much for making

us your sons and daughters. Help us to find our home and your heart, our true and real father.

In Jesus' name we pray. Amen. In the name of the Father and of the Son and the Holy Spirit, amen.

It is day 356. We are reading paragraphs 2777 to paragraph 2785. Article 2, Our Father

Who Art in Heaven, We Dare to Say. In the Roman liturgy, the Eucharistic Assembly is invited

to pray to our Heavenly Father with filial boldness. Eastern liturgies develop and use similar expressions.

Dare in all confidence.

Make us worthy of.

From the burning bush, Moses heard a voice saying to him,

Do not come near.

...