Hi, my name's 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 you by ascension.

In 365 days, we'll read through the Catechism of the Catholic Church discovering our identity in God's family as we journey together toward our heavenly home.

This is Day 360, all the way around.

We're reading paragraphs 2807 to 2815.

As always, I'm using the Ascension edition of the Catechism, which includes a foundations of faith approach, but you can follow along with any recent version of the Catechism of the Catholic Church. You can also download your own catechism in your reading plan for those last six days by visiting ascensionpress.com slash CIY, although there is some satisfaction in checking off the days, I have to admit. You also can click follow or subscribe on your podcast app for daily updates, daily notifications. I know you guys, here we have day 360 all the way around

the world. Amazing, right? 360 degrees circle. It's a, we come full circle, almost after this day, five more days. But you get it. You guys, thank you. Thank you so much. If you've been, if you're here, it's because you've been listening. And maybe just jumped in. Maybe this is your first day, in which case, hey, welcome. And that's weird. But I thank you for all of you have supported

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but it's not made for free. And so grateful for those of you who are like, hey, I got value out of this and I want to, you know, share the love a little bit. So thank you so much. Speaking of sharing the love, here's a segue. Today, we're talking about the first petition in the Lord's Prayer, the first petition in the Our Father, which is hallowed be

thy name. And so let's highlight this. The first question people always ask when it comes to,

what does it mean to hallow God's name? Are we saying, well, here's, I'll let the catechism speak for

itself. Paragraph 2807 says this. The term to hallow is to be understood here, not primarily

in its causative sense.

Only God hallows.

Only God makes holy.

But above all, in an evaluative sense, to recognize as holy, to treat in a holy way.

Right.

So every time you've been praying, the Lord's prayer and prayed, Father, hallowed be thy name.

You're not making it holy by saying, hallow be your name.

Hallow be thy name, right? It's not a causative sense, but in an evaluative sense to recognize as holy. God, may your name be glorified. May your name be known. May your name be loved, right? May you be loved. And that's hopefully, hopefully you've known that. And if you didn't know that, well, then,

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