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 you 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 361. We are reading paragraphs 2816 to 2827. 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. You can also download your own catechism in a year reading plan by visiting ascensionpress.com slash CIY. And lastly, you can click follow or subscribe in your podcast app for daily updates and daily notifications today. It's day 361. As I said, 2816 to 2827. It's 10 good paragraphs, maybe 12 even. I don't know how to count. But we're going

through a few. We're also going through two of the petitions. Yesterday we talked about Father

hallowed be thy name. Today, we're looking at both thy kingdom come and they will be done on earth

as it is in heaven. And so because we're looking at two petitions, it seems like kind of a chunk of

change. We're going through today in order to prepare ourselves and, you know, get ourselves ready to go

through two petitions. You know these petitions thy kingdom come. You know the petition that will be

done on earth as it is in heaven. So just prepare our hearts to recognize that what we're going

to be learning about and ultimately praying for is for the kingdom that

Jesus Christ came to establish on earth, that it comes on earth, right? That it is manifest fully on

earth. It's here. We know the kingdom of God is at hand that Jesus declared that. We're praying

that what he declared comes about in fullness and in complete fullness of truth.

We're also praying that thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.

The human heart wants to say, my will be done.

And yet here is our Lord, right?

He is the master of prayer.

He is the model of prayer.

And he says, yeah, every day, every day, often pray the right way. Thy will be done. Not my will be done, but thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. So as we enter into this day, let's enter into prayer as we pray in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. Father in heaven, we thank you.

We give you praise and we do pray that your name is hallowed, that your kingdom comes, and that your will is done on earth as it is in heaven. Lord God, bring heaven down to earth. Bring earth up to heaven

in Jesus Christ, your son. You have reconciled heaven and earth. In Jesus Christ, your son, you have poured

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