Day 362: Our Daily Bread (2025)
The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz)
Ascension
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🗓️ 28 December 2025
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
Asking God for our “daily bread” is a petition for him to fill our physical and spiritual hunger. Fr. Mike breaks down this simple yet profound petition that reminds us of our reliance on God for all our needs. In this part of the Lord’s prayer, we turn to God with childlike hearts, trusting that he will nourish us with all the appropriate material goods and, above all, with the Eucharist. Today’s readings are Catechism paragraphs 2828-2837.
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, |
| 0:09.3 | where we encounter God's plan of sheer goodness for us, revealed in scripture and passed down |
| 0:13.0 | through the tradition of the Catholic faith. The Catechism in a year is brought to you by |
| 0:16.2 | 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. |
| 0:24.3 | This is Day 362. We're reading paragraphs 2828 to 2837. 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. |
| 0:36.2 | You can also download your own catechism in a year reading plan by visiting ascensionpress.com slash CI. And lastly, |
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| 0:46.4 | I know the maybe ridiculousness of those last two little notes of you can get a reading plan or |
| 0:52.3 | you can follow or subscribe because here we are day 362 you |
| 0:55.5 | guys you're almost there you are almost across the finish line amazing we have only a couple more |
| 0:59.6 | petitions left today we get to look at the petition give us this day our daily bread oh my gosh |
| 1:06.0 | if there's anything if it says in paragraph 28 28 it says give us the trust of children who look to their father for everything is beautiful. |
| 1:14.8 | Let's just stop there. |
| 1:16.5 | The trust of children who look to their father for everything is beautiful. |
| 1:21.7 | That's amazing. |
| 1:23.3 | And that's what we're doing here in this petition. |
| 1:25.2 | We get to actually just simply trust our father. Give us this day our daily bread. That daily bread, it can mean a lot of things. One of the things, I can't wait to tell you. I can't wait to reveal what paragraph 2837 says about this bread, this daily bread, but it can mean so many things. We don't live on bread alone, but by every word |
| 1:45.1 | that comes forth from the mouth of God. We know that, of course. So we're asking God in this prayer |
| 1:50.5 | for just what we need, what we need. And so let's come before God right now and trust him. Let's |
| 1:59.5 | come before God now with the trust of children who look to their father for |
| 2:03.3 | everything because that is beautiful. So we pray in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy |
| 2:08.3 | Spirit. Amen. Father in heaven, we give you praise and thank you. Thank you so much. Please receive our |
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