Day 366: Special Leap Year Message
The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz)
Ascension
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🗓️ 31 December 2024
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
In this bonus leap year episode, Fr. Mike reflects on the transformative journey of the past 365 days and invites us to take the next step in our faith journey. He emphasizes the importance of remembering God daily and encourages us to strengthen our faith by learning to pray deeply.
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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Transcript
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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, |
| 0:09.4 | where we encounter God's plan of sheer goodness for us, revealed in scripture, and passed down through the tradition of the Catholic faith. |
| 0:15.4 | The Catechism in a year is brought to you by Ascension. |
| 0:17.5 | In 365 days, we'll read through the catechism of the Catholic Church |
| 0:21.0 | discovering our identity in God's family as we journey together toward our heavenly home. |
| 0:24.9 | Today is day 366. If you are listening to this, during a leap year, you are in luck because |
| 0:30.3 | you've been blessed with one extra day. You're like, I thought I was done. Well, you would be done |
| 0:34.5 | because, you know, today's day 366. We have to realize that the way |
| 0:39.1 | the Gregorian calendar works, we get this extra day. It's a bonus day. And we thank the Lord for |
| 0:44.0 | every single bonus day. You know, it's been a little bit of time since the catechism |
| 0:49.1 | in here was recorded. The podcast was recorded. And since then, I've seen this podcast change some lives in just incredible |
| 0:55.9 | ways. And first of all, myself. And I want to note on this day, day 366, just a couple |
| 1:01.6 | quick notes. One is how things started. Another is how things ended. So if you can recall, |
| 1:06.7 | 366 days ago, when we started day one of the Catechism in a year podcast, I don't know. |
| 1:13.1 | You know, it was a different, it was a different format. |
| 1:15.0 | It is a different format from the Bible in a year. |
| 1:17.1 | And for me personally, it was one of those kind of situations where I'm like, it took me |
| 1:21.6 | a bit of time to get into the groove. |
| 1:24.1 | And it was one of those situations where if you ever listened to the Bible, |
| 1:32.3 | you know that how we did it was, here's the opening introduction, here's kind of an overview of what we're going to cover and then like launching in. And afterwards was a prayer. And |
| 1:35.6 | after that was the commentary essentially. And then of course for the catechism, what you've been |
| 1:39.9 | doing for the last 365 days, has been slightly different. And one of the things that I found was so |
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