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 it 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 78. Congratulations, you guys are reading paragraph 547 to 553. 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. Also, you can get your own free catechism in your reading plan by visiting ascensionpress.com slash CIY. And also you can click follow or subscribe in your podcast app for daily notifications. Today is, as I said, day 78. We're reading paragraphs 547 to 553. We're talking about the keys of the kingdom. As you know, even following along,

you were here at day 77 yesterday. We are talking about the mysteries, right? The mysteries of Christ's life.

All of Christ's life is a mystery, like meaning it reveals the depths of God's heart. Of course,

we talked about the Christmas mystery. We talked about the mystery of Jesus' infancy, his hidden life. We talked about the baptism of Jesus and the his temptations. We also talked about the Christmas mystery. We talked about the mystery of Jesus' infancy, his hidden life.

We talked about the baptism of Jesus and the his temptations. We also talked about the kingdom

of God. That was yesterday. How Jesus came to establish the kingdom, right? The fulfillment of the

promise that God had made to Abraham so many years ago. And here is Jesus saying the kingdom is at hand, which is incredible,

amazing. Now, today, Jesus is going to be talking about the signs of the kingdom. So we recognized

yesterday, we talked about everyone is called to enter the kingdom, that yes, salvation is from the

Jews. And then it goes to the Gentiles, right? It goes to the whole world, everyone is called to enter

the kingdom. The kingdom belongs to the poor and the lowly yesterday. We talked about how Jesus invites sinners to the table that, yes, he calls everyone, no matter how broken we are, but he also calls us to repent, calls us to change, calls us to belong to him. We have to die in order to live. Today, there are the signs of the kingdom of God, which means that it wasn't

just that Jesus came along and said, oh, by the way, the kingdom of God is at hand for you,

and everyone just followed it along. He had to demonstrate that he was the Messiah, that he is the

Messiah, with many mighty works and wonders and signs, which manifest the fact that the kingdom

is present in him and attest that he is

the promised Messiah. So this is important. We're going to talk about how that's one of the things,

one of the many things that Jesus' miracles, his signs and wonders, pointed to. They pointed to

the fact that, yes, the kingdom of God is at hand, that he truly is the anointed one, the king

of the eternal kingdom.

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