Hi my name is Father Mike Schmitz and you're listening to the

Catechism and year podcast where we encounter God's plan of sheer goodness

for us revealed in scripture and passed down to the

tradition of the Catholic faith. The Catechism in years brought to you by

Ascension. In 365 days we'll read through the entire catechism of the

Catholic Church discovering our identity in God's family as we journey

together toward our heavenly home. This is day 8. We're reading paragraphs 59 to 64, how God chooses

Abraham, he forms his people Israel, he purifies and shapes the people through the prophets and through the covenants.

A few reminders before we get started, as we get started, I'm using the Ascension Edition of the Catechism,

which includes the Foundation of

Faith approach but you can follow along with any recent version of the

Catechism of the Catholic Church also you can follow along with our reading

plan by visiting ascension press.com slash

cayy also you can click follow-up subscribe to listen to your

podcast this podcast wherever you listen to podcast you can do that today you know it's

day eight and one of the things that we

I don't know I don't know what your experience has been because it's kind of

of almost like I don't how would I say this it kind of feels like a little bit of

slow going it kind of feels like remember how if you went

through the Bible in the year one of the things that we we went through was was

just like okay yeah I'm hearing that same story again okay here's the same

story again like remember when we had numbers in Deuteronomy at the same time and it was like,

...