Hi, my name is Father Mike Schmitz, and you're listening to the Catechism in a Year podcast, where we encounter God's planet of sure 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 in God's family as we journeyed together toward our heavenly home. This is Day 80. You guys were reading paragraphs 561 and 570. You know what that means. If you've been following along, if you have a catechism, it is Nugget Day. It's the in-brief day, and we're so grateful for that. As always, I am using the Ascension edition of the

Catholic approach, which includes the foundations of faith approach, but you can follow along with any recent version of the Catechism of the Catholic Church, any one of them. They'll all work, which is amazing. You can also download your catechism into your reading plan by visiting ascensionpress.com slash CY, and if you did, you would know that we're on day 80 you probably figured out by now that the

reading plan basically starts at the beginning it goes all the way to the end but why would you get

the reading plan then well a so you would know what is the chunk for today and chunk for today is

the nuggets right 561 and 570 b because then you would know you'd have the ability to check things

off and there's little boxes on the thing you can check off the box and feel like you're making progress because you are, which is amazing. Okay. Also, you can click follow or subscribe and your podcast app for daily updates and daily notifications. Also, quick, just one brief. Thank you so much to all those who have supported the production of this podcast with your prayers.

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Thank you so much for your prayers. Thank you for your financial gift. If you've been able to or wanted to support us in this, thank you so much. Could not do without you. Okay. As we said, it's day 80. We're reading the nuggets, right? 561 all the way to 570. as we've already started.

This has been the mysteries of Jesus' life.

So these nuggets are going to be... right, 561, all the way to 570, as we've already started. You know, this has been the mysteries of Jesus' life.

So these nuggets are going to be mystery nuggets.

That sounds bad.

Kind of like going to a chicken place and getting nuggets there.

Mystery nuggets, meaning that, remember, all of Christ's life, all of his life is mystery.

And so we're going to recap all the way from the very

beginning where we have this great quote in 561 from John Paul II, where he says,

the whole of Christ's life was a continual teaching. And the very next two words are his silences.

His silences. So Jesus even teaches something in his silence, right? Even in that hidden life in Nazareth,

we have no idea. We have some idea. There's obedience that he grew in age and wisdom and grace.

But also there's so much we don't know. And even his silence reveals something to us.

Even that silence reveals something about is a teaching to us. It teaches us about the

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