Day 154: Sacraments of Eternal Life (2026)
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The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz)
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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 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 154. We're reading paragraphs 1130 to 1134. There's some nuggets buried in there at the end of the day today. 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.
You can also download your own Catechism in a year reading plan by visiting ascensionpress.com slash CIY. And you can also click follow or subscribe in your podcast app to receive daily updates and daily notifications. Today is day 154. We were reading paragraphs 1130 to 1134. Actually, it's just one paragraph and then four little nuggets at the end here. And so we're coming to the conclusion, well, The conclusion of kind of an introduction, basically, the conclusion of chapter one, the mystery we're talking about, you know, yesterday we talked about how these are sacraments of salvation, that they're efficacious, right? They're powerful, that they act by the very act of the action, right? By the very work of the work, work worked, and also that they're necessary for salvation.
Today, we're talking about the fact that these are the sacraments of eternal life. So they bring heaven to earth right now, but they also are fulfilled in the kingdom of God. They're also fulfilled in eternity. And so there's this remarkable way in which the sacraments, again, we say this when it comes to the mass, where heaven and earth kiss, where time and eternity touch. And so that's what we experience now. We experience that right now, whenever we encounter our Lord in the mass, but also in the sacraments, but also there are foreshadowing of eternal life that we are going to share with our Lord. And so we keep praying in that. So every one of the sacraments really calls upon the Lord and asks the Lord to let his kingdom come, right?
Let the father's kingdom come, that we ask the spirit and the bride say, come Lord Jesus. So we're talking about that. And then Our in brief, our nuggets at the end are just going to be a good recap of what we've talked about in this first chapter. So as we get started, let's say a prayer. Father in heaven, we praise you and we glorify you.
We thank you so much. We thank you for the gift of your son. We thank you for the gift of life. Lord God, often we can overlook the fact that you have given us life. You've called us out of nothing and you have made us your children. And so often we can overlook the fact that you gave us new life today.
You originally gave us a life that we didn't deserve and you sustain this life that we don't deserve. We thank you because this life is good. Even in the valley of tears, this life is good because even in the midst of this valley of tears, you come and meet us with your grace. You come and meet us with your word. You share with us your very life. And even when we carry heavy burdens, Lord God, you have not abandoned us and you will not abandon us. You are here. And so we ask you, please come Lord Jesus, come and be with your people. Come Holy Spirit, come Father, so that you may be all in all. In Jesus name we pray. Amen. In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. It is day 154.
We are reading paragraphs 1130 to 1134. the sacraments of eternal life. The church celebrates the mystery of her Lord until he comes, when God will be everything to everyone. Since the apostolic age, the liturgy has been drawn toward its goal by the spirits groaning in the church, Maronatha. The liturgy thus shares in Jesus' desire, I have earnestly desired to eat this Passover with you until it is fulfilled in the kingdom of God.
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