Day 185: Thanksgiving, Memorial, Presence (2026)
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The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz)
14 min
1 speaker
4 chapters
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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 185. We're reading paragraphs 13, 56, 47, to 1361. 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.
To download your own Catechism and your reading plan, you can visit ascensionpress.com slash CIY, and you can also click follow or subscribe in your daily podcast app for daily updates and daily notifications. And every single day, here we are, day 185. Also, you know, this is crazy. I don't know if you've thought about this. I sometimes think about this. It's day 185. And I mentioned yesterday and kind of the day before that we just passed halfway, which is awesome. So good. And have you ever noticed? I don't know. I listen to podcasts and I love them. And I realized I get this for free and someone pays for it, right? There's no such thing as a free lunch. Someone pays for this. So I'm so grateful, you know, because people have supported the production of this podcast with their prayers, their financial gifts.
So just thank you for all of you who do that. I'm just so grateful that the rest of us get to just listen for free.
What passages and paragraphs are we reading on Day 185 of Catechism in a Year?
It's awesome. It's insane. Okay. Anyways, here we are. Day 185, paragraphs 1356 to 1361. We're at the heart of talking about the Eucharist today, which is just a beautiful, incredible. We're not, I mean, there's a bunch of days left to talk about the Eucharist and I'm here for it because what a gift. Okay. What are we going to talk about today? We're going to talk about the fact that what I kind of mentioned yesterday, And by kind of mentioned, I went into it a lot, that the fact that the Eucharist is the memorial of our Lord's sacrifice. That when we enter into the Mass, we offer to the Father what he himself has given to us. It's incredible. And this is, I mean, this is anything we give to God. Everything we give to God is giving to God what he's given to us.
If I give him my heart, well, he gave me my heart. If I give, you know, I don't know, to charity, well, God is the one who made it possible for me to be able to have any kind of means. Everything we give to God originates with him. And the same is true when it comes to the Eucharist and the great sacrifice of the Mass. We'll talk about how the Eucharist is thanksgiving and praise. It's a sacrifice at the heart of it, though, as we said yesterday. Because why? Because we know the heart of religion is worship and the heart of worship is sacrifice. So as we launch into these six short paragraphs today, this call to mind is What God has done for us, call upon his Holy Spirit. And in the name of Jesus, let's talk to our Father in heaven.
Father, we know that you love us. We know that you have given your own son so we can have life and have it to the full. We know what he has done for us in offering himself in sacrifice to you. a sacrifice of love, a sacrifice of praise, a sacrifice of thanksgiving. We know that that sacrifice has changed the course of every one of our lives because that sacrifice, the sacrifice of your Son, made it possible for us to have access to you. Help us to participate in this sacrifice, the sacrifice of the Mass, with our whole heart. Help us to participate in the sacrifice of the Mass as if every time we approach the Mass, we approach as if it's our first Mass, our last Mass, and our only Mass. 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 185. We are reading paragraphs 1356 to 1361. The Sacramental Sacrifice Thanksgiving Memorial Presents
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Chapters
4 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:05–1:25
2
What passages and paragraphs are we reading on Day 185 of Catechism in a Year?
1:25–6:34
3
How does the episode introduce the Eucharist as thanksgiving, praise, and sacrifice?
6:34–7:29
4
Why does the host call the Mass the memorial of Christ’s sacrifice and what does that mean?
7:29–14:06