Day 190: Receiving Holy Communion (2026)
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The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz)
19 min
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3 chapters
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Hi, my name's 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 190. Congratulations. That's a milestone. We're reading paragraphs 1384 to 1390. As always, I'm using the Ascension edition of the Catechism. which includes a 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 C-I-Y. You can click follow or subscribe in your podcast app for daily updates, daily notifications, which you already know. I mean, for Pete's sake, this has been a part of your life. The last 190 days. That's amazing. Or at least the last 189 days. Here is day 190. What do they say? 30 days to build a habit, 90 days to build a habit. You've been building this habit for 190. I mean, again, it's a milestone. I think it's a milestone and congratulations. It's just really incredible. Thank you for those who have not only joined us, but also prayed for us. I say every day I'm praying for you and truly at the mass, every single mass I offer, I'm always, always remembering.
all of you and i have no idea sometimes people share here's what i'm going through here's what i'm experiencing and i'm like okay we're on it when it comes to prayer sometimes it's just okay god whoever's out there i truly am praying for you so thank you so much for your prayers as well and your financial gifts we couldn't do this without you today as we said it's day 190 paragraphs 1384 to 1390 yesterday we talked about the real presence of jesus in the While the heart of religion is worship and the heart of worship is sacrifice. The Eucharist is not only a sacrifice. It is both. And it is a sacrificial memorial of the sacrifice of the cross and the sacred banquet of the communion with our Lord's body and blood.
It is both. And it's great. Incredible. I mean, when I say great, I mean like how great thou art, like amazingly great, amazing grace. So today we're continuing to talk about that because we only kind of mentioned it yesterday, the Paschal Banquet, but but we're gonna talk a little bit more about this. So in order to receive our Lord's presence, in order to receive him, right? Because communion is this feasting upon our Lord and God who told us, take and eat, right? Take and drink. Because of this, we have to prepare ourselves for so great and for so holy a moment. And so we're gonna talk about this today. How do I prepare myself? What kind of obligations do I have in order to receive holy communion in a worthy manner we know that none of us are worthy truly but we have to make sure that we are as prepared as possible to be able to receive holy communion in a way that transforms our lives and so we're going to talk about that today what are some of not just the conditions for receiving holy communion but what are the the preparations we can make to receive holy communion in a worthy way there might be some times when we ought not to receive holy communion we'll talk about that today as well so as we enter into this day
We just give God thanks and praise as we pray. Father in heaven, we thank you. We give you praise and glory. You are the God who has given your son and your son has given himself. You have both have given your Holy Spirit to us as the one who makes actual and makes present what Jesus made possible. And so we ask you to please send once again your Holy Spirit into our lives, into our hearts. Send your Holy Spirit, the same Holy Spirit that is active and that unites us to you, the Holy Spirit that lives inside of us, the Holy Spirit that allows us to cry out, Abba, Father.
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