Day 191: The Eucharist Changes Us (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 a heavenly home. This is day 191. We are reading paragraphs 1391 to 1395, just a few short paragraphs today. As always, I'm using the Ascension edition of the Catechism, which includes the Foundations of Faith approach, If 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.
And you can also click follow or subscribe in your podcast app for daily updates and daily notifications. Today is day 191. We're reading paragraphs, as I said already, 1391 to 1395. We can sometimes forget. what is it that happens to us when we receive Holy Communion? Like, what are the fruits of Holy Communion? That's what we're talking about today, the fruits of Holy Communion, because what happens to us, what happens in us, kind of like we talked about the five effects of confirmation, that sometimes it's really helpful to spell out, okay, roots us more deeply as sons and daughters of God the Father, roots us more deeply, unites us more closely to Christ, we become even more filled with the gifts of the Holy Spirit, et cetera, et cetera, right?
Well, It's also worth knowing and noting what happens when we receive Holy Communion. Well, we're going to hear today that it not only strengthens and augments our union with Christ, it also separates us from sin. It wipes away venial sins and also preserves us from future mortal sins. We're talking about that. Tomorrow, we'll talk about even more things that it does. But today, as we launch into this day of just these few short paragraphs, where you just get to open your heart and open your mind to this is what can happen every time I approach our Lord in Holy Communion. So in order to prepare ourselves to hear about this, let us pray. That's easy. Wow, that sounded really profound. In order to prepare ourselves to hear about this, let's pray.
Let's do that. Anyways, here we go. Oh man, Father in heaven, we praise you and we glorify you. We thank you so much for this day. Thank you for bringing us to this day. Lord, you give us life. You give us your love and you pour it out into our hearts in abundance without measure. Lord God, you do not ration your Holy Spirit, but you pour out your spirit upon us and into our hearts, into our lives, to whatever degree we are willing and open to receive you. Please, help us become more willing to receive your love. Help us to become even more open to receive your grace now and always. 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 191. We are reading paragraphs 1391 to 1395.
The fruits of Holy Communion. Holy Communion augments our union with Christ. The principal fruit of receiving the Eucharist and Holy Communion is an intimate union with Christ Jesus. Indeed, the Lord said, He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood abides in me, and I in him. Life in Christ has its foundation in the Eucharistic banquet. Jesus said, As the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father, so he who eats me will live because of me. On the feasts of the Lord, when the faithful receive the body of the Son, they proclaim to one another the good news that the first fruits of life have been given. As when the angel said to Mary Magdalene, Christ is risen, now too are life and resurrection conferred on whoever receives Christ.
What material food produces in our bodily life, Holy Communion wonderfully achieves in our spiritual life. Communion with the flesh of the risen Christ, a flesh given life and giving life through the Holy Spirit, preserves, increases, and renews the life of grace received at baptism.
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