Day 195: Penance and Reconciliation (2026)
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The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz)
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What is the focus of Day 195 and which Catechism paragraphs are we reading?
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 195. We're reading paragraphs 1420 to 1426. As always, I am 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.
That stands for Catechism in a Year, in case you're... wondering, crack the code. Here we are. Also, you can click follow or subscribe in your podcast app for daily updates and daily notifications. Also, thank you again. I don't want to thank people too often, but it's a big deal. Thank you so much for everyone who's listening. This is day 195. This is crazy. I mean, the fact that for 195 to almost 200 days of this year, we've been on this journey together, which is... I was actually praying about this this morning and I just blown away, blown away by the fact because at first, you remember, remember at the beginning of this year when people were talking about Dave Earbum and instead of Dave Earbum and there's an excitement there, there's, you know, kind of like a rolling out of the Bible in a year, like let's launch into the catechism in a year.
Super good. And of course, with any year long thing, people, you know, we start, we stop, we start again. But here you are on day 195. And thank you so much for being part of this. And thank you for being part of the production of this podcast with your prayers and financial gifts. But above everything else, thank you so much for just walking, walking with me, walking with each other. It means a lot to me. We're getting paragraphs 1420 to 1426 today. We're in chapter two of this section, you know, the second pillar of the catechism, sacraments of healing. So we had the sacraments of initiation, right? Baptism and confirmation and holy communion, Eucharist. Today, we're starting this second section, chapter two, on the sacraments of healing.
And we're beginning by talking about the sacrament of penance and reconciliation. And just what an incredible opportunity that we have, that we need the sacrament of conversion. We need this sacrament of confession, forgiveness, reconciliation. Why? Because, well, we all know why. We need it because even though baptism is united us to the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, made us into the sons and daughters of the Father, made us temples of the Holy Spirit, made us, you know, we have a filial relationship, brotherly relationship with Jesus, filled us with these graces, forgave our sins. We also know that we still are broken. And so because we're still broken, because we're still wounded, We need healing.
And because we still wander away, we need reconciliation. And because we still have a hard heart, we need conversion. And so today, that's what we're going to talk about. We're going to talk about why this sacrament of reconciliation after baptism and what is this whole thing called? Because as we learned when it came to Holy Communion, the names of the sacraments, they reveal something different. You know, the names, different names reveal different dimensions of the sacraments. So that's what we're going to do today. Let's say a prayer as we start. Father in heaven, we give you praise and glory. Thank you so much for this day. Thank you for bringing us today, 195. We thank you, not only for giving us new birth and regeneration in baptism, but also giving us the healing, your healing in the sacrament of reconciliation, your healing and anointing of the sick.
Lord God, for as often as we wander, you pursue us.
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Chapters
4 chapters
1
What is the focus of Day 195 and which Catechism paragraphs are we reading?
0:05–9:21
2
Why begin a new section on the sacraments of healing and what does chapter two cover?
9:21–11:09
3
Why do we still need the sacrament of Penance after Baptism?
11:09–20:03
4
How does the Catechism describe the Church continuing Christ’s healing ministry?
20:03–20:23