Day 199: The Sacrament of Forgiveness (2026)
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The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz)
27 min
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Hi, my name is Fr. 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 199. We are reading paragraphs 1446-1449. to 1454. 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 click follow or subscribe in your podcast app for daily updates and daily notifications. Today, you guys, day 199, one day away from two bills, and what an incredible day it is. And what an incredible day it is. Oh my gosh. Here we go. Today we're continuing to talk about the sacrament of reconciliation. And so we said yesterday, noted how that sin, what sin is, it's above all offense against God. And it's also rupture of communion with the church. So only God can forgive sins yet. Through his church, he offers us forgiveness. And so we're going to talk about today how this sacrament developed over time, a little bit of that, because how we have it now, how we experience the sacrament of reconciliation at this point in time is not exactly the way that it was celebrated even for the first number of centuries in Christianity.
And so we're going to look at that. We're also going to look at what is it that that the fundamental structure, so some things have changed, some, you might say cosmetic things have changed, or maybe some practical things have changed, but the fundamental structure of the Sacrament of Reconciliation has remained the same. And that's what the penitent does, the person who's going to confession, and then what the Lord does through the church, that's remained the same. We're also gonna look at today, the beginning of the acts of the penitent. Again, so the penitent is the person going to confession, It requires the penitent does a couple of things or has a couple of things and is moved by a couple of things.
One is contrition. We also have confession. We have satisfaction. And we're only going to look at the first one today. We're looking at contrition. So what is it to have contrition or what is it to be contrite when it comes to coming before the Lord? and acknowledging our sins and turning back to him. Remember, we talked about this a couple days ago and yesterday as well, that interior repentance is a radical reorientation of our whole life, a return, a conversion to God with all our heart. And so because of that, We need to have this thing called contrition. We'll look at what that is today. So without any further ado, let us do a prayer. That doesn't make sense. Without anything further, let's just call upon our Heavenly Father in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit.
God in heaven, you are good and you are love and you call us back to yourself constantly. You continue to offer us and all peoples of the world reconciliation. You offer us your forgiveness because you are not only just, you are merciful. You not only are good and fair, you also extend your grace to us a grace that we do not deserve, but a grace that we do need. You give us your mercy. Lord God, help us to enter into your mercy. Help us to allow your mercy to enter into us. And give us the grace today to whatever it is that is our sin, whatever it is that's keeping us away from you, to say yes to your love, to say yes to your grace, and to say yes to mercy. Break our hearts. Break our hearts and make us contrite.
Break our hearts and help us fall more and more in love with you. Let us, help us to hate sin and to love you. In Jesus' name we pray, amen. In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, amen.
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