Day 200: The Confession of Sins (2026)
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The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz)
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What is the focus of Day 200 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 200 out of 365. Congratulations. We are reading paragraphs 1455 to 1460. As always, I'm using the Ascension edition of the Catechism, which includes the Foundations of Faith approach, 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 for these last 165 days. And you can click follow or subscribe in your podcast app for daily updates and daily notifications. Also, quick thank you. It's been 200 days, 200 amazing, blessed, incredible days. And I cannot begin to thank all of the people who have prayed for each other, prayed for me, prayed for all of the people who are producing this podcast, those who have offered financial gifts so we can keep making this podcast for free. Honestly, could not do this without you. Couldn't get to day 200, much less day 365 without you. Thank you so much. We have been talking about the sacrament of healing, sacrament of forgiveness, the sacrament of reconciliation.
Yesterday, we talked about the acts of the penitent, right? That we have to have contrition. Now, there are two more acts of the penitent, two more things that we all bring to confession. It's not only contrition, that sorrow for sins and a determination to resolve to turn away from sin, but also secondarily, the confession of sins. We actually have to disclose our sins. And thirdly, satisfaction. At some point, we desire to make reparation. At some point, we recognize that our sin has cost something. And sometimes that thing is a physical thing. Sometimes it's a material thing, right? Where, okay, I need to make satisfaction. If I stole 50 bucks from Bob, I owe Bob 50 bucks. Even though I'm forgiven, I still have to make restitution as much as I possibly can.
If I've hurt someone emotionally, if I've damaged their reputation, I need to strive to do something to make that right. And if I've hurt myself, like I've hurt my, I've wounded my soul, well, we do penance as a way to heal the soul, not as it was so much a way to embrace punishment as much as it is to embrace healing. We'll talk about that today. So as we launch into today, let's call upon our God and pray in his presence, call upon his name and pray. Father in heaven, we thank you. We thank you so much for this day. We thank you for leading us and walking us through these teachings of your Holy Catholic Church that you established in Jesus Christ and have continued to guide by the power of the Holy Spirit.
Please, Lord, help us today to once again approach your teaching, the teaching of your church, not as simply more data gathering, not just simply as another kind of item of interest, something to learn, but Something to penetrate our hearts and minds and transform the way we live. Lord God, let this be transformation. Let this be an opportunity for conversion. In this day particularly, I ask you to please move all the hearts of those who have been away from confession for a long time. Help all of us to bring our sins before you, to trust you, to trust your mercy, to trust your love, and to trust the grace of your sacrament. We make this prayer in the mighty name of Jesus Christ, our Lord, in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.
Amen. It is day 200, and we are reading paragraphs 1455 to 1460. The confession or disclosure of sins, even from a simply human point of view, frees us and facilitates our reconciliation with others. Through such an admission, man looks squarely at the sins he is guilty of, takes responsibility for them, and thereby opens himself again to God and to the communion of the church in order to make a new future possible.
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Chapters
4 chapters
1
What is the focus of Day 200 and which Catechism paragraphs are we reading?
0:05–6:09
2
Why is confession considered an essential act in the sacrament of Reconciliation?
6:09–14:27
3
How does confessing sins 'give God access' to heal our wounds?
14:27–16:04
4
What does the Catechism say about which sins must be confessed to a priest?
16:04–23:46