Day 203: The Purpose of Indulgences (2026)
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The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz)
23 min
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6 chapters
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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 our heavenly home. This is day 203. We're reading paragraphs 1474 to 1484, taking our way all the way to the nuggets at the end of this section on reconciliation. 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 C-I-Y. And you can click follow or subscribe in your podcast app for daily updates and daily notifications. As I said, today's day 203, reading paragraphs 1474 to 1484. Today, we're going to talk about some more stuff about the communion of saints and obtaining indulgences. We started indulgences yesterday. But we're also going to go through, like, what's the actual celebration of the sacrament of reconciliation, the sacrament of penance? Like, what's the form? What's the matter? Like, what's going on during that celebration of the sacrament of reconciliation? So two things here. Again, indulgences, finishing up indulgences, and then penance.
How do we actually go to confession? How does that take place both here in the West as well as little kind of notes about how it might happen in other liturgies or other liturgical traditions, not just the Latin Rite, but maybe the Byzantine liturgy. We might have a little sprinkle of some flavor in there. So as we launch into today, let's just call upon God and just place ourselves in God's presence, knowing that he is the father of mercies. He is the God of all goodness.
What will we cover today about indulgences and penance?
And he is the one who forgives our sins through his son in the power of the Holy Spirit. Let's pray. Father in heaven, we praise you and glorify your name. We thank you so much. Again, let our time begin with praise. Let thanksgiving and praise go up first. Help us to praise you when we are thriving and when it's easy to forget you. Help us praise you when we are struggling and it's difficult to see you. Lord God, help us to praise you when we need your mercy and help us to praise you when we have received your mercy. Help us in this day to walk in grace. Help us this day to recognize that we are not alone. We are surrounded by the great cloud of witnesses, the church, and help us take that next step, whatever that next step is, to grow closer and closer to you and your sacred heart, your merciful heart.
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 203. We're reading paragraphs 1474 to 1484. In the communion of saints, the Christian who seeks to purify himself of his sin and to become holy with the help of God's grace is not alone. The life of each of God's children is joined in Christ and through Christ in a wonderful way to the life of all the other Christian brethren in the supernatural unity of the mystical body of Christ as in a single mystical person. In the communion of saints, a perennial link of charity exists between the faithful who have already reached their heavenly home, those who are expiating their sins in purgatory, and those who are still pilgrims on earth.
Between them, there is too an abundant exchange of all good things. in this wonderful exchange the holiness of one profits others well beyond the harm that the sin of one could cause others thus recourse to the communion of saints lets the contrite sinner be more promptly and efficaciously purified of the punishments for sin we also call these spiritual goods of the communion of saints the church's treasury which is not the sum total of the material goods which have accumulated during the course of the centuries
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:05–1:42
2
What will we cover today about indulgences and penance?
1:42–13:35
3
How does the Catechism define the Communion of Saints?
13:35–15:36
4
What is the 'treasury of the Church' and who contributes to it?
15:36–20:13
5
How does the Church obtain indulgences for individuals and the departed?
20:13–23:24
6
What are the ordinary elements in the celebration of the Sacrament of Penance?
23:24–23:26