Day 206: Healing the Sick (2026)
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The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz)
18 min
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4 chapters
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How does Day 206 introduce the theme of healing and the reading assignment?
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 206, reading paragraphs 1506 to 1513. 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.
I'm going fast this morning. Wow. You can also download your own catechism in your 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. Today is day 206. We're reading paragraphs 1506 to 1513. Yesterday, we talked about illness in human life and the sick person before God, how Jesus Christ is the physician. And also, today we're moving on, that Jesus invites his disciples to follow him by taking up their cross in their turn. But also, Jesus gives out in the Holy Spirit a special charism of healing. One of the reasons for healing, the miracles, the mighty works, will often accompany the proclamation of the gospel.
That if someone comes along and says, you know, we talked about this before many times. If Jesus himself comes along and says, I am God, people would say, well, okay, well, before I believe you, you need to prove it. So the healings are not only a sign of God's love and care for the poor, care for the sick. They're also signs that he is who he says he is. Similarly, he sends out his apostles, right? Sends out his disciples and tells them to heal as well, not only as a sign of his love and a sign of his care for all the people, but also as a sign that the message, the message of the gospel is true. And so that's going to be one of the signs. And then we're going to talk today about the sacrament of the sick, and how actually does the sacrament of the anointing of the sick actually get played out?
When I say played out, you know what I'm saying. How about how the sacrament of the anointing of the sick gets prayed out? See what I did there? So let's, in order to enter into the reading for today, paragraphs 1506 to 1513, let us call upon our Heavenly Father in the name of Jesus Christ and pray in the power of the Holy Spirit as we pray, Father in heaven, We love you and we know without a doubt that you love us. We know that whether you heal us or whether you are just present to us in the midst of our pain, in the midst of our suffering, we know that you love us. Lord God, for all the moments when it's difficult, difficult to acknowledge this, difficult to accept your love as it is, difficult to accept your will, Lord God, as often as it is hard to not be healed,
We ask that you please come and meet us with your strength and meet us with your grace. Help our hearts not to become hardened to you, but help our hearts to continue to melt in your presence.
Help us always to trust you and help us to never stay far from you, especially when we need you the most. in our woundedness, in our wickedness, in our suffering, and in our sickness. Be with us this day and every day. Help us choose you this day and every day.
In Jesus' name we pray, amen. In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, amen. This is day 206. We're reading paragraphs 1506 to 1513. Heal the sick. Christ invites his disciples to follow him by taking up their cross in their turn. By following him, they acquire a new outlook on illness and the sick. Jesus associates them with his own life of poverty and service. He makes them share in his ministry of compassion and healing. So they went out and preached that men should repent, and they cast out many demons and anointed with oil many that were sick and healed them.
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Chapters
4 chapters
1
How does Day 206 introduce the theme of healing and the reading assignment?
0:05–5:41
2
Why does Jesus send disciples to heal and how do miracles confirm the Gospel?
5:41–10:05
3
How does the episode pray and prepare listeners before the reading?
10:05–15:42
4
What does the Catechism say about Christians taking up the cross and viewing illness differently?
15:42–18:23