Day 208: Completing the Earthly Pilgrimage (2026)
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The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz)
16 min
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3 chapters
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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 208. We're reading paragraphs 1520 to 1525. As always, I'm 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 and 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 because today is day 208, paragraphs 1520 to 1525. This is the last little section before the in-brief, before the nuggets. And before chapter three, the sacraments at the service of communion, which are sacraments of matrimony and holy orders. We're talking about that. And then, I don't know, we'll say the day after tomorrow. Yeah, the day after tomorrow. But today we have the effects of the celebration of this sacrament. So if you recall this at all, I was gonna say back in the day, but it's a couple of weeks away. We talked about the effects of confirmation and how I kind of shared how powerful, how profound that was for me to hear, oh my gosh, this is what the sacrament does.
Kind of the same thing when it comes to the sacrament, the effects of the celebration of the sacrament of confession, reconciliation we talked about a couple of days ago. The effects of the sacrament of the anointing of the sick is remarkable. In fact, there are a couple that just will bullet point them and then we'll launch into a prayer and then launch into the reading today. First, it's a particular gift of the Holy Spirit. It's a very special gift of the Holy Spirit at the end of one's life or for healing.
What passages and paragraphs are we reading on Day 208?
Secondly, there's union with the passion of Christ. That's another effect. We're even more united to the passion, right? The suffering and death of Jesus. Also, it's an ecclesial grace where God pours out the grace of the church upon the person, brings them even more, I don't want to say even more closely in the church because they're already fully initiated, hopefully, but brings them kind of to the heart of the church in some ways, right? Because the church, as the body of Christ, continues on this earth to suffer for and with Christ. Also, it's preparation for the final journey. And that last note, it gets highlighted in the last two paragraphs, 1524 and 1525, where we talk about viaticum, which is when you receive Holy Communion at the very end of your life, that last time receiving Holy Communion, that bread for the journey, that food for the way.
And so we're going to talk about those things today as we talk about this incredible and holy moment. Yeah, holy moment at the end of one's life or even holy moment when someone's in the midst of suffering. It has the capacity, right? It has the capacity to be life-changing, life-transforming. Not just the end of one's life, which obviously is life-changing and life-transforming, but life-changing. those dark moments of life, those difficult moments of life, those moments of sickness, those moments of suffering where all we can do sometimes is just suffer. Sometimes all it feels like we can do is just be in the midst of it. Here is Jesus who is also in the midst of it. Here is the church who's in the midst of it.
And so we call upon our Father right now as we pray. Father in heaven, Thank you for this moment. Thank you for this day. We know that so many of our brothers and sisters who are part of this podcast, they, on this day, are experiencing a great trial. They're experiencing suffering. They're experiencing sickness. Lord, on this day, many of those who are listening to this podcast may themselves be in danger of death at the moment of their deaths or facing death of someone they love.
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