Day 266: The Gift of Grace (2026)
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What is the purpose of today’s prayer and how does it set the tone for the episode?
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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 sure goodness for us, revealed in Scripture and passed down through the tradition of the Catholic faith. The Catechism in Year is brought to you by Ascension. In three hundred and sixty-five days, we'll read through the Catechism of the Catholic Church, discovering our identity and God's family as we journey together. Dr. Heavenly Home, this is day two hundred and sixty-six. It's Nugget Day for reading paragraphs twenty seventeen to twenty twenty-nine. As all 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 in a Year Reading Plan by visiting AscensionPress.com slash CIY. And lastly, you can click follow sub follow or subscribe on your podcast app for daily updates and daily notifications today. Day two sixty six, day twenty seventeen to twenty twenty nine. It is not lost on me that this is, you know. The year. The year we are in right now. Whether you're listening in 2023, 2024, 2027, it's your paragraph is your year. I don't do that make sense. I don't know. Sometimes I look at numbers and think, okay, here we are. But it's nugget day, you guys. And not only is it nugget day, we are reading so many nuggets. They're 2017 to 2029. Because why? I mean, we've been looking at salvation and the salvation that requirement.
Uh that we're a first that we're called, that we're called by the Lord God to belong to him in this completely unique way. He's given us grace, and we are justified by grace through faith, working us up out in love. Of course, we're called to respond to that grace and it with our free will. And, you know, we have merit, we have Christian holiness. All these topics we've been talking about for the last number of days, we get to be summarized here in our in our nuggets, Nugget 2017 to 2029. So before
How does the Catechism define justification and what are its two main aspects?
Before we launch into this uh thorough nugget day, as one might say, the entire chicken, we are gonna say a prayer. Father in heaven, we give you praise and glory. Thank you so much for bringing for getting us here. Thank you so much for for leading us and guiding us to this to this day, to this moment where We have an opportunity to be reminded of the great call you've placed in our lives, what you've done for us by your life, death, and resurrection, the life, death, and resurrection of your son, by pouring out your Holy Spirit into our hearts, by giving us your spirit, your life, your grace through the sacraments. helping us live that out in faith. Lord God, in this moment, this day, we ask you to please help us, help us to not only boldly proclaim the faith,
But to allow the faith to guide every step of our lives, every thought we have, every movement of our heart Let that faith, that trust in you Be the impetus that guides us. Let our love for you, actually even more so, your love for us be the power that moves us. 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 two hundred and sixty six we're reading paragraphs twenty seventeen to twenty twenty nine.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is the purpose of today’s prayer and how does it set the tone for the episode?
0:01–2:37
2
How does the Catechism define justification and what are its two main aspects?
2:37–5:54
3
What does conversion look like according to paragraphs 2018‑2020 – turning away from sin and turning toward God?
5:54–8:10
4
How does prevenient grace prepare us before we even respond?
8:10–10:05
5
What is sanctifying (habitual) grace and how does it make us pleasing to God?
10:05–12:04
6
What are charisms and how are they meant to build up the Body of Christ?
12:04–14:01
7
How is merit explained in the Catechism – what role does God’s grace play?
14:01–16:16
8
Why is God’s gift of salvation described as unmerited and free, and how should we respond?
16:16–17:54