Day 107: Origin of the Church (2025)

The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz)

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🗓️ 17 April 2025

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Summary

The origin of the Church is just one of the ways we can come to know the depth of God’s love for us. From the very beginning, the Church, as a gathering of the people of God, has been a plan born of the Father’s heart. Fr. Mike explains that Jesus Christ instituted the Church, that salvation comes to us through the Holy Spirit in the Church, and that this was God’s plan from the very beginning of time. The Church is not man-made; the Church is God-made, and it is a great gift to us. Today’s readings are Catechism paragraphs 758-766.

This episode has been found to be in conformity with the Catechism by the Institute on the Catechism, under the Subcommittee on the Catechism, USCCB.

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0:00.0	Hi, my name is Father Mike Schmitz, and you're listening to The Catechism in the Year podcast,
0:09.7	where we encounter God's Planish Your Goodness for us, revealed in scripture and passed down
0:13.7	through the tradition of the Catholic faith. The Catechism in a year is brought to you by Ascension.
0:17.8	In 365 days, we'll read through the Catechism of the Catholic Church.
0:21.4	Discovering our identity in God's family as we journeyed together toward our heavenly home.
0:25.1	This is Day 107. We are reading paragraphs 758 to 76 all about the church.
0:31.1	I am using the Ascension edition of the Catechism, which includes the Foundations of Faith Approach,
0:34.6	but you can follow along with any recent version of the catechism of the Catholic Church. People have even told me that you can even find
0:40.2	the catechism online for free. So that's good. Speaking of free, you can download your free
0:45.3	cagism in the year reading plan by visiting Accentiumpress.com slash CIY. And you can click
0:50.4	follow or subscribe in your podcast app for daily updates and daily notifications. As I said, it is day 107.
0:56.1	We're reading paragraphs 758 to 766.
0:58.8	We're talking about the church, as we know, but also today, I just think this is amazing.
1:03.2	We're talking about the church's origin, foundation and mission.
1:06.1	In fact, the origin of the church today, the church, the catechism here, will divide the origin of the church
1:11.7	basically saying that from the moment of God's not just creating the world, but from the moment of
1:17.2	the fall, God's plan was the church, that from the very beginning, the moment we broke away from
1:22.7	the Lord in rebellion, and we also broke our own hearts and we also broke our relationships with
1:26.9	each other.
1:32.8	From that moment, God determined to call it together in a holy church, those who should believe in Christ. Basically, you know, with God's love immediately, not I don't want to say shifts,
1:38.4	but God's love doesn't stop, doesn't wafer, right? So God's love originally, plan A is that
1:43.7	we were created with
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