Day 108: Revealed by the Holy Spirit (2025)
The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz)
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🗓️ 18 April 2025
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Summary
Jesus Christ established the Church, but the Holy Spirit continually sanctifies the Church with wisdom, guidance, and charismatic gifts. The Church’s mission is to proclaim and establish the beginning of God’s Kingdom on earth, and we participate in this mission through charity, humility, and self-denial. Fr. Mike helps us understand the seemingly paradoxical idea that the Church is visible and spiritual, both human and Divine. Today’s readings are Catechism paragraphs 767-771.
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 a Year podcast, |
| 0:09.8 | where we encounter God's plan of sheer goodness for us, revealed in scripture, and passed down through |
| 0:14.5 | the tradition of the Catholic faith. The Catechism in a Year is brought to you by Ascension. |
| 0:18.9 | In 365 days, we'll read through the Catechism |
| 0:21.7 | of the Catholic Church, discovering our identity in God's family as we journey together toward |
| 0:26.4 | our heavenly home. It is day 108. We are reading paragraphs 767 to 771. As always, I'm using |
| 0:32.2 | the Ascension edition of the Catechism, which includes the Foundations of Faith Approach. You can |
| 0:36.6 | follow along with any recent version of the Catechism of the includes the foundations of faith approach. You can follow along with any |
| 0:37.5 | recent version of the Catechism of the Catholic Church. Also, you can download your own catechism in a |
| 0:41.9 | year reading plan by visiting ascensionpress.com slash CIY. And lastly, you can click follow or |
| 0:47.1 | subscribe or whatever you're listening to this podcast for daily updates and daily notifications. |
| 0:51.7 | As I said, today is day 10. We were, we are reading paragraph |
| 0:54.6 | 767 to 771. Yesterday, we talked about how the God's plan was a church, right? This is a plan |
| 1:02.5 | born of the Father's heart, that God has always willed that there would be this gathering |
| 1:06.8 | of peoples. We call it the church, or convocation is another word that we use today in paragraph |
| 1:10.6 | 767. Yesterday, we also heard that Jesus Christ instituted the church. Now, we didn't |
| 1:17.3 | talk about the historical reality of that in the sense that I remember years ago. I think it |
| 1:21.9 | was a Dear Abbey column. You remember Abigail Van Buren? And someone wrote to Dear Abby and said, Dear Abby, who founded all the churches of the world? |
| 1:31.1 | And so Abigail Van Buren, I think it was born, or at least culturally Jewish. |
| 1:34.3 | I'm not sure if she was religiously Jewish, but she didn't have a dog in the hunt, basically. |
| 1:37.6 | She says, you know, well, Confucianism was started by Confucius in this year and Judaism was started by Abraham in this year. |
| 1:46.0 | And she said that Catholic Church, Roman Catholic Church, was started in the year 33 by Jesus Christ. |
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