Day 11: Sources of Divine Revelation
The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz)
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🗓️ 11 January 2023
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
Fr. Mike breaks down the Catechism’s teaching that divine revelation consists of both Sacred Scripture and Sacred Tradition and emphasizes why both sources are of equal importance in the Faith. He also clarifies the difference between Apostolic Tradition and ecclesial traditions. Lastly, Fr. Mike encourages us to receive with docility the teachings and directives of the Magisterium of the Church, trusting in the authority of the Pope and the bishops. Today’s readings are Catechism paragraphs 80-87.
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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, |
| 0:09.6 | where we encounter God's plan of sheer goodness for us, revealed in the Scripture and passed |
| 0:13.4 | down to the tradition of the Catholic faith. The Catechism in a Year is brought to you by |
| 0:17.1 | ascension in 365 days. We will read through the Catechism of the Catholic Church, discovering |
| 0:22.9 | our identity in God's family as we journey together toward our heavenly home. This is day 11. You |
| 0:28.6 | guys, I can't even begin. I want to let you know some things. First, is I'm using the ascension |
| 0:32.8 | edition of the Catechism, which includes the foundations of faith approach. You can follow along |
| 0:36.5 | with that one or with any recent version of the Catechism of the Catholic Church. That'd be just |
| 0:40.4 | great to download your own Catechism in a Year reading plan. Visit ascensionpress.com slash |
| 0:44.9 | C-I-Y. Also, you can follow or subscribe by clicking on those those words, I guess, in your podcast |
| 0:50.3 | app for daily notifications. Okay, here's why I'm so excited. It is day 11. We're reading |
| 0:54.8 | paragraphs 80 through 87 today. I mentioned this yesterday on day 10. I was like, you know, |
| 0:59.3 | it seems like we're getting, how are we going to get some traction here today? Well, yesterday |
| 1:04.0 | was pretty awesome. I don't know. When we started talking about how here is the Apostolic tradition |
| 1:08.8 | that handed down in orally and in writing. We gave us divine revelation. It's just so good. |
| 1:13.6 | Sacred Scripture and Sacred Tradition today. We're going to hear even more about the relationship |
| 1:18.4 | between tradition, sacred tradition, holy tradition, and sacred scripture. And it's just, oh my gosh, |
| 1:24.4 | you guys, one of the things that people will oftentimes miss to get mistaken, be mistaken about, |
| 1:29.2 | be mistaken about is we think, oh, so the Bible, that's divine revelation. And you say, yeah, |
| 1:35.5 | yeah, it is, but it's not the only divine revelation that we have sacred scripture. |
| 1:40.4 | Definitely, we heard about that yesterday. The Apostles wrote down, Apostles or there, |
| 1:45.0 | the people connected with the Apostles wrote things down. But also divine revelation |
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