Day 133: Devotion to Mary (2025)
The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz)
Ascension
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🗓️ 13 May 2025
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Summary
When we show devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary, we fulfill her prophecy that “all generations will call me blessed.” The Catechism clearly shows us how such devotion does not compete with devotion to God, but in fact fosters adoration of God. Fr. Mike declares that the better we know Mary, the better we know Jesus, and the more we love Mary, the more we love Jesus. Today’s readings are Catechism paragraphs 971-975.
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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| 1:05.5 | Hi, my name is Father Mike Schmitz, and you're listening to the Catechism in a year podcast, |
| 1:09.6 | where we encounter God's plan of sheer goodness for us, revealed in scripture and passed it down through the tradition |
| 1:14.3 | of the Catholic faith. The Catechism in a year is brought to you by Ascension. In 365 days, |
| 1:19.2 | we'll read through the Catechism of the Catholic Church discovering our identity in God's |
| 1:23.0 | family as we journey together toward our heavenly home. This is day 133. You guys were reading paragraphs 971 to 975. |
| 1:29.7 | It is a little mix of two paragraphs and then a couple nuggets. |
| 1:32.8 | And as always, I'm using the Ascension edition of the Catechism, which includes the foundations of faith approach. |
| 1:37.9 | But you can follow along with any recent version of the Catechism of the Catholic Church. |
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| 1:49.4 | app for daily updates and daily notifications today is day 133, paragraphs 971 to 975. As I said, |
| 1:54.7 | there's only two, essentially two paragraphs, 971 and 972. And then we have three bullets, |
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