Day 138: Summary of the Resurrection of the Body (2025)

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

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🗓️ 18 May 2025

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Summary

Together, with Fr. Mike, we arrive at the “nugget day” or summary for the Catechism paragraphs on the Resurrection and the Christian vision of death. Fr. Mike emphasizes that in the face of death, we must not grieve as though we have no hope. He also points out the importance of preparing for the hour of our death. Today’s readings are Catechism paragraphs 1012-1019.

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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Please note: The Catechism of the Catholic Church contains adult themes that may not be suitable for children - parental discretion is advised.

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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, where we
0:09.5	encounter God's plan of sheer goodness for us. revealed in scripture and passed down to the tradition
0:14.2	of the Catholic faith. The Catechism in a year is brought to you by Ascension. In 365 days, we'll read
0:19.4	through the Catechism of the Catholic Church,
0:21.0	discovering our identity in God's family as we journey together toward our heavenly home.
0:24.9	This is Day 138. We're reading paragraphs 1012 to 1019. As always, I'm using the Ascension edition
0:30.5	of the Catechism, which includes the Foundations of Faith Approach. You can follow along with
0:33.8	any recent version of the Catechism of the Catholic Church. You can also download your own catechism and a year reading plan by visiting ascensionpress.com slash C-I-Y. You can also
0:41.4	click follow or subscribe in your podcast app for daily updates and daily notifications. If you had that
0:45.5	that reading plan, you'd be able to see that. We have only a few handful of them. Maybe actually
0:50.4	literally a handful. What is a handful technically? I think there's seven days left.
0:54.9	We have a week left of this first pillar and then we jump into the pillar too, the how we worship,
1:01.4	which is pretty remarkable. But today, we get to conclude today talking about death and this
1:07.2	the Christian view of death, which is just remarkable. In fact, paragraph 1012 begins by saying, the Christian view of death or Christian vision of death
1:15.1	receives privileged expression in the liturgy of the church.
1:18.7	In fact, the next thing that's written there is from the Roman Missile.
1:22.7	In fact, whenever we have funeral masses, we say these words in this prayer, the preface one for the dead.
1:29.6	It says, indeed for your faithful, Lord, life is changed, not ended.
1:34.4	And that's the heart of this.
1:35.8	And for the faithful, your faithful, Lord, life is changed, not ended.
1:39.3	Because if we've been baptized into Christ, remember we talked about this yesterday and the day before,
1:43.0	if we've been baptized into Christ, we have died in a real way. And so there is this fulfillment of what began in our
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