Day 142: The New Heaven and the New Earth (2025)
The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz)
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🗓️ 22 May 2025
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Summary
What will happen to humanity and the entire universe at the end of time? Fr. Mike shares with us the joyous hope of the new heaven and the new earth that awaits us after the Last Judgment. We learn that “at the end of time, the Kingdom of God will come in its fullness,” and all of creation will be redeemed and renewed. There will be no more weeping, mourning, nor pain, for death shall be no more. Fr. Mike invites us to hold on to this hope as we struggle on this side of heaven and await this great promise. Today’s Catechism readings are paragraphs 1042-1050.
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, |
| 0:09.4 | where we encounter God's plan of sheer 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 |
| 0:17.0 | Ascension. In 365 days, we'll read through the Catechism of the Catholic Church, |
| 0:21.6 | discovering our identity in God's family as we journeyed together toward our heavenly home. |
| 0:25.5 | This is Day 142. You guys, we have two days left of this pillar, and then we're on to pillar two. |
| 0:30.4 | We're reading paragraphs 1042 to 1050. I'm using the Ascension edition of the Catechism, |
| 0:34.5 | which includes the foundations of faith approach, but you can follow along with any recent version of the catechism of the Catholic Church. You can also download your |
| 0:41.3 | own catechism in a year reading plan by visiting ascensionpress.com slash cI and lastly you can |
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| 0:51.4 | It's day 142 reading paragraphs 1042 to 1050 we are talking about the hope |
| 0:57.0 | of a new heaven and the new earth yesterday was the last judgment right the final judgment |
| 1:00.8 | that is placed on all of creation but what happens to the cosmos right what happens to not just |
| 1:06.6 | humanity although we're talking about that in paragraph 1045, but also 1046 and following |
| 1:11.3 | what happens to the universe, what happens to all created things. And this something so powerful |
| 1:16.8 | about this, we're talking today about the fact that at the end of time, when all things are |
| 1:23.2 | brought to rights, and we talked about this yesterday, when all things are brought to rights, |
| 1:27.0 | not just humanity will be brought into line this yesterday, when all things are brought to rights, not just |
| 1:27.6 | humanity will be brought into line with God, but all of creation will be brought into line with |
| 1:33.0 | God once again. Remember how God created this world. He created this world that was good. There |
| 1:37.0 | was no darkness in it, no evil in it, no sin, no brokenness. Death didn't exist, no mourning, |
| 1:42.9 | nor crying, nor pain. And then what happens? Sin enters the world, |
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