Day 2: How the Catechism Works (2025)

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

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🗓️ 2 January 2025

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

The Catechism reveals to us its intended readership, structure, and some practical directions for use. Fr. Mike and the Roman Catechism remind us that—above all—”the works of perfect Christian virtue spring from love and have no other objective than to arrive at love.” Today’s readings are Catechism paragraphs 11-25.

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's 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
0:17.7	Ascension. In 365 days, we'll read through the Catechism of the Catholic
0:22.2	Church discovering our identity in God's family as we journey together toward our heavenly
0:26.7	home. This is day two. A quick note, a few reminders before we get started. I'm using the
0:31.5	Ascension Edition of the Catechism, which includes the Foundations of Faith approach. You can follow
0:35.7	along from any recent version of the Catechism of the Catholic Church. approach, you can follow along from any recent version of the
0:37.6	Catholic Church. Also, you can follow along with our reading plan to download your catechism
0:42.6	and your reading plan. Visit ascensionpress.com slash C-I-Y. And lastly, you can click follow or
0:48.5	subscribe in your podcast app for daily notifications. Today, we are reading, as I said, the second
0:52.9	half of the prologue. So basically paragraphs 11 through 25. As I mentioned yesterday, kind of like syllabus day.
0:59.4	Or say, okay, here is what the catechism is in the first place. And here is why it is in the first place.
1:05.0	Now today, we're going to be covering a couple different things. Those things we're talking about are
1:08.6	why did they make the catechism? Who are the people that the catechism was written to talk to? Who's the intended readership? Also, the structure
1:16.2	of the catechism. There are four pillars, and we're going to talk about those four pillars,
1:20.3	what they are and why they are. Also, the church wants to offer some practical directions for
1:25.4	using the catechism, meaning, yeah, on the sides of
1:28.2	your catechism, you'll notice little numbers. What are those numbers? What do they refer to?
1:32.6	They also note that sometimes it's a large font, sometimes it's small font. Why is that? And then lastly,
1:38.4	the invitation that the church is throwing out there saying, okay, this is the catechism that we made.
1:43.8	And what's going to happen is, based off of this the catechism that we made. And what's going to
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