Day 21: Believing God (2025)

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

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🗓️ 21 January 2025

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

Fr. Mike continues reflecting on the meaning of faith and how it works in our lives. We learn that faith is a grace from God, a supernatural virtue that is not contrary to human freedom or reason. Fr. Mike reminds us that to have faith is not just to believe in God, but to believe God and everything he says. Today’s readings are Catechism paragraphs 150-155.

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
0:14.0	through the tradition of the Catholic faith. The Catechism in a Year is brought to you by
0:17.3	Ascension. In 365 days, we'll read to the Catechism of the Catholic Church,
0:21.7	discovering our identity in God's family as we journey together toward our heavenly home.
0:25.5	This is Day 21. We're reading paragraphs 150 to 155. A couple things to keep in mind as we get
0:31.4	started. I'm using the Ascension edition of the Catechism, which includes the foundations of faith
0:35.1	approach, but you can follow along with any recent version of the catechism of the Catholic Church. Also, you could download your own
0:41.0	catechism into your reading plan by visiting ascensionpress.com slash cI. And also, you can
0:47.2	click follow or subscribe in your podcast app for daily notifications. As I said, today is day 21.
0:53.3	Praise the Lord, three weeks, you guys.
0:55.1	No, that might not seem like it's anything significant.
0:57.7	It is incredibly significant because I think we got, I said this the last couple days.
1:02.9	I think we've gotten through some of like the grindy things, right?
1:06.1	Some of that kind of like, what, where are we going?
1:07.9	Where's the traction?
1:08.8	Where's my footing?
1:09.7	And here we are you know yesterday
1:11.2	able to launch into this what's our response to god's revelation and today we're going to continue
1:16.2	talking about that in fact yesterday we talked about these great individuals who had great faith
1:21.1	Abraham and Mary and there's also Sarah of course but Abraham and Mary being that that incredible
1:27.4	example Abraham the model of obedience.
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