Day 224: The Grace of the Sacrament of Marriage (2025)

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

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🗓️ 12 August 2025

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

The grace of the Sacrament of Marriage provides husbands and wives the strength to love one another with supernatural, tender, and fruitful love. Fr. Mike covers the characteristics of the marriage bond and the different roles of husbands and wives. He explains what it means to “be subject to one another out of reverence for Christ.” We also learn that indissolubility, faithfulness, and openness to fertility are requirements of conjugal love. Today’s readings are Catechism paragraphs 1638-1645.

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,
0:09.3	where we encounter God's plan of sheer goodness for us, revealed in scripture and passed down
0:13.3	through the tradition of the Catholic faith. The Catechism in a year is brought to you by ascension.
0:17.1	In 365 days, we'll read through the Catechism of the Catholic Church, discovering our identity in God's family, as we journey together toward our heavenly home.
0:24.5	This is day 224. We're reading paragraphs 1638 to 1645.
0:29.2	As always, I'm using the Ascension edition of the Catechism, which includes a foundations of faith approach, but you can follow along with any recent version of the Catechism of the Catholic Church.
0:36.9	You can also download your own catechism into your reading plan by visiting ascensionpress.com slash CIY. Lastly, you can click follow or subscribe in your podcast app for daily updates and daily notifications. Today is day 224. Today we're going to talk about the effects of the sacrament of matrimony. Remember, there's always this section in these seven sacraments where it's what are the effects of the sacrament. So what are the effects of baptism? What does it actually do? What are the effects of confirmation? What does it actually do? What does reconciliation do? So today we're going to talk about what are the effects of the sacrament of matrimony. We're going to talk of the marriage bond, the grace of the sacrament of matrimony. What is that grace? And also these kind of important paragraphs
1:15.0	1643 to 1645, what are the goods and requirements of conjugal love? They were just going to dip into
1:21.3	the first three paragraphs there, the goods and requirements of conjugal love. And so we're going to
1:26.1	talk about all of those today in order to
1:28.0	prepare our hearts for big topics, personal topics, topics that are close to our hearts. We always
1:33.5	need to ask God's grace. We always need to ask for the grace and the help of the Holy Spirit to be
1:37.5	able to say yes to the Lord. So let's pray right now. Father in heaven, we give you thanks in the name of
1:44.0	your son, Jesus Christ, and praying in the power of the Holy Spirit.
1:47.2	We ask that you please hear our prayer, receive our hearts, open our hearts, and heal our hearts.
1:53.1	Lord God, there's so much in our lives that causes so much noise, so many things in our lives that can be helpful distractions and so many things in our lives that can be helpful distractions and so many things in our lives
2:03.7	that can be unhelpful or even destructive distractions. Oh God, we ask you to please clear out those
2:11.5	destructive distractions, those things that take us away from what you want us to hear, those things
2:17.0	that take us away from what it is that
2:18.8	you want us to do. Lord God, we ask you to please take away from our hearts all things that
2:24.0	could rob our hearts from love of you and love of our neighbor. Take away from our lives,
2:28.9	all those things that could steal our hearts from you and could cool our hearts from love of neighbor.
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