Day 23: We Believe (2025)
The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz)
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🗓️ 23 January 2025
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
While faith is deeply personal, it is not an isolated act. Today, Fr. Mike reflects on the reality that our faith is communal. It is lived out and passed down in the context of community. We also learn that faith is truly the beginning of eternal life. Despite the sufferings of this world, when we walk by faith, we experience a taste of heaven here and now. Today’s readings are Catechism paragraphs 163-169.
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, where we encounter God's plan of sheer goodness for us, revealed in scripture, and passed down through the tradition of the Catholic faith. |
| 0:15.3 | The Catechism in a Year is brought to you by Ascension. In 365 days, we'll read through the Catechism of the Catholic Church, |
| 0:21.1 | discovering our identity in God's family as we journey together toward our heavenly home. |
| 0:25.5 | It is Day 23. We're reading paragraphs 163 to 169. A few reminders before we get started. |
| 0:31.4 | I'm using the Ascension edition of the Catechism, which includes the Foundations of Faith approach, |
| 0:35.2 | but you can follow along in that one or with any |
| 0:37.8 | recent version of the catechism of the Catholic Church. Also, if you want to download your own |
| 0:41.4 | catechism into your reading plan, you can visit ascensionpress.com slash cIY. And lastly, |
| 0:46.3 | you can click follow or subscribe or whatever that word is indicating that you are following or |
| 0:49.8 | subscribing in your podcast app for daily notifications. As I said, it is day 23, our Michael Jordan |
| 0:54.6 | Day, as I like to refer to it. And we're reading paragraphs 163 to 169. One thing to keep in mind is |
| 0:59.5 | we've been following Article 1 in that section, the response, right? The I believe we've been |
| 1:04.3 | talking about for the last number of paragraphs. Now, the last two paragraphs here, Did I say two? I meant to say three. Paragraphs 163, 164, and 165 are the conclusion |
| 1:13.8 | of the I believe. We're going to talk about faith as the beginning of eternal life. We know that, |
| 1:18.7 | even though we believe. You know, faith is so good. Faith is an incredible gift. And we actually |
| 1:24.4 | have the one in whom we believe. And we possess the Lord. He's with us, right? |
| 1:29.8 | We profess our faith in him and we have him. He gives himself to us at the same time. We walk by |
| 1:34.8 | faith and not by sight. At the same time, we continue to walk in a world that's broken, |
| 1:38.6 | in a world that that is still full of darkness. We're going to talk about that a little bit today. |
| 1:42.4 | Those three first, those three last paragraphs, but they're first for us today, right? 163 to 165. But then we jump into 166, and that is |
| 1:50.1 | the second article of this section. We just finished, we will finish, I believe, and we'll start |
| 1:55.8 | this article two called we believe. And it's really important because not only do we profess individual |
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