Day 233: The Beatitudes (2025)
The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz)
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🗓️ 21 August 2025
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Summary
“The Beatitudes are at the heart of Jesus’ preaching,” the Catechism tells us. Jesus’ proclamation in Chapter 5 of the Gospel of Matthew purifies our hearts, sets a standard for earthly discernment, and directs our actions towards heaven. Fr. Mike invites us to choose God’s ways and forsake our own ways. Today’s readings and paragraphs 1716-1729.
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 |
| 0:13.4 | down through the tradition of the Catholic faith. The Catechism in a year is brought to by |
| 0:16.9 | ascension. In 365 days, we'll read through the Catechism with the Catholic Church, discovering our identity and God's families. We journey together toward our heavenly home. This is Day 233. We're reading paragraphs 1716 to 1729. As always, I'm using the Ascension edition of the Catechism, which includes the Foundations of Faith Approach. And you can follow along with any recent version of the Catechism of the Catholic Church. You can also download your own catechism in a year reading plan |
| 0:41.3 | by visiting ascensionpress.com slash cI. And you can click follow or subscribe in your podcast |
| 0:47.8 | app for daily updates and daily notifications. Today is day 233, paragraphs 1716 to 1729. |
| 0:53.9 | Yesterday we talked about the dignity of the human person and the dignity of the human |
| 0:57.7 | person being in so many ways the basis for Catholic morality. |
| 1:00.5 | That man is made in the image and likeness of God. |
| 1:03.1 | I don't know if you remember this, you know, 24 hours ago, maybe. |
| 1:05.9 | Maybe he's even days ago. |
| 1:06.8 | If you missed a couple days, that's okay. |
| 1:08.7 | You're here today. |
| 1:09.6 | But we recognize that |
| 1:11.3 | paragraphs 1701 to 1709 was basically almost like a gospel presentation, right? Here's God who's good. |
| 1:18.1 | He made man in his image and likeness. Intellect will. We have all that. Then sin happens. |
| 1:23.8 | And yet at the same time, we still recognize the voice of God. We still recognize our high call. |
| 1:28.3 | God gives us through Jesus Christ and the far with the Holy Spirit the power to be able to do good, |
| 1:32.8 | to be good. Now, today, the next step, Article 2 is our vocation to beatitude. And so we're going to |
| 1:39.7 | talk about the actual beatitudes. We're going to look at the ones from Matthew's Gospel. And then also |
| 1:43.8 | our desire for happiness. So beatitude in many ways you can the actual beatitudes. We're going to look at the ones from Matthews Gospel. And then also our |
| 1:44.5 | desire for happiness. So beatitude in many ways, you can translate that as blessing. You can translate |
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