Day 242: The Virtue of Faith (2025)
The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz)
Ascension
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🗓️ 30 August 2025
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
The origin, motive, and object of the theological virtues are God himself. Today, we dive into the theological virtues, beginning with the virtue of Faith. Fr. Mike unpacks the meaning and purpose of the virtue of Faith and emphasizes that Faith is deeply rooted in trust in God. Lastly, Fr. Mike reminds us that Faith should be lived out along with Hope, and Love, and also professed to those who do know yet know God. Today’s readings are Catechism paragraphs 1812-1816.
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, |
| 0:09.1 | 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. |
| 0:15.4 | The Catechism in a year is brought to you by Ascension. |
| 0:17.5 | 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. This is Day 242. We're reading paragraphs 1812 to 1816. As always, I am using the Ascension edition of the Catechism, which includes the Foundations of Faith approach, but 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 by visiting ascensionpress.com |
| 0:42.1 | slash C-I-Y. The C stands for catechism, the I stands for Inna, and Y sense for year. |
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| 0:52.0 | Today is day 242 reading paragraphs 1812 to 1816 |
| 0:56.0 | we're introducing the theological virtues as well as the first of those theological virtues |
| 1:00.4 | faith so the three theological virtues we already talked about the cardinal virtues right |
| 1:04.3 | prudence temperance justice fortitude now we're talking about the theological virtues and their root |
| 1:10.2 | the human virtues are rooted in the theological virtues and the human virtues are rooted in |
| 1:11.8 | the theological virtues, which is something we'll read in paragraph 1812. Those theological |
| 1:17.0 | virtues of faith, hope, and love we will talk about today and tomorrow because they're so |
| 1:21.9 | important. They're necessary to live the Christian life, to have the virtues, the gifts of course, |
| 1:27.1 | of faith, hope and love, but also to have the virtues, the gifts, of course, of faith, hope, and love, |
| 1:27.8 | but also to have the virtues of faith and of hope and of love is essential for anyone who is |
| 1:33.9 | following after the Lord. Of course, remember, we said this yesterday. So human virtues, they're |
| 1:39.1 | acquired by education, by deliberate acts and perseverance. That's every renewed, repeated efforts. |
| 1:44.0 | Of course, that's paragraph 1810. |
| 1:46.1 | However, for Christians, for those of us who belong to Christ, we know that those |
| 1:49.5 | efforts are also purified and elevated by God's grace. |
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