Day 243: The Virtue of Hope (2025)
The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz)
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🗓️ 31 August 2025
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Summary
A desire for the Kingdom of heaven and eternal life is at the heart of the virtue of hope. Fr. Mike breaks down the definition of the theological virtue of hope and explains how it protects us from discouragement and selfishness. By placing our trust in Christ’s promises, we are free to love the people around us and endure all circumstances because we know that God is faithful. Today’s readings are Catechism paragraphs 1817-1821.
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, |
| 0:09.2 | where we encounter God's plan of sheer goodness for us revealed in scripture and passed down through |
| 0:13.3 | 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 a heavenly home. |
| 0:24.3 | This is Day 243, reading paragraphs 1817 to 1821. |
| 0:28.8 | As always, I'm 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. |
| 0:36.9 | You can also download your own catechism in a year reading plan by visiting ascensionpress.com |
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| 0:47.3 | and daily notifications. Like and subscribe. It's great. Leave a review. It's amazing. Today's |
| 0:52.3 | day 243. We're reading paragraphs 1817 to 1821. |
| 0:56.7 | We're talking about hope. Yesterday we talked about faith. We talked to, we had the intro to the three |
| 1:00.4 | theological virtues that they are necessary. They're also necessary to be united. They, they assist us |
| 1:06.3 | in the moral life in the way that, I don't know, crutches assist us to walk when you got a broken leg or something |
| 1:11.2 | like that. I don't know, but they are pretty darn important. And so today, we're going to talk |
| 1:15.6 | about the second theological virtue. Yesterday was faith. Today is hope. And what is hope? |
| 1:21.3 | He says here in paragraph 1817, hope is the theological virtue by which we desire the kingdom of |
| 1:26.9 | heaven and eternal life as our happiness, |
| 1:29.5 | placing our trust in Christ's promises and relying not on our own strength, but on the help |
| 1:34.1 | of the grace of the Holy Spirit. That is a mouthful of a definition, but we are going to break that |
| 1:38.1 | open today. In order to do that, let us call upon our Heavenly Father, the Son, and Holy Spirit, |
| 1:42.7 | as we pray. Father in heaven, we give |
| 1:44.8 | you praise. We do. We love you and we thank you. We glorify your name this moment and every moment. We ask, would you please send upon us in the name of your son, Jesus Christ, by the power of your Holy Spirit, the grace of hope. Give us the grace of faith and love, but give us the grace of hope today, that we can trust in your promises. By faith, |
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