Day 29: Knowing the Name of God (2025)
The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz)
Ascension
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🗓️ 29 January 2025
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
We can learn a lot about the nature of God from his Divine Name revealed in Scripture. When God said to Moses, “I am who I am,” this was a revelation of a name as well as a refusal of a name. Fr. Mike explains how this mystery reveals truths about God: he is infinitely above all things; we cannot comprehend him, yet he draws close to us. This Divine Name expresses the steadfast, faithful, unchanging love of God for his people, even when we betray and abandon him. Today’s readings are Catechism paragraphs 205-211.
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's Father Mike Schmitz, and you're listening to the Catechism in a Year podcast, |
| 0:09.7 | where we encounter God's plan of sheer goodness for us, revealed in scripture and passed down |
| 0:13.6 | through the tradition of the Catholic faith. The Catechism in a year is brought to you by |
| 0:17.0 | Ascension in 365 days. We'll read through the Catechism of the Catholic Church, |
| 0:21.6 | discovering our identity in God's family as we journeyed together toward a heavenly home. |
| 0:25.3 | This is day 29. |
| 0:26.7 | You guys, we've almost made it to day 30. |
| 0:28.7 | That's only one day away. |
| 0:29.7 | We're reading paragraphs 205 to paragraph 211. |
| 0:33.4 | A couple things to keep in mind. |
| 0:34.6 | I'm using the Ascension edition of the Catechism, which is awesome and beautiful, and I love it. |
| 0:38.7 | It includes the foundations of faith approach, but you can also follow along with any recent version of the Catechism of the Catholic Church. |
| 0:44.1 | Same words, same references, same stuff. But, you know, we got a little, some extra bells and whistles, some extra colors in there in the Ascension edition. You can also download your catechism in your reading plan for free by visiting ascensionpress.com slash CIY. And also, I don't know if you know this. |
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| 1:23.3 | So, as I said, today is day 29 reading paragraphs 205 to 211. Yesterday we started talking about God, I believe in God. I believe in God the Father. And that is so incredibly important. That is, |
| 1:30.0 | we also ended yesterday with the reality that God reveals his name. Now today, we're taking |
| 1:36.4 | those next steps. What is the name that God reveals himself as? And so going all the way back |
| 1:42.6 | to the book of Exodus, where God reveals his name to Moses |
| 1:46.2 | at the burning bush. And we're going to recover that story. You know that story. We love that story. |
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