Day 32: The Most Holy Trinity (2025)

The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz)

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🗓️ 1 February 2025

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Summary

Christians are baptized “in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,” not the “names” of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. The Catechism explains this distinction by introducing us to the “central mystery of Christian faith and life”: the Trinity. Fr. Mike slows us down to meditate on what God reveals to us concerning his inner life, the very thing that “many prophets and righteous people longed to see… [and] hear.” Today’s readings are Catechism paragraphs 232-237.

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 is Father Mike Schmitz, and you're listening to the Catechism in a Year podcast,
0:09.5	where we encounter God's plan of sheer goodness for us, revealed in scripture, and passed down
0:13.4	through the tradition of the Catholic faith. The Catechism in a Year is brought to you by Ascension.
0:17.4	In 365 days, we'll read through the Catechism of the Catholic Church, discovering our identity in God's family as we journeyed together toward our heavenly home.
0:23.9	It is day 32. We're reading paragraphs 232 to 237. As always, I'm using the Ascension edition
0:30.1	of the Catechism, which includes the foundations of faith approach. You can follow along
0:33.5	with any recent version of the Catechism with the Catholic Church. Also, if you want to download your own catechism in your reading plan, you can visit
0:40.1	ascensionpress.com slash C-I-Y.
0:42.7	That stands for catechism in here.
0:44.5	I don't know if you knew that.
0:45.4	And also, you can click follow or subscribe in your podcast app for daily notifications.
0:49.7	As I said, it is day 32.
0:51.1	We're reading paragraphs 232 to 237. We're starting kind of a new section,
0:55.7	the new paragraph called the Father. And the sub-point of that is the quote in the name of the
1:00.6	father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. We're reading a couple paragraphs. What we're going to
1:03.6	look at is the core, right? The core of Christian beliefs, the core of everything we believe
1:07.6	as Christians is the Trinity. The God's deepest identity. Remember, his innermost secret is that he's a communion of persons, that he is in eternal exchange of love,
1:15.8	Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. And so we're going to talk about that, how that is the central
1:19.8	mystery of the Christian faith. We're also going to talk about these two terms, theology and
1:25.0	economy. So you're going to hear this in paragraph 236. Well, the technical
1:29.3	definition of, or what the word theology means is, you know, theos, logia, right? So the study of
1:34.2	God, logos or logia, study of, and theos, God, study of God, but also this word economy,
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