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

Day 34: Unity in the Holy Spirit (2025)

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

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🗓️ 3 February 2025

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

The Catechism introduces us to the Holy Spirit and describes how the Spirit reveals the Father and the Son to us. It also gives us some background and context regarding the way we describe the Holy Spirit in the Roman Catholic Church compared to the way that the Eastern Orthodox Church describes the Holy Spirit. Fr. Mike breaks it down for us and gives us some hope for a future reconciliation between Eastern and Western Churches. Today’s readings are Catechism paragraphs 243-248.

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,

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where we encounter God's plan of sheer goodness for us, revealed in scripture, and passed down

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through the tradition of the Catholic faith. The Catechism in a Year is brought to you by

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Ascension. In 365 days, we'll read through the Catechism of the Catholic Church,

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discovering our identity and God's family as we journey together toward our heavenly home.

0:25.4

It is day 34. We're reading paragraphs 243 to 248. You guys, it's all about the Holy Spirit,

0:30.9

the Father and the Son. A few reminders before we get started, I am using the Ascension Edition

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of the Catechism, which I really like a lot. It includes the foundations of the faith approach, but you can follow along with any recent

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version of the Catechism of the Catholic Church. You can also follow along with a reading plan

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by downloading the Catechonononononononon year reading plan at ascensionpress.com

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slash C-I-Y, and what you get to do is what I do every day, which is check off another day, which is great. That'll Anton check off the date today, be 34. Also, and lastly, you can click follow or

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subscribe in your podcast app for daily updates and daily notifications. As I said, it's date 34.

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We're reading paragraphs 243 through 248. Remember yesterday, we talked about how the father is

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revealed by the son and the son is revealed by the father. It is remarkable. We talked about not only that. The day before this, I believe, we talked about the theologia and the oikonamia. Remember that? Remember that? I remember that. It was really great. Theologia and Oikonamia. Theology is who God is in of himself. Oikonamia is how God reveals himself

1:28.5

and imparts his very life to us. They're both super important and very, very vital. Further,

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we talked about this yesterday. The God reveals himself uniquely as father in Christianity.

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Fatherhood is not something he begins to do when he creates. He is eternally father to the son.

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And the most clear but still mysterious, analogous relationship we can possibly imagine is between the father and the son.

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Again, these words that we use in English, because we have things like fathers, we have things like sons, we have parents, we have children.

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And yet at the same time,

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with God the father and God the son, it's entirely unique, as we talked about. Today, we're

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going to take that next step and talk about how the father and the son are revealed by the Holy Spirit.

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