Day 35: Formation of Trinitarian Dogma (2025)

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

Ascension

Ascension, Catechism Of The Catholic Church, Catholic Doctrine, Fr Mike Schmitz, Religion & Spirituality, Fr Mike, Catechism, Scripture, Tradition, Catholic, Spirituality, Father Mike, Foundations Of Faith, Father Mike Schmitz, Catholic Church, Catholicism, Christianity, Catholic Teachings, Catechism In A Year, Bible, Catholic Faith

4.9 • 10.8K Ratings

🗓️ 4 February 2025

⏱️ 16 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Fr. Mike explores the formation of the Church’s dogma on the nature of the Trinity. He unpacks the terms used by the Church in an attempt to explain the nature of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. However, as Fr. Mike reminds us, with the story of St. Augustine and the child on the seaside, the Trinity is a mystery that none of us can fully comprehend. Today’s readings are Catechism paragraphs 249-252.

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.

For the complete reading plan, visit ascensionpress.com/ciy

Please note: The Catechism of the Catholic Church contains adult themes that may not be suitable for children - parental discretion is advised.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Hi, my name's Father Mike Schmitz, and you're listening to the Catechism in a Year podcast,
0:09.4	where we encounter God's plan of sheer goodness for us, revealed in scripture, and passed down through the tradition of the Catholic faith.
0:15.4	The Catechism in a year is brought to you by ascension.
0:17.6	In 365 days, we'll read through the Catechism of the Catholic Church,
0:24.2	discovering our identity in God's family as we journeyed together toward our heavenly home.
0:30.3	It is day 35. We're reading paragraphs 249 to 252. It's only a few short paragraphs, but they are action-packed. More on that in a second. A few reminders. Before we get started, I'm using
0:36.1	the Ascension edition of the Catechism,
0:41.3	which includes the foundations of the faith approach. But you can follow along in any recent version of the Catechism of the Catholic Church. Also, you can download your own catechism into
0:45.3	your reading plan by visiting ascensionpress.com slash CIY. And lastly, you can. I don't know
0:50.8	if you know this. You can click follow or subscribe in your podcast app for daily notifications and daily updates.
0:57.1	As I said, it is Dave 35 reading paragraphs 249 to 252.
1:00.6	What does that look like?
1:01.4	Well, we've just gone from talking about how the Holy Spirit proceeds from the Father and the Son, or, you know, for our Eastern brothers and sisters, how the Holy Spirit proceeds from the Father through the
1:11.1	Son. Again, both of those are phenomenal. But we're also talking now today, specifically,
1:15.1	about the formation of the Trinitarian dogma. Now, that is a lot of big words. Well, I apologize,
1:21.2	but there's going to be even more big words because at some point, from the very beginning,
1:24.9	here's what we're going to talk about. From the beginning, God has been revealing himself as a communion of persons, right?
1:29.9	He's been revealing himself as one, one being, right?
1:32.6	But also God reveals himself as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
1:36.0	And so over the course of time, here's the Old Testament.
1:39.0	We already talked about those foreshadows, those kind of like, God, you know, slightly, slowly
1:42.9	revealing himself as a, as a
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Ascension, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Ascension and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.