Day 38: Summary of the Trinity (2025)

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

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🗓️ 7 February 2025

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Summary

We have arrived at the “nugget day” or In Brief section for the paragraphs examining the nature of the Father in the Trinity. Fr. Mike reiterates some of the “nuggets” of wisdom from these past few days. He emphasizes the importance of how Baptism allows us to share in the life of the Holy Trinity. We conclude this section with a reflection on this profound call to share in the glory of the Trinity even though it exists “in the obscurity of faith.” Today’s readings are Catechism paragraphs 261-267.

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,
0:09.6	where we encounter God's plan of pure goodness for us, revealed in scripture, and passed
0:13.4	down through the tradition of the Catholic faith. The Catechism in the Year is brought to you by
0:17.2	Ascension. In 365 days, we'll read through the catechism of the Catholic
0:21.1	Church discovering our identity and God's family as we journey together toward our heavenly home.
0:25.9	It is day 38. We're reading paragraphs 261 to 267. It's a nugget day once again. Or Nug days,
0:32.7	as we might say. I don't know if we've said this, because we're going through the in-brief
0:35.6	here at the end of that section we just have been reading about the most holy Trinity.
0:39.6	We get, oh my gosh, you guys, incredible.
0:41.8	As always, I'm always 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 cacism of the Catholic Church. Also, you can download your own catechism into your reading plan by visiting ascensionpress.com slash C-I-Y, and I don't know if you know about this. I mentioned it yesterday.
0:59.7	I don't know if I've mentioned it before that. You can click follow or subscribe in your podcast app for
1:03.6	daily updates and daily notifications. Again, it's day 38. We're reading paragraphs 261 to 267. It's Nugget Day. It's the in-brief with summary of everything
1:12.1	we've been talking about. So what have we been talking about? We've been talking about how the revelation
1:17.2	of God as Trinity is the heart of the Christian mystery. Not only does God reveal himself as Trinity,
1:25.3	not only in the manner he reveals himself, right? It's the son who reveals the fact that the father is not just a father to Israel, not just a father by in the order of creation, but that the father is eternally father, which is remarkable. And that the second person of the Trinity, the son, is eternally the son. And then the father and the son are revealed by the spirit. It's just is remarkable. But then also the Son is eternally the Son. And then the Father and the Son are revealed by the Spirit.
1:45.0	It's just remarkable.
1:46.0	But then also the Lord is inviting us to share his own blessed life.
1:50.0	He's inviting us into the mystery of the Trinity.
1:53.0	As I've said before, I think one of the most incredible lines in the Catechism so far is from Catechism 221 right 221 where it says by sending his only son
2:05.1	and the spirit of love in the fullness of time god has revealed his innermost secret god himself is an
2:10.5	eternal exchange of love father son and holy spirit and he's destined us to share in that exchange
2:15.6	and so that was the last section. And this section
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