Day 4: Our Capacity for God (2025)

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

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🗓️ 4 January 2025

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Summary

The Catechism begins to explore what it means “to believe” by examining our innate desire for God and all the ways we can come to know him. Fr. Mike grounds us in a refrain he promises to repeat throughout the year—God loves you. Not in an abstract way, but in a concrete, unique way. God knows you, and he wants you to know him. Today’s readings are Catechism paragraphs 26-35.

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
0:13.8	down through the tradition of the Catholic faith. The Catechism in a year is brought to you by
0:17.8	Ascension. In 365 days, we'll read through the catechism of the Catholic
0:21.7	Church, discovering our identity in God's family as we journey together toward our heavenly home.
0:25.7	This is day four. You guys, yesterday we had the introduction of part one. We got done with our syllabus
0:30.7	days. We got done with that day one and two, the prologue of paragraphs 1 through 25. Today we're starting paragraphs 26 through 35, FYI. I'm using the
0:39.9	Ascension Edition of the Catechism, which includes the Foundations of Faith Approach. If you can follow
0:43.8	along with that one, that's great, but you can use any recent version of the Catechism of the
0:47.8	Catholic Church. Also, if you want to download your own catechism and a year reading plan, you can visit ascensionpress.com slash C-I-Y. And lastly,
0:55.2	you can click follow or subscribe in whatever podcast you're listening for daily notifications
0:59.1	and updates. As I said, this is day four. We're reading from part one, what we believe,
1:05.9	section one, divine revelation, and then here's chapter one on the search paragraphs 26 to 35 and this very beginning
1:13.3	is about man's capacity human beings capacity for god now one of the things you're going to hear
1:17.1	me say when i'm reading from the catechism is man and you probably figured this out already but
1:23.3	man is the classic i mean in the language, man simply means humanity and does not
1:28.8	refer to male or female? Just that's, that makes sense. I just, I want to get it out there
1:33.6	because today we're going to talk about this, like man's desire, the human heart, man is created
1:37.8	by God and for God, and God never ceases to draw man to himself. What that means is you,
1:43.4	regardless of whether you are male or female, just human beings.
1:47.4	So I just want to say that right out here.
1:50.0	In these first few paragraphs, paragraph 26 through 35, we're going to hear about this.
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