Day 41: Origins and Ends (2025)

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

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🗓️ 10 February 2025

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

Together with Fr. Mike, we examine some of the different explanations for God’s existence outside of the Catholic understanding, such as Pantheism, Dualism, Manichaeism, and Deism. Fr. Mike explains that while some understanding of man’s origin can be perceived through human reason and the natural world, we also need Revelation, as it answers many questions about creation we could never possibly hope to answer with reason alone. Today's readings are Catechism paragraphs 285-289.

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,
0:09.1	where we encounter God's plan of pure goodness for us, revealed in scripture and passed down
0:12.9	through the tradition of the Catholic faith. The Catechism in Ere is brought to you by Ascension.
0:17.1	In 365 days, we'll read through the Catechism of the Catholic Church, discovering our identity
0:21.5	in God's family as we journey together to our heavenly home. This is day 41. We're reading paragraphs
0:26.0	285 to 289. As always, I'm using the Ascension edition of the catechism, which includes the
0:30.3	foundations of faith approach, but you can follow along with any recent version. Also, you can download
0:34.4	your catechism in your reading plan by visiting ascensionpress.com
0:37.5	slash CIY.
0:38.4	And lastly, you can click follow or subscribe in your podcast app for daily updates and daily notifications.
0:43.6	It, as I said, is day 41.
0:45.5	We're reading paragraphs 285 to 289.
0:47.6	This is continued catechesis on creation.
0:49.8	We're going to be sticking with creation for quite a little bit. Tomorrow we'll talk about, like, we'll crack
0:54.5	into the importance and what's revealed to us in Genesis chapters 1 through 3, which is
0:59.7	amazing and incredible. But today, we're all going to continue what we talked about yesterday,
1:03.9	which is the fact that people have always asked the questions. Who are we? Where are we going?
1:09.2	Where did we come from? What's our origin? What's
1:10.9	our end? That kind of situation. We're also going to talk about the fact that paragraph 285
1:14.8	will highlight this. That since the beginning of Christian faith, or since the beginning of everything,
1:20.7	the Christian faith has been challenged by responses to the questions of origins that differ from
1:25.0	our own. So we have a very specific response of how the world,
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