Day 5: How We Know God (2025)

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

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🗓️ 5 January 2025

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Summary

What can we know about God? The Catechism tells us three important things: 1) We can know God with our human reason, but 2) that knowledge will always be limited, and 3) we rely on God to reveal himself to us. Fr. Mike warns us that learning who God is requires self-surrender and abnegation, for the human heart struggles to recognize the infinite gap between Creator and created. Today’s readings are Catechism paragraphs 36-43.

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 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 down
0:13.6	to the tradition of the Catholic faith. The Catechism in a year is brought to you by Ascension.
0:18.0	In 365 days, we'll read through the entire Catechism of the Catholic
0:21.5	Church, discovering our identity in God's family as we journey together toward our heavenly
0:25.7	home. This is Day 5. And as a couple reminders before we get started, I'm using the Ascension
0:31.2	edition of the Catechism, which includes the Foundations of Faith approach. But you can follow
0:34.9	along with this, with any recent version of the C any recent version of the Catholic Church, so no problem whatsoever. But you can also follow along the reading plan
0:41.8	by downloading your catechism in your reading plan at ascensionpress.com slash C-I-Y.
0:48.1	Also, you can click follow or subscribe or whatever in your podcast app to receive daily
0:52.0	notifications and updates. And also, I just want to
0:54.6	take a moment to thank all of you who have supported the production of this podcast with prayers
0:58.5	and financial gifts literally could not do it without you. So thank you so much. As I said, it is day
1:03.4	five. We were reading from chapter one in the search, paragraphs 36 through 43. You know,
1:08.3	yesterday we talked about how we can come to know God through the world.
1:11.6	We can come to know God through looking in our human heart. Today, we're going to kind of launch
1:15.9	forward and look a little bit more closely at that. We recognize that we can come to a knowledge of
1:20.9	God's existence, God's reality by the light of human reason. And kind of highlighting, yep,
1:26.4	while we have the light of human reason that can apprehend,, yep, while we have the light of human reason
1:28.0	that can apprehend, right, that can understand that God truly exists and even a bit of who God
1:33.6	really is, we're going to be limited, which is one of the reasons why God has to reach out and
1:37.3	reveal himself to us. Also, we're going to talk about the language in which we speak of God
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