Day 5: How We Know God
The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz)
Ascension
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🗓️ 5 January 2023
⏱️ 13 minutes
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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.
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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, reveal the Scripture, and pass down |
| 0:13.6 | to the tradition of the Catholic faith. |
| 0:15.5 | 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 Church, discovering |
| 0:22.5 | our identity in God's family as we journey together toward our heavenly home. |
| 0:26.2 | This is day 5, and as a couple of reminders before we get started, I'm using the Ascension |
| 0:31.2 | edition of the Catechism, which includes the foundations of faith approach. |
| 0:34.5 | But you can follow along with this, with any recent version of the Catechism of the Catholic |
| 0:38.1 | Church. |
| 0:39.1 | So no problem whatsoever, but you can also follow along the reading plan by downloading |
| 0:42.7 | your Catechism in a Year reading plan at AscensionPress.com slash C-I-Y. |
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| 0:53.8 | And also, I just want to take a moment to thank all of you who have supported the production |
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| 1:01.5 | So thank you so much. |
| 1:02.5 | As I said, it is day 5. |
| 1:03.9 | We are reading from chapter 1 in the search, paragraphs 36 through 43. |
| 1:07.9 | You know, yesterday we talked about how we can come to know God through the world. |
| 1:11.7 | We can come to know God through looking and our human heart. |
| 1:14.4 | Today, we're going to kind of launch forward and look a little bit more closely at that. |
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