Day 6: Knowing God With Certainty (2026)
The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz)
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🗓️ 6 January 2026
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
Today’s reading is a summation of what we have learned so far. Man is made for God, and we are born with a capacity for knowing God. Using our senses, listening to our consciences, and employing our gift of reason, we can know with certainty that God exists. Fr. Mike explains how we live freely only in communion with our Creator, even if we are limited in our capacity of comprehension. Knowing this compels us to share our faith in God with those who do not yet believe. Today’s readings are Catechism paragraphs 44-49.
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 Any Year podcast, where we |
| 0:09.9 | encountered God's plan of sheer goodness for us, revealed in scripture, and passed down through |
| 0:14.3 | the tradition of the Catholic faith. The Catechism in a year is brought to you by Ascension. |
| 0:18.5 | In 365 days, we'll read through the Catechism of the Catholic Church, discovering our identity in God's family as we journeyed together toward our heavenly home. This is day six. A few reminders, I'm using the Ascension Catechism, Ascension Edition of the Catechism, which includes the Foundations of Faith approach. You can follow along with any recent version of the Catholic Church. You don't have to get the Ascension version, although that has some, you know, bells and |
| 0:41.7 | whistles that help follow along. |
| 0:43.9 | Speaking of following along, you can download your catechism on your reading plan by visiting |
| 0:47.7 | ascensionpress.com slash CIY. |
| 0:50.5 | Lastly, you can click follow or subscribe in your podcast for daily updates and daily notifications. |
| 0:55.8 | Goodness gracious, it is day six. |
| 0:57.4 | We're reading paragraphs 44 through 49, as I might have mentioned yesterday. |
| 1:01.2 | I think I did. |
| 1:02.0 | These paragraphs 44 through 49 are the in brief. |
| 1:05.1 | So we've completed chapter one of section one of part one. |
| 1:10.3 | So you guys, we're six days in i've already completed |
| 1:13.4 | a whole chapter so well done that also means the in brief if you remember this at all the in brief |
| 1:18.5 | is basically for us today at least it's six bullet points and six very short sentences essentially |
| 1:24.8 | i think every one of these bullet points is one sentence and they are reminders of everything we've covered for the previous two days. And so pretty simple, pretty great way. It's like if the first two days we had were syllabus days, this is kind of like, okay, end of the week review. And that's kind of what we have, at least today, is this end of the week review where we have this in brief paragraphs 44 through 49. What we're |
| 1:44.6 | going to hear about today is, again, it's just the review recognizing that, yes, human beings, |
| 1:49.5 | by our nature and vocation, our religious beings, that means something unique, that we're |
| 1:53.7 | made from God, we're going towards God, and we're only happy if we find ourselves in God. |
| 1:58.9 | We only actually experience fullness of life if we recognize our source, |
| 2:03.6 | our origin, right, and our destiny. So we're going to talk about that a little bit today, |
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