Day 68: The Mystery of the Incarnation (2025)

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

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🗓️ 9 March 2025

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Summary

We learn more about Jesus Christ’s nature as fully God and fully human. Because he was fully human, “like us in all things but sin,” Jesus had a human will that was perfectly aligned with the will of God the Father, a human body that can be seen and venerated, and a human heart with which he loves us. Fr. Mike sums up the teachings in recent readings by reviewing that the Incarnation is the mystery of the union of the divine and human natures in the one person of the Word. Today’s readings are Catechism paragraphs 475-483.

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,
0:09.2	where we encounter God's plan of sheer goodness for us, revealed in scripture, and passed
0:13.5	down through the tradition of the Catholic faith.
0:15.8	The Catechism in Ere is brought to you by Ascension.
0:18.2	In 365 days, we'll read through the Catechism of the Catholic
0:21.6	Church discovering our identity in God's family as we journey together toward our heavenly
0:26.4	home. This is Day 68. You guys are reading paragraphs 475 to 483. As always, I'm using the
0:31.7	Ascension edition of the Catechism, which includes the Foundations of Faith approach. You can follow
0:35.5	along with any recent version of the Catechism of the Catholic Church. Also, you can download your own catechism in your reading plan
0:41.2	by visiting ascensionpresspress.com slash CIY. And also, you can click follow or subscribe.
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0:51.7	As I said, it's day 68. Um, we have been going through,
0:54.7	we've been following this, this part of the creed that is talking about what it is for God to be
1:01.1	human and divine. Like, sorry, what is for Jesus to be human and divine? Oh, man. And so we talked
1:07.2	about the incarnation. Why did the word become flesh? Remember those four reasons a couple days ago for four reasons?
1:12.4	One, to save us by reconciling us with God.
1:14.9	Secondly, so that thus we might know God's love.
1:18.1	Thirdly, to be our model of holiness, fourth, to make us, partakers in the divine nature.
1:22.9	And so then we talked about the incarnation, this incredible mystery.
1:26.0	The central mystery, remember, is the Trinity. Beyond that, though, is the incredible mystery of the incarnation, that God became one of us.
1:33.3	Remember that we mentioned that many times that Jesus is a divine person. Remember the second
1:39.7	person of the Trinity, divine person with two natures, a human nature and a divine nature. We talked
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