Day 69: Born of the Virgin Mary (2025)

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

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🗓️ 10 March 2025

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Summary

Fr. Mike helps us to understand Mary’s role in the history of salvation. Through her belief and obedience, Mary becomes the Mother of God, and she cooperates in the redemption of the entire world. God’s glory is manifested when he uses weak and powerless people to show forth his faithfulness. What we believe about Mary is based on what we believe about Christ, and what the Church teaches about Mary illuminates our faith in Christ. Today’s readings are Catechism paragraphs 484-489.

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, where we encounter God's plan of sheer goodness for us, revealed in scripture and passed down through the tradition of the Catholic faith.
0:15.0	The Catechism in a year is brought to you by Ascension. In 365 days, we'll read through the Catechism of the Catholic Church, discovering
0:21.5	our identity in God's family as we journey together toward our heavenly home. This is day 69. We're
0:26.1	reading paragraphs 484 to 489. As always, I'm using the Ascension edition of the Catechism,
0:31.0	which includes the Foundations of Faith approach. You can follow along with any recent version of the
0:34.8	Catechism of the Catholic Church. Also, you can download your own catechism and your reading plan by visiting ascensionpress.com slash CIY. And lastly,
0:41.8	you can click follow or subscribe and your podcast app for daily updates and daily notifications.
0:48.3	As I said, it's day 69. We're reading paragraphs 484.44. 49. We're in a new section.
0:52.3	You know, we just concluded yesterday talking about Christ's human will, his true body,
0:56.5	the heart of the incarnate word, which just moves us so much.
0:59.6	Remember, paragraph 478 that says, Jesus knew and loved each of us and all, each and all,
1:06.6	loved us each and all during his life, his agony and his passion, and gave himself up for each one of us.
1:12.2	Ah, he has loved us with a human heart.
1:13.8	So we kind of concluded yesterday with that.
1:16.0	Now, going to the next paragraph of this section, and that is, here's Jesus, who was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary.
1:23.6	So this section is going to be a lot about Mary, but as is highlighted in paragraph 487.
1:28.8	This is one sentence in paragraph 487.
1:31.1	That's all it is.
1:32.3	And it states this, what the Catholic faith believes about Mary is based on what it
1:37.8	believes about Christ.
1:39.2	And what it teaches about Mary, illumines in turn its faith in Christ.
1:43.1	So for the next couple of days, we will be talking about Mary and how the in turn its faith in Christ. So for the next couple days, we will be talking
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