Day 70: The Immaculate Conception
The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz)
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🗓️ 11 March 2023
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
The Catechism introduces us to Mary’s Immaculate Conception and explains why God preserved her “immune from all stain of original sin.” Fr. Mike answers a common question asked in response to this revelation: “Why didn’t God just preserve us all from original sin?” His answer might surprise you. Today's readings are Catechism paragraphs 490-494.
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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.
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 down |
| 0:13.5 | through the tradition of the Catholic faith. The Catechism in a Year is brought to you by Ascension. |
| 0:17.4 | In 365 days, we'll read through the Catechism of the Catholic Church, discovering our identity |
| 0:22.3 | in God's families we journey together toward our Heavenly Home. This is Day 70, |
| 0:26.0 | reading paragraphs for 90 to 494. As always, I'm using the Ascension edition of the Catechism, |
| 0:30.4 | which includes the foundations of faith approach, but you can follow along with any recent version |
| 0:34.0 | of the Catechism of the Catholic Church. Also, you can download your own Catechism in a year |
| 0:38.0 | reading plan by visiting ascensionpress.com slash cyy and you can click follow or subscribe |
| 0:42.8 | on your podcast app for daily updates, daily notifications, just a quick moment on this day 70, |
| 0:47.6 | to thank all those who supported the production and the making of this podcast with your prayers, |
| 0:52.2 | lifting us all up before the Lord. It's so helpful because this is, I don't know, I don't want to |
| 0:56.1 | complain, but it's, you know, it's a lot of work. It's hard to press play, it's hard to press record |
| 0:59.4 | too. I'll say that. But thank you for your prayers and also thank you for your financial gifts. |
| 1:03.2 | We literally could not do this without you. So just thank you so much. As I said, it's Day 70, |
| 1:07.6 | and yesterday we started talking about Mary and how, oh man, the Holy Spirit came upon the Blessed |
| 1:12.5 | Virgin Mary. The God had predestined her. He prepared a body for himself. God sent forth the Son, |
| 1:18.3 | but to prepare a body for him right in the incarnation, he wanted the free cooperation of the creature. |
| 1:23.2 | Now for this, this is paragraph 488, for this, from all eternity, God shows for the mother of His Son |
| 1:28.9 | a daughter of Israel. And he relied upon her, yes. Now today in paragraphs 490 to 494, |
| 1:36.2 | we're going to talk about the immaculate conception. Now the immaculate conception doesn't refer to |
| 1:40.6 | Jesus being immaculately conceived. That's, that's different. But Mary's conception, we believe, |
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