Day 74: The Christmas Mystery (2024)

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

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🗓️ 14 March 2024

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Summary

Diving deeper into Jesus Christ as Mystery, the Catechism describes the deep mystery in the preparations for Christ’s coming—also known as Advent—as well as the mystery of his first coming in Christmas. Fr. Mike points to one of the last sentences of today’s readings—”Only when Christ is formed in us will the mystery of Christmas be fulfilled in us”—and reminds us that Jesus is the star of the story, not us. Our goal is to become children in relation to God. “He must increase, but I must decrease.” Today's readings are Catechism paragraphs 522-526.

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
0:08.3	in a year podcast where we encounter God's plan of sheer goodness for us
0:11.7	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.
0:18.0	In 365 days, we'll read through the Catechism of the Catholic Church discovering our identity in God's family as we journey together.
0:24.3	Throughout our Heavenly Home, it is day 74.
0:26.4	We're reading paragraphs 522 to 526.
0:29.2	As always, I'm using the Ascension Edition of the Catechism, which includes the Foundations of
0:32.4	faith approach. You can follow along with any recent version of the
0:35.0	Catechism of the Catholic Church. You can also download your Catechism in a year
0:38.3	reading plan by visiting Ascension Press.com slash DIY, And you can also click follow or subscribe in your
0:44.2	podcast app for daily updates and daily notifications.
0:47.0	As I said, say 74.
0:48.8	Yesterday we talked about how Christ's whole life is a mystery.
0:52.4	Remember that, that it's mystery whole life is a mystery.
0:52.5	Remember that?
0:53.5	It's mystery where he is a revelation of the Father.
0:56.0	Where his whole life is a mystery of redemption.
0:58.3	His whole life is a mystery of recapitulation.
1:00.5	And we are brought into that communion with the mysteries of Jesus and were called to live in him all that he himself lived.
1:08.0	So here is Jesus who enters into everything we can go through. He enters into all of humanity, not only stopping at
1:15.9	death but also our destiny that what God wants for us is to rise to new life in
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