Day 75: Jesus’ Infancy and Hidden Life (2026)
The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz)
Ascension
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🗓️ 16 March 2026
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
Fr. Mike explores the mystery of Jesus’ infancy and hidden life. We first take a look at Jesus’ Baptism, circumcision, and the Epiphany. Fr. Mike discusses that Jesus’ circumcision shows us that salvation comes from the Jews. The Epiphany shows us that salvation does not stop there, it extends to all of us. Later, we examine Jesus’ hidden life. Fr. Mike emphasizes the importance of Jesus’ obedience to not just his Father in Heaven, but to his earthly father and mother as well, and how we can imitate that obedience. Today’s readings are Catechism paragraphs 527-534.
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, |
| 0:09.6 | where we encounter God's plan of sheer goodness for us, revealed in scripture, and passed it down |
| 0:13.9 | through the tradition of the Catholic faith. The Catechism in a Year is brought to you by Ascension. |
| 0:18.1 | In 365 days, we'll read through the Catechism of the Catholic Church, discovering our identity and God's family as we journey together toward our heavenly home. It is day 75. We're reading paragraphs 527 to 534 more about the hidden life of Jesus. Infancy, all of that. I'm using the Ascension edition of the Catechism, which includes the foundations of faith approach, but you can follow along with any recent version of the Catechism of the Catholic Church. Also, you can download your free catechism in your reading plan by visiting ascensionpress.com slash C-I-Y. Speaking of free, you can click follow or subscribe to this podcast in your podcast app and receive this for free. It's amazing. Also, just a quick thank you to all |
| 0:55.5 | those who supported the production of this podcast. It is so incredible. Thank you for your prayers. |
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| 1:03.7 | I mean it every day. I am telling you, I say I pray for you every day and it is completely true, |
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| 1:11.7 | it's day 75. And as we continued yesterday, we talked about how the fact that the whole life of Jesus |
| 1:17.9 | is, two days ago, that whole life of Jesus is a mystery. Yesterday, we talked about his infancy, |
| 1:22.8 | like in that sense of the preparations. John the Baptist prepared from the literature of Advent |
| 1:26.7 | prepares for Christ, |
| 1:27.7 | and then here's Christmas. Today, we're going to look at these other, I guess you could call |
| 1:31.7 | them two mysteries. One is the mysteries of Jesus' infancy. And secondly, the mysteries of Jesus' |
| 1:37.4 | hidden life. So the mysteries of Jesus' infancy are things like his circumcision, right? |
| 1:42.0 | The epiphany is his manifestation of Jesus as the Messiah |
| 1:46.9 | to the world. And so you have the magi. Later on, you have, of course, his manifestation, |
| 1:52.7 | by his baptism by John and the Jordan, as well as the wedding feast at Cana, where he performed, |
| 1:58.6 | that's the word, he performed his first miracle, and so revealed his glory. |
| 2:02.9 | So those are three kind of what you might call epiphanies. |
| 2:05.1 | But the one we'll focus on today, of course, is the infancy epiphany, which is the visit of the |
| 2:10.7 | wise men. |
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