Day 76: Jesus’ Baptism and Temptation (2025)

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

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🗓️ 17 March 2025

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Together, with Fr. Mike, we examine the mysteries of Jesus' Baptism and temptation in the wilderness. Fr. Mike unpacks how Jesus’ Baptism is yet another Epiphany or manifestation of Christ as Messiah. We also explore Christ’s acceptance of his mission as God’s suffering servant. Fr. Mike emphasizes that Jesus’ temptations in the desert mirror the temptations of Adam in the garden, but, unlike Adam, Jesus does not succumb to these temptations. He remains faithful to the Father. Through this obedience to the Divine Will, he conquers the Devil, and in our own obedience, we are participating in this victory. Today’s readings are Catechism paragraphs 535-540.

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,
0:09.5	where we encounter God's plan of sheer goodness for us, revealed in scripture and passed down
0:13.3	through the tradition of the Catholic faith. The Catechism in Ere is brought to you by ascension.
0:17.5	In 365 days, we'll read through the Catechism of the Catholic Church,
0:24.1	discovering our identity and God's family as we journey together toward our heavenly home.
0:29.7	It is day 76. We're reading paragraphs 535 to 540. We're continuing to follow along the mysteries of Jesus' life. As always, I am using the Ascension edition of the Catechism, which includes
0:33.7	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 own catechism and a year reading
0:40.4	plan by visiting Accenturepress.com slash CIY. And you can also click follow or subscribe in your
0:45.4	podcast app for daily updates and daily notifications. It is, as I said, day 76. One of the things we're
0:50.5	talking about today is we're kind of for what we're following along the mysteries of Jesus' life.
0:55.0	We talked about how all of Christ's life, the whole life is mystery a couple days ago.
1:00.0	Yesterday we talked with the fact that the hidden life, hidden mysteries of Jesus' infancy
1:04.9	and hidden life, right?
1:07.7	And so we had, I'm not saying right as if like, I need you to agree. You know the truth.
1:12.4	We talked about how Advent, the Christmas mystery, the mysteries of Jesus' infancy we talked about,
1:18.0	and also the mysteries of Jesus' hidden life for the last two, three days now. Now today,
1:22.9	we're talking about the mysteries of Jesus' public life. And we're talking about, in particular,
1:28.1	these two mysteries of the baptism of Jesus and Jesus' temptations in the wilderness. And so
1:33.2	it's just remarkable because, I don't know, well, you know what it's been like for the last
1:38.3	couple days. We get to reflect on things that we kind of know about and get to hear what the church
1:42.2	says about those things we know about. Of course, this is a summary.
1:44.7	It's not, we're not diving as deeply as a person could humanly possibly dive into these mysteries.
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