Day 79: Jesus’ Transfiguration and Messianic Acts (2026)

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

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🗓️ 20 March 2026

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

Together, with Fr. Mike, we explore both the mystery of Christ’s Transfiguration and the mystery of his messianic entrance into Jerusalem. We examine how the Transfiguration reveals that Christ’s death was a voluntary act, and that he is truly the “splendor of the Father.” Fr. Mike emphasizes the incredible parallel between Christ’s baptism and Transfiguration. That, on the threshold of his public life, we witness Christ’s baptism, and on the threshold of the Passion, we witness the Transfiguration. Today’s readings are Catechism paragraphs 554-560.

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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Please note: The Catechism of the Catholic Church contains adult themes that may not be suitable for children - parental discretion is advised.

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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 it 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,
0:20.5	discovering our identity and God's family as we journey together toward our heavenly home. This is Day 79. We're reading paragraphs 554 to 560. As always, 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 at the Catholic Church. I am also using the catechism in a year reading plan, which you could get for free if you go to Ascensionpress.com slash C-I-Y, and you can also, little known fact, click follow or subscribe in your podcast app for daily updates and daily notifications. Today is day 79. You guys, we're almost on day 80. That's tomorrow. So amazing. Incredible. Well done.
0:54.6	We're reading paragraphs 554 to 560.
0:56.7	We're talking about, hmm, yesterday we talked about the keys of the kingdom, right?
1:00.9	How Jesus's signs were messianic signs demonstrating that he is the anointed one.
1:05.1	He is the one who was being waited for.
1:07.6	And then he handed those keys, the keys of the kingdom, to Simon Peter after his
1:12.4	profession of faith in Jesus' identity as the Messiah. Incredible, remarkable. We'll talk more
1:18.3	about that as days go on. We talk more about like, you know, the structure of the church. But today,
1:23.7	we have the next step. Remember, these are the mysteries of Jesus' life. And the next step as we're
1:27.8	following Christ's life is the Transfiguration, which is, again, the context is the kingdom. A foretaste of the kingdom is the transfiguration. What do we mean by that? So for the next few
1:37.3	paragraphs here, we're going to talk about how Jesus' transfiguration is a foretaste of the kingdom and how Jesus' assent into Jerusalem
1:45.2	is going up to fulfill that role of the king.
1:49.1	And this is, again, sometimes when we don't necessarily, we just kind of look at the events
1:53.7	of Christ's life.
1:54.8	We think, okay, this is, you know, the path of the Messiah.
1:57.7	This is the path of our Lord.
1:59.7	And we don't necessarily realize what he's doing here
2:02.7	is he is fulfilling the messianic vocation, right? He's fulfilling this call that the Messiah had to
2:09.5	establish the kingdom. Everything he's doing is establishing the kingdom. Yes, it's redeeming us.
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