Day 8: God Forms His People (2025)

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

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🗓️ 8 January 2025

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

God chose Abraham and made him the “father of a multitude of nations.” Then God formed Israel as his people, freeing them from slavery in Egypt. Fr. Mike explains why God reveals himself in stages, and through the prophets who are honored as saints, he continues to form his people in the hope of salvation. Today’s readings are Catechism paragraphs 59-64.

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 Ear podcast,
0:09.4	where we encounter God's plan of sheer goodness for us, revealed in scripture, and passed down
0:13.6	through the tradition of the Catholic faith. The Catechism in Here is brought to you by Ascension.
0:17.6	In 365 days, we'll read through the entire catechism of the Catholic Church
0:21.7	discovering our identity in God's family as we journey together toward our heavenly home.
0:26.4	This is Day 8. We're reading paragraphs 59 to 64, how God chooses Abraham. He forms his people
0:32.0	Israel. He purifies and shapes the people through the prophets and through the covenants.
0:37.9	A few reminders before we get started. As we get started, I'm using the Ascension edition
0:41.4	of the Catechism, which includes the foundation of faith approach, but you can follow
0:45.0	along with any recent version of the Catechism of the Catholic Church. Also, you can follow
0:48.8	along with our reading plan by visiting ascensionpress.com slash C-I also you can click follow-up subscribe to listen to your
0:57.4	podcast this podcast wherever you listen to podcast you can do that today you know it's day eight
1:01.8	and one of the things that we ah i don't know i don't know what your experience has been because it's
1:07.1	kind of almost like i don't how would i say this It kind of feels like a little bit of slow going.
1:11.4	It kind of feels like, remember how if you went through the Bible in the year, one of the
1:15.0	things that we went through was just like, okay, yeah, I'm hearing that same story again.
1:18.7	Okay, here's the same story again.
1:20.3	Like remember when we had numbers in Deuteronomy at the same time and it was like, okay,
1:24.4	wait, you just told the exact same thing. Okay, when are you going to get to
1:28.7	like the next thing? And this is kind of what we're at right now. Today, you know, yesterday, today and
1:33.5	tomorrow are in the section of the catechism we're at on revelation is the stages of revelation.
1:39.6	So yesterday was the beginning, right? So God makes himself known through creation. God makes himself
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