Day 8: God Forms His People
The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz)
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🗓️ 8 January 2023
⏱️ 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.
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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.
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 Any Year Podcast, |
| 0:09.3 | 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 Any Year is brought to you by Ascension. |
| 0:17.4 | In 365 days, we'll read through the entire Catechism of the Catholic Church, discovering our identity |
| 0:22.9 | in God's family, as we journey together toward our Heavenly Home. This is day 8. We're reading |
| 0:28.3 | paragraphs 59 to 64, how God chooses Abraham, He forms as people Israel, He purifies and shapes |
| 0:34.8 | the people through the prophets and through the covenants. A few reminders before we get started, |
| 0:39.4 | as we get started, I'm using the ascension edition of the Catechism, which includes the foundation |
| 0:43.4 | of faith approach, but you can follow along with any recent version of the Catechism of the Catholic |
| 0:47.2 | Church. Also, you can follow along with our reading plan by visiting ascensionpress.com slash |
| 0:52.9 | cyy. Also, you can follow us, subscribe to listen to your podcast, this podcast, wherever you |
| 0:59.6 | listen to podcasts. You can do that today. You know it's day 8 and one of the things that we, |
| 1:04.0 | I don't know what your experience has been because it's almost like, how would I say this? |
| 1:09.2 | It kind of feels like a little bit of slow going. It kind of feels like, remember how if you went |
| 1:13.4 | through the Bible in a year, one of the things that we went through was just like, okay, I'm hearing |
| 1:17.7 | that same story again. Here's the same story again. Remember when we had numbers in Deuteronomy |
| 1:22.6 | at the same time and it was like, okay, wait, you just, you just told the exact same thing. |
| 1:27.1 | Okay, when you're going to get to like the next thing, and this is kind of what we're at right now, |
| 1:31.6 | today, you know, yesterday, today and tomorrow are in the section of the Catechism we're at, |
| 1:36.9 | Revelation is the stages of Revelation. So yesterday was the beginning, right? So God made |
| 1:41.4 | him, makes himself known through creation, God makes himself known to Adam and Eve, and then |
| 1:45.2 | there's this break, you know, obviously the fall. And then we talked about how God made himself |
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