Day 81: Christ’s Paschal Mystery (2025)
The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz)
Ascension
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🗓️ 22 March 2025
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
Fr. Mike begins his examination of the Paschal Mystery of Christ’s passion, death, and ultimate Resurrection. He emphasizes that all of Scripture points to this Paschal Mystery, and that through our faith, we can try to examine the circumstances of Jesus’ life to fully understand our own redemption. We also explore Jesus’ relationship with Israel and our own relationship with our Jewish forefathers. Today’s readings are Catechism paragraphs 571-576.
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, |
| 0:09.4 | where we encounter God's plan of sheer goodness for us, revealed in scripture, and passed down |
| 0:13.2 | through the tradition of the Catholic faith. The Catechism in a year is brought to you by |
| 0:16.7 | Ascension. In 365 days, we'll read through the Catechism of the Catholic Church, discovering |
| 0:21.1 | our identity and God's family as we journey together toward our heavenly home. This is day 81. We're |
| 0:26.2 | reading paragraphs 571 to 576. We're in a new section. The new section is Article 4, which is |
| 0:31.6 | Jesus Christ suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died, and was buried. We're entering |
| 0:35.7 | into the mystery of Christ's |
| 0:37.5 | passion and death. But before we get started, I wanted to remind you that I'm using the |
| 0:41.6 | Ascension edition of the Catechism, which includes the foundations of faith approach, but you can |
| 0:44.7 | use any recent version. I know, any official version of the Catechism of the Catholic Church. |
| 0:49.4 | You can also download your catechism into your reading plan by visiting ascensionpress.com slash cI. And lastly, |
| 0:55.2 | you can. I don't know if I mentioned this yesterday. Did I forget to mention that you can click |
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| 1:04.0 | sense that I might have forgotten. I don't know. And that's, I'm bothered. I couldn't sleep at all |
| 1:07.6 | last night thinking about the fact that I might have forgotten to let you know that you can click follow. You can click subscribe. It's day 81. As I said, |
| 1:16.7 | paragraphs 571 to 576. The last few days, we've been talking about the mysteries of Christ's life, |
| 1:23.2 | right? Everything from the prophecy of his birth to his infancy to his hidden life to the public ministry |
| 1:29.8 | all the way up to this moment where we're going to dive deeply into the mystery of his suffering |
| 1:36.5 | and his crucifixion and his death and his burial i mean you know we're going to get to this place |
| 1:42.5 | but what is it to say that christ descended into hell because we're going to say this place, but what is it to say that Christ descended into hell? |
| 1:45.0 | Because we're going to say that at some point. What is it to say that he suffered under Pontius Pilate? |
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