Day 83: Jesus and the Temple (2025)

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

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🗓️ 24 March 2025

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

Given that the Temple was at the heart of Jewish life and worship, Jesus’ relationship with the Temple speaks volumes. Fr. Mike highlights Jesus’ reverence for the Temple and unpacks the remarkable implications of Jesus’ prophecy about the destruction of the Temple. Today’s readings are Catechism paragraphs 583-586.

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,
0:09.2	where we encounter God's plan of shared goodness for us, revealed in scripture and passed down
0:13.0	through the tradition of the Catholic faith. The Catechism in a Year is brought to you by ascension.
0:17.0	In 365 days, we'll read through the Catechism of the Catholic Church discovering our
0:21.1	identity and God's family as we journey together toward our heavenly home.
0:24.1	This is Day 83.
0:25.4	We're reading paragraphs 583 to 586.
0:28.8	As always, I'm using the Ascension edition of the Catechism, which includes the foundations
0:32.3	of faith approach.
0:33.2	You can follow along with any recent version of the Catechism of the Catholic Church to download
0:36.6	your own catechism in a year reading plan visit ascensionpress.com slash c i. And also you can
0:42.2	click follow or subscribe in your podcast app for daily updates and daily notifications. As I said,
0:46.3	it's day 83. We're reading paragraphs 583 to 586 yesterday. We talked about Jesus and the law.
0:54.1	Today we're talking about Jesus and the temple. It's
0:56.2	only four paragraphs. We recognize that we have to understand the importance of the temple.
1:02.8	I remember hearing it described that the temple isn't just a place of worship, although to say
1:08.0	just a place of worship is massively an understatement. It would be like
1:11.4	the temple is not only St. Peter's Basilica, right? This heart of, if you want to have like the
1:16.4	symbol of the image of where Catholics worship, it's also like the White House. In a sense of
1:22.1	governance would happen from the temple and like Wall Street in the sense that commerce would
1:27.2	happen regulated in the temple.
1:30.4	And that sense of it all being connected.
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