Day 84: The Claim of Savior (2025)

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

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🗓️ 25 March 2025

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Jesus' claim that he is the one true God and the world's savior was the stumbling block for many Jews. Fr. Mike explains why Jesus' invitation to the Jewish people to have faith in him was a challenging task. We learn that hardness of heart and unbelief led the Pharisees to a tragic misunderstanding of Jesus. We are also at risk of such error, and recognizing our hardness of heart can help us to grow in faith. Today's readings are Catechism paragraphs 587-594.

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's 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 it down
0:13.1	through the tradition of the Catholic faith. The Catechism in a Year is brought to you by
0:16.5	Ascension. In 365 days, we'll read through the Catechism of the Catholic Church, discovering our identity
0:21.8	in God's family as we journeyed together toward our heavenly home.
0:24.6	This is Day 84.
0:26.0	We're reading paragraphs 587 to 594.
0:29.0	As always, I'm using the Ascension edition of the Catechism, which includes the foundations
0:32.4	of faith approach, but you can follow along with any recent version of the Catechism of the Catholic
0:36.5	Church. Also, if you want to download your own catechism in your reading plan, you can visit
0:40.2	ascensionpress.com slash C-I-Y.
0:42.9	And lastly, you can click follow or subscribe in your podcast app for daily updates, daily notifications.
0:47.9	As I said, I think it's day 84.
0:49.7	We're reading about, oh, man, this is incredible.
0:52.3	Yesterday, Jesus in the temple.
0:54.0	The day before, Jesus and the law,
0:55.8	he fulfills both of them. Today, the big title, right, is Jesus and Israel's faith in the one
1:02.9	God and Savior. This recognition, here are the people of Israel. They have been formed over
1:09.1	centuries. They've come to know the one true God.
1:13.5	They've come to be able to hear his voice, right, spoken through the prophets, spoken through
1:17.6	the words and books of sacred scripture, of the Old Testament. And Jesus then comes on the scene
1:23.4	and he invites faith in himself in the same way and to the same degree that the Lord God
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