Day 85: The Trial of Christ (2025)

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

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🗓️ 26 March 2025

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Summary

In this reading, we learn that all sinners are the authors of Christ’s Passion. We do not blame the Jews for the Crucifixion of Jesus as we know that it is our own sins that caused his Passion and death. Fr. Mike tells us that the Jews are not collectively responsible for Jesus’ death, and they should not be spoken of as rejected or cursed. We’re reminded that when we choose sin and deny Christ by our deeds, we crucify him anew in our hearts. Today’s readings are Catechism paragraphs 595-598.

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 your goodness for us, revealed in scripture and passed
0:13.0	down through the tradition of the Catholic faith. The Catechism in a year is brought to you by
0:16.6	Ascension. In 365 days, we'll read through the Catechism of the Catholic Church, discovering
0:20.8	our identity in God's family as we journey together toward our heavenly home.
0:24.3	It is Day 85, reading paragraphs 595 to 598. As always, I'm using the Ascension edition of the
0:29.6	Catechism, which includes the foundations of faith approach, but you can follow along with any
0:32.8	recent version of the Catechism of the Catholic Church. You can also download your own catechism into your reading plan by visiting ascensionpress.com
0:39.1	slash C-I-Y.
0:40.7	That stands for Catechism in a year.
0:42.3	If you haven't put that together, also you can click follow or subscribe in your podcast app to receive daily updates and daily notifications yesterday.
0:49.9	Well, we talked about it's day 85 today.
0:52.0	Yesterday we talked about how Jesus fulfills the temple.
0:56.5	We talked about how Jesus recognizes that there's a scandal that Christ offers in the fact
1:02.7	that he is who he says he is.
1:05.0	And that not only did he claim to be the Messiah, he claimed equality with God himself. And because of this, Jesus becomes the
1:14.4	crux, right? He becomes the turning point of history, not merely because he claimed to be God,
1:20.5	because he demonstrated that he actually is God. And of course, that last sentence, well, we had the
1:26.3	in brief, the nuggets at the end of this,
1:28.0	but we also had that last sentence of paragraph 591 that said the members of the synhedron
1:31.9	were thus acting at the same time out of ignorance and the hardness of their unbelief. And the
1:37.4	recognition, of course, is that all of us, all of us are in that same boat. You know, I mentioned
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