Day 86: God’s Plan of Salvation (2025)

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

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🗓️ 27 March 2025

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

How can we have free will if the Scriptures foretell God’s plan of salvation? This is a great mystery and something we might struggle to understand. Fr. Mike explains what it means to say God’s plan of predestination includes God’s permissive will, each person’s free will, and human beings’ response to the Father’s grace. Today’s readings are Catechism paragraphs 599-605.

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,
0:09.3	where we encounter God's plan of sheer 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
0:16.8	Ascension. In 365 days, we'll read through the Catechism of the Catholic Church, discovering our
0:21.7	identity in God's family.
0:23.2	As we journey together toward our heavenly home.
0:24.7	This is Day 86.
0:25.9	We're reading paragraphs 599 to 605.
0:28.6	As always, I'm using the Ascension edition of the Catechism, which includes the foundations
0:31.6	of faith approach.
0:32.6	You can follow along with any recent versions of the Catechism of the Catholic Church.
0:35.7	It's all the same. And to download your own catechism and your reading plan, you can visit ascensionpress.com
0:40.6	slash C-I-Y.
0:42.3	And lastly, you can click follow or subscribe in your podcast app for daily updates and daily
0:46.3	notifications.
0:47.0	This day is day 86.
0:48.3	As I said yesterday, golly.
0:50.2	Yesterday we talked about what is it that we believe about the role of the Jews when it came to
0:55.8	Jesus' condemnation and his crucifixion. And the church is emphatic in saying that we do not lay
1:02.0	the guilt of our Lord's death at the feet of the Jews. We do not place blame. We take the blame,
1:08.6	right? Essentially, that all sinners were the authors of
1:11.1	Christ's passion. And that includes ourselves. We yesterday also, we had that convicting word of
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