Day 87: Christ’s Life as Offering (2025)

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

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🗓️ 28 March 2025

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Summary

Jesus Christ’s entire life was an offering to God the Father, and he freely embraced God’s will and his plan for salvation. We learn that the Eucharist memorializes Jesus’ free offering of himself. In the garden, the night before his Passion and death, Jesus suffered real agony as he contemplated his death, yet he accepted his death as redemptive. Fr. Mike invites us to participate in this redemption by attending Mass and receiving the Eucharist. Today’s readings are Catechism paragraphs 606-612.

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	I'm my name is Father Mike Schmitz, and you're listening to the Catechism in a Year podcast
0:09.1	where we encounter God's plan of sheer goodness for us, revealed in scripture, and passed
0:12.7	down through the tradition of the Catholic faith. The Catechism in a year was brought to you by
0:16.5	Ascension. In 365 days, we'll read through the Catechism of the Catholic Church discovering our identity
0:21.9	in God's family as we journey together toward our heavenly home. This is Day 87. We're reading paragraphs
0:26.3	606 to 612. As always, I'm using the Ascension edition of the catechism, which includes the foundations
0:31.5	of faith approach, but you can follow along with any recent version of the catechism of the Catholic
0:35.2	Church. We also have a catechism in your year reading plan. You can visit essentialpress.com slash C-I-Y to get that.
0:42.1	You can also click follow or subscribe in your podcast app, podcast app for daily updates and daily
0:47.5	notifications. It is, as I said, day 87. Well done. Reading paragraph 606 to 612.
0:53.4	Um, gosh, this, we've been walking with Christ in his death, right?
0:58.3	In his passion.
1:00.1	And here we are today.
1:01.8	Today, the kind of the main header is Christ offered himself to his father for our sins.
1:07.5	And so today we're going to highlight not only the fact that here is the whole of Christ's life is an offering to the father.
1:13.0	We talked about that days ago when we talked about how Christ's whole life is a mystery.
1:17.7	His whole life is an offering to the father.
1:19.8	Even the incarnation is a yes of obedience, a yes of obedient love to his father.
1:25.1	So we have the incarnation.
1:26.4	And that's so critical. His whole life,
1:28.9	all the obedience that he offered to Mary and Joseph, every breath he took on this planet was an
1:35.0	offering to the father. So when he gets to the end, right, when he gets to those last moments of his
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