Day 88: Christ’s Definitive Sacrifice
The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz)
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🗓️ 29 March 2025
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
Christ’s death is the unique and definitive sacrifice. It is both the Paschal Sacrifice that accomplishes redemption and the sacrifice of the New Covenant that restores man’s communion with God. Fr. Mike tell us that Jesus Christ is the one mediator, and yet invites us to participate in his sacrifice when he calls on us to take up our crosses and follow him. When we accept our sufferings out of love, we are united to Christ. Today’s readings are Catechism paragraphs 613-623.
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, where we |
| 0:09.9 | encounter God's plan of sheer goodness for us, revealed in scripture, and passed down through the |
| 0:13.8 | tradition of the Catholic faith. The Catechism in a year is brought to you by Ascension. In 365 days, |
| 0:18.9 | we will read through the Catechism of the Catholic Church, |
| 0:20.9 | discovering our identity and God's family. As we journey together toward our heavenly home, it is Day 88. We're reading paragraphs 613 to 623. As always, I'm using the Ascension edition of the Catechism, which includes the foundations of faith approach, but you can follow along with any recent version of the Catechism of the Catholic Church. You can also download your catechism in a year reading plan by visiting ascensionpress.com slash cI and you can click follow or subscribe |
| 0:43.7 | in your podcast app for daily updates and daily notifications. It is day 88 today. You know, we've been |
| 0:49.0 | talking about what is it to talk about the trial of Jesus, to talk about the death of Jesus. |
| 0:54.6 | What is it to say that Jesus was crucified? |
| 0:56.8 | How does that save us? |
| 0:57.8 | Well, we've been talking about how his yes to the father has been remarkable. |
| 1:03.8 | That is yes to the father out of love for the father. |
| 1:05.7 | And also his yes to the father out of love for us is remarkable. |
| 1:10.2 | Remember, we talked about how Christ's whole life yesterday, Christ's whole life is an offering to the Father out of love for us is remarkable. Remember, we talked about how Christ's whole |
| 1:12.0 | life yesterday, Christ's whole life is an offering to the Father. And not only that, but also he gives |
| 1:17.5 | himself, not only on the cross, he offers himself to the Father on the cross, but also he offers |
| 1:22.1 | himself to us freely in the Eucharist, as is that incredible participation. |
| 1:28.2 | It's been said that when you are at the altar, like when you're at the mass, you're at the foot |
| 1:33.2 | of the cross on Calvary, that that is you're not only at the Last Supper, you're also at Galgatha. |
| 1:38.3 | You're also at Calvary, which is just a remarkable and a mystery. |
| 1:41.5 | Today we're going to talk about how Christ's death is the unique and |
| 1:46.8 | definitive sacrifice. One of the things that we remember and we recall that we understand is that |
| 1:53.6 | Christ's death is not an execution. I mean, yes, from the Romans perspective, from maybe even people |
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