Why You Should Read the Catechism of the Catholic Church (+ NEW Podcast)
The Fr. Mike Schmitz Catholic Podcast
Ascension
4.9 • 7.1K Ratings
🗓️ 30 June 2022
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Summary
In response to countless requests, Ascension is launching The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) on January 1, 2023! https://tinyurl.com/29o6p2o4
With this podcast, Catholics will:
- Read the entire Catechism of the Catholic Church in 365 days
- Understand the essentials of the Catholic Faith and why they matter
- See how Church teaching is rooted in Sacred Scripture
- Absorb over 2,000 years of Sacred Tradition
- Encounter God’s plan of sheer goodness
- Transform their relationship with the Church that Christ founded.
If you have ever wanted to understand what it means to be Catholic and allow those truths to shape your life—this podcast is for you! We can’t wait to start this incredible journey with you.
This podcast is free and always will be. It is only because of the generosity of our listeners that we have been able to consider tackling such a monumental project. But, we have limited resources. With funding from generous supporters like you, we can do even more than simply create the podcast: https://tinyurl.com/25skzc83
Above all, please pray for Father Mike, the Ascension team, and every single person who will ever listen to this podcast. Thank you, and God bless you.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | How about him? He's Father Mike Schmitz and this is the center of reasons. |
| 0:02.4 | So I have a friend, he's a priest in Detroit and his name is Father John Picardo and Father John |
| 0:07.2 | runs this ministry. It's just really powerful and credible ministry of spreading the gospel and |
| 0:11.9 | essentially letting Catholics know, reminding them of the gift that they've been given as sons and |
| 0:18.8 | daughters of God our Father, as those who've been redeemed by Jesus Christ and those filled by the |
| 0:23.0 | Holy Spirit to basically live the lives they're called to live, right? To be the people |
| 0:29.4 | that we as Christians, as Catholic Christians have been called to be, there have been 2000 years |
| 0:35.1 | of Christians living in this world, transforming this world, yes, struggling and failing and |
| 0:39.6 | and you know not doing it well but also 2000 years of saints, 2000 years of people who have been |
| 0:46.3 | praying with God's Word, have been reflecting on God's Word, have been wrestling with God's Word |
| 0:50.4 | and with each other and figuring out what is it that God wants me to do with His Word? How is it |
| 0:55.4 | that He's calling me to live with His Word? How is it, what's He calling me to believe? How is He |
| 1:00.4 | calling me to pray? How is He calling me to worship? And so here's the thing, it's crazy. If you've |
| 1:04.4 | joined us in the two years ago, if you joined us this year on the Bible and the Year podcast, |
| 1:09.2 | that's phenomenal, right? Because it's one of those journeys that if you have made it or if you're |
| 1:13.8 | currently going through it, I'm going through it a second year, I love it, it's credible. The |
| 1:16.8 | narrator is like so-so but the word of God is incredible. One of the things you realized was here's |
| 1:22.4 | God's Word that's proclaimed. Here are the stories of the Bible that maybe you're familiar with them, |
| 1:27.2 | maybe you're unfamiliar with them, but you were finally brought into the story of God's revealing |
| 1:33.8 | Himself to the world, of God's engaging us and calling us to be His sons and daughters and live |
| 1:38.2 | as disciples of Jesus in this world. But there's also a bunch of questions, right? Over the course |
| 1:43.1 | of 2000 years, as I said, like three times now, the church has wrestled with revelation. The church |
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