The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz)
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The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz)
In Ascension’s The Catechism in a Year podcast, Fr. Mike Schmitz guides you through the entire Catechism of the Catholic Church in 365 episodes, providing explanation, insight, and encouragement along the way. Unlike any other Catechism podcast, The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) podcas...
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Day 42: The Work of Creation (2026)
Why did God create? The Catechism today gives us a glimpse into the reason for our existence as we learn about God’s marvelous work of creation. Fr. M...
Day 41: Origins and Ends (2026)
Together with Fr. Mike, we examine some of the different explanations for God’s existence outside of the Catholic understanding, such as Pantheism, Du...
Day 40: God Is the Creator (2026)
Fr. Mike explores God’s role as “Creator” and the vital importance of understanding God as the Creator of all things: heaven and earth, seen and unsee...
Day 39: The Father Almighty (2026)
Together, with Fr. Mike, we explore the nature of God as Almighty. Fr. Mike discusses three important points to keep in mind about the reality of God’...
Day 38: Summary of the Trinity (2026)
We have arrived at the “nugget day” or In Brief section for the paragraphs examining the nature of the Father in the Trinity. Fr. Mike reiterates some...
Day 37: The Divine Economy (2026)
Fr. Mike continues to unpack the Church’s teachings on the Trinity. Today, we move into an examination of the divine economy or how God has revealed a...
Day 36: The Nature of the Trinity (2026)
Together, with Fr. Mike, we continue our exploration of the Church’s teachings on the nature of the Holy Trinity. We examine three main ideas. The fir...
Day 35: Formation of Trinitarian Dogma (2026)
Fr. Mike explores the formation of the Church’s dogma on the nature of the Trinity. He unpacks the terms used by the Church in an attempt to explain t...
Day 34: Unity in the Holy Spirit (2026)
The Catechism introduces us to the Holy Spirit and describes how the Spirit reveals the Father and the Son to us. It also gives us some background and...
Day 33: God as Father (2026)
The Catechism describes the various ways that God has revealed himself to us as Father over the ages, and gives us insight into God the Father “in rel...
Day 32: The Most Holy Trinity (2026)
Christians are baptized “in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,” not the “names” of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. The Ca...
Day 31: The Meaning of Faith (2026)
The Catechism wraps up our “I Believe in God” paragraphs with an In Brief and “The Implications of Faith in One God”—or, what God’s being means for us...
Day 30: God Is Who Is (2026)
God is truth, God is love, and God is being itself. Today's Catechism readings begin to unpack the eternal nature of God and share with us God’s “inne...
Day 29: Knowing the Name of God (2026)
We can learn a lot about the nature of God from his Divine Name revealed in Scripture. When God said to Moses, “I am who I am,” this was a revelation...
Day 28: The Nature of God (2026)
In this episode, we discuss the nature of God, “who” God is, beginning with God the Father. Our reading explains how the Creed begins with God the Fat...
Day 27: The Gift of the Creed (2026)
The Catechism we are reading follows the structure of the Apostles’ Creed with frequent references to the Nicene Creed for further details and explana...
Day 26: Communion of Believers (2026)
Today we further realize the sense of the word “credo,” meaning “I believe.” As we read the Apostles’ Creed and the Nicene Creed, we discover the diff...
Day 25: Summary of Faith (2026)
As Catholics, we can’t pick and choose the areas of Church teaching we want to accept; we must believe the entire truth of the Faith because we believ...
Day 24: Unity of Faith (2026)
As we wrap up the current section, we learn about the unity of faith and how the Church is meant to be united in Christ through apostolic succession....
Day 23: We Believe (2026)
While faith is deeply personal, it is not an isolated act. Today, Fr. Mike reflects on the reality that our faith is communal. It is lived out and pas...
Day 22: Wrestling with Faith (2026)
In our Catechism readings today, Fr. Mike reflects on the motives of credibility for believing in God. We learn that God offers us signs and proofs th...
Day 21: Believing God (2026)
Fr. Mike continues reflecting on the meaning of faith and how it works in our lives. We learn that faith is a grace from God, a supernatural virtue th...
Day 20: Stepping in Faith (2026)
As we dive into a new chapter today, we learn about how we are called to respond to God’s Revelation. In particular, we discover that Mary and Abraham...
Day 19: Summary of Sacred Scripture (2026)
Today, we arrive, with Fr. Mike, at the In Brief section for Article III. Together, we revisit eight of the main ideas or “nuggets” from the readings...
Day 18: The Unity of the Testaments (2026)
Fr. Mike unpacks the vital unity between the Old and New Testaments. Together, we examine prefigurements and types from the Old Testament being fulfil...
Day 17: The Canon of Scripture (2026)
Fr. Mike explores the formation of the canon of Scripture. He emphasizes the importance of contemplating and venerating all 73 books of both the New a...
Day 16: Senses of Scripture (2026)
Fr. Mike examines the two senses of Scripture: the literal sense and the spiritual sense. Together, we further unpack the meaning of the literal sense...
Day 15: Interpreting Scripture (2026)
How do Catholics interpret Scripture? Fr. Mike breaks down the three basic principles for interpreting Scripture: attentiveness to the content and uni...
Day 14: The Eternal Word of God (2026)
Fr. Mike reflects on the sacredness of Scripture and why the Church venerates Scripture with great reverence. He helps us understand the mystery behin...
Day 13: The Single Deposit of Faith (2026)
In today’s “In Brief'' section, Fr. Mike reviews the relationship between Sacred Tradition and Sacred Scripture, emphasizing that both make up the sin...
Day 12: Receiving Dogmas (2026)
How do we come to accept the binding truths of the Faith? Fr. Mike explains how the dogmas of the Faith are boundaries designed to help us know God an...
Day 11: Sources of Divine Revelation (2026)
Fr. Mike breaks down the Catechism’s teaching that divine revelation consists of both Sacred Scripture and Sacred Tradition and emphasizes why both so...
Day 10: The Apostolic Tradition (2026)
The Gospel was handed on in two ways — orally and in writing. Both Scripture and Tradition are sources of Divine Revelation. Fr. Mike describes how th...
Day 9: The Fullness of Revelation (2026)
In our Catechism reading today we learn how out of love, God has fully revealed himself by sending his Son, Jesus Christ who established God’s covenan...
Day 8: God Forms His People (2026)
God chose Abraham and made him the “father of a multitude of nations.” Then God formed Israel as his people, freeing them from slavery in Egypt. Fr. M...
Day 7: God Reveals Himself (2026)
God reveals himself to man and gives us the capacity to know and love him beyond our own natural abilities. From the very beginning, even after the fi...
Day 6: Knowing God With Certainty (2026)
Today’s reading is a summation of what we have learned so far. Man is made for God, and we are born with a capacity for knowing God. Using our senses,...
Day 5: How We Know God (2026)
What can we know about God? The Catechism tells us three important things: 1) We can know God with our human reason, but 2) that knowledge will always...
Day 4: Our Capacity for God (2026)
The Catechism begins to explore what it means “to believe” by examining our innate desire for God and all the ways we can come to know him. Fr. Mike g...
Day 3: What We Believe (Part 1 Introduction with Jeff Cavins) (2026)
Part 1 of the Catechism—the first pillar—is the longest part of the four parts of the Catechism, and arguably the most foundational. Fr. Mike sits dow...