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 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...
Day 2: How the Catechism Works (2026)
The Catechism reveals to us its intended readership, structure, and some practical directions for use. Fr. Mike and the Roman Catechism remind us that...
Day 1: To Know and Love God (2026)
Welcome to Day 1 of The Catechism in a Year! Today, we begin our journey with Fr. Mike through the Catechism from the very beginning: the Prologue. Th...
BONUS: How Do We Trust in Church Authority? (with Bishop Cozzens)
In this special bonus episode, Bishop Andrew Cozzens joins Fr. Mike Schmitz to talk about his role as a bishop of the Catholic Church, his involvement...
Day 365: So Be It (2025)
Congratulations, you have reached Day 365! We conclude our journey through the Catechism with the final “nugget day” as we review the seven petitions...
BONUS: Why Scripture and Tradition? (with Jeff Cavins)
In this bonus episode of The Catechism in a Year, Jeff Cavins joins Fr. Mike to share the connection between Scripture and Tradition, and provide the...
Day 364: Deliver Us from Evil
Toward the end of the Lord’s Prayer, we implore God to protect us from temptation and from the evil one. Fr. Mike clarifies what we mean when we ask G...
Day 363: Forgive Us Our Trespasses (2025)
Forgiving those who have hurt us is a challenging call. Fr. Mike explains what it means to "forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespas...
Day 362: Our Daily Bread (2025)
Asking God for our “daily bread” is a petition for him to fill our physical and spiritual hunger. Fr. Mike breaks down this simple yet profound petiti...
Day 361: The Kingdom and Will of God (2025)
When we pray for God’s Kingdom to come and God’s will to be done, we are asking for the final coming of the reign of God and for his plan of salvation...
Day 360: Hallowing God’s Name (2025)
What does it mean to hallow God’s name? We are not the source or cause of God’s holiness. As the Catechism says, we hallow God’s name so it may be glo...
Day 359: The Seven Petitions (2025)
In the Lord’s Prayer, we make seven different petitions to our Father in heaven. Together, we examine what makes each set of these seven petitions dif...