Day 219: Marriage in God’s Plan (2026)
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What is the purpose of today’s episode and which Catechism paragraphs are being studied?
Hi, my name is Father Mike Schmitz, and you're listening to the Catechism in a Year podcast, where we encounter God's plan of sheer goodness for us, revealed in Scripture and passed down through the tradition of the Catholic faith. The Catechism in a Year is brought to you by Ascension. In 365 days, we'll read through the Catechism of the Catholic Church, discovering our identity and God's family as we journey together toward our heavenly home. This is day two hundred and nineteen. We are reading paragraphs sixteen oh one to sixteen oh eight. As always, I'm using the Ascension. Edition of the Catechism, which includes a 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 own catechism in a year reading plan by visiting AscensionPress.com/slash CIY. And lastly, you can click follow or subscribe in your podcast app for daily updates and daily notifications. As I said, today, day two nineteen, yesterday, we had our last day of holy orders. Today we have our first day of holy matrimony. You probably already knew that. was gonna was coming because I mentioned it a bunch of times yesterday. And so as we launch into today, what we're gonna see is we're gonna see what is marriage in God's plan. So there's two aspects we're looking at first, and then tomorrow we'll look at no more aspects about marriage and God's plan. But the first two are marriage in the order of creation and then marriage under the regime of sin.
Those are the two kind of like maybe handles we're gonna look at today. So how did God intend this to be? What did God intend for marriage to be? And then how do we experience it now? In in the fact that, you know, we live in a broken world. We have uh original sin. We have our own actual sins that we tend to choose in our daily lives. And so how do we experience it? So what was God's intention? How do we experience it? And tomorrow we're gonna look at marriage under the pedagogy of the law and also marriage in the Lord. So looking at that, but today it the Then these two aspects we're looking at more in a deeper way, just a couple paragraphs each. Marriage in the order of creation.
How does the Catechism define the matrimonial covenant between a man and a woman?
What was God's intention? What's God's vision? What is God's vision for marriage? And then what's our experience? What's marriage under the regime of sin? Like how do we experience this great gift that's been distorted? It's not lost, but it has been broken in some ways. And so we're looking at at those two aspects of marriage as we launch into ah, this is so good. You know, I think maybe. Sometimes you might have might we might think that, oh, we're gonna talk now about the sacrament of holy matrimony, and we're gonna begin by saying, you know, the sacrament of holy matrimony is such and such, and kind of like this really antiseptic or really kind of sterile vision of it. Not that at all. We're looking at what is marriage in God's plan, which is that the word that comes to my mind is the word robust.
I'm not sure if that's the best word, but it is full, it is dynamic, it is active, it's alive. And because God's plan is is rightful, it's active, God's plan is alive. And so marriage and God's plan is gonna be a great gift. Oh so so as we launch into this study, uh learning about this great gift, maybe even being reminded of some aspects of this great gift, let us call upon our Father and call for the Holy Spirit to come and guide our minds and lighten lighten them and Set our hearts on fire. So we pray. Father in heaven, in the name of your Son Jesus Christ, we ask you to please receive our prayer this morning. through the power of your Holy Spirit dwelling inside of us that you give to us freely and give to us for our sanctification, for our salvation, for our growth and becoming more and more like you, we ask you to please be
Teach us today. We ask you to please Help us to be docile to your movement, to your word, to your your vision for what marriage
is supposed to
be,
what marriage is meant to be, and also how you can even work in our brokenness.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is the purpose of today’s episode and which Catechism paragraphs are being studied?
0:05–1:49
2
How does the Catechism define the matrimonial covenant between a man and a woman?
1:49–4:51
3
What does the Church teach about marriage in the order of creation?
4:51–9:05
4
Why is marriage described as a partnership oriented toward the good of the spouses?
9:05–11:55
5
How does the Catechism explain the impact of original sin on the marriage relationship?
11:55–14:46
6
What are the common disorders that sin introduces into marriage and how are they described?
14:46–17:20
7
How does God’s grace restore the brokenness of marriage caused by sin?
17:20–20:00
8
What practical prayers and calls to action does Father Mike give for couples today?
20:00–20:42