Day 261: Justification (2026)
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What is justification and why does the Catechism emphasize it?
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 in God's family as we journey together toward our heavenly home. This is day 261. We're reading paragraphs 1987 to 1995. 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 you can click follow or subscribe in your podcast app for daily updates and daily notifications because today is day 261.
You know we're getting closer and closer to that 265 mark, which means only 100 days after this. But man, why would we want to rush? I don't know. Because this has been so good. Actually, today, uh, today is article two here in this next section on salvation, and it's on grace and justification. And so this is a huge, massive topic. I just to understand how is it that we are justified? How are we saved? Like, what is grace? What does grace do in our lives? Now we talked about this, of course, in pillar one, but we're also talking about this in a very significant way here in pillar three, because man, the life of Yeah. the Holy Spirit. This is how we're called to live, right? That we're not just covered by grace.
Grace does something inside of us, right? We're not just clothed with the Holy Spirit, not just clothed in Christ, although yes, of course we are, but we're our fundamental disposition towards the Lord is radically reoriented. We are made into new creatures. Remember we talked about this in Pillar Two, that what the sacraments do, what Jesus does through the sacraments in us, the Holy Spirit, right? Radically changes us. We have become a new creation. And so what is that? And what does grace do? How does grace justify us? How does Jesus Christ justify us through the power of the Holy Spirit? We're talking about all of those things beginning today for the next few days. Which is just I mean, man, talk about something that really
is complex and yet at the same time is so ultimately simple.
How does the Holy Spirit’s grace actually justify us?
That was so complex because what do all these words mean? Justification and sanctification and grace and merit and and faith and works, all these things. And yet at the same time. Here's what Jesus Christ has done. The grace of the Holy Spirit has the power to justify us. That is, to cleanse us from our sins and to communicate to us the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ and through baptism. That's what we're going to talk about today. So let's pray to our Heavenly Father, Father in heaven. You are good, and you desire that your children not only come to know you, but become like you. Lord, in the life of the Holy Spirit, the life of grace, you give us your gift. You make us like you. By sending us your Holy Spirit, we have become partakers in the divine nature.
And by Sending us your Holy Spirit, you give us the power to live as sons and daughters of God. So Lord, this day, wherever we are right now, please meet us with that grace. Wherever we are right now, please meet us with your salvation, meet us with your justification and sanctification, meet us with your Holy Spirit. Lord God, just meet us. And help us. Help us to see you. In this world around us, help us to hear your voice. Help us to become like you. So that all may see and know you, and that so that you may be glorified in all things. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen. In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. It's day two sixty-one. We're reading paragraphs nineteen eighty-seven to nineteen ninety-five.
Article two Grace and Justification Justification. The grace of the Holy Spirit has the power to justify us, that is, to cleanse us from our sins, and to communicate to us the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ and through baptism.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is justification and why does the Catechism emphasize it?
0:05–2:09
2
How does the Holy Spirit’s grace actually justify us?
2:09–4:27
3
What does it mean that justification detaches us from sin and purifies our hearts?
4:27–8:30
4
How are faith, hope, and charity poured into us through justification?
8:30–10:49
5
Why is justification described as both a legal declaration and an interior transformation?
10:49–12:45
6
What role does baptism play in conferring justification and righteousness?
12:45–14:48
7
How does Saint Augustine’s view of justification compare to creation?
14:48–17:07
8
How can we live out the tangible effects of justification in daily life?
17:07–18:55