The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) Day 67: The Humanity and Divinity of Christ (2026)
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Mar 8, 2026 A deep look at how the second Person of the Trinity assumed human nature without losing divinity. Discussion of Christ’s human soul, intellect, will, and body and how he acted, thought, and loved as a true human. Refutation of heresies denying his full humanity and exploration of his limited human knowledge and voluntary self-emptying.
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Full Humanity Without Losing Divinity
- Jesus is both true God and true man without one nature absorbing the other.
- The Church teaches the human nature was assumed, not absorbed, so Jesus kept a real human soul, intellect, will, and body while remaining divine.
The Trinity Lives In Christ's Humanity
- The Son of God communicates his Trinitarian personal mode of existence to his humanity.
- That means Jesus, as the eternal Son, brings the relational life of Father, Son, and Spirit into his human person and existence.
Jesus Redeems Every Human Faculty
- In his human nature Jesus truly acted like a human: working with hands, thinking with a human mind, and loving with a human heart.
- Fr. Mike ties this to redemption: by entering every human faculty in obedience he redeems the whole of human life.