4 Essentials for Every Catholic

The Fr. Mike Schmitz Catholic Podcast

Ascension

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 30 April 2020

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

In a previous episode, Fr. Mike said that all Catholics grow in the same “soil” together, but the fruit we bear is unique. But what is this common soil? What are the essentials for every Catholic Christian?

“And they devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and fellowship, to the breaking of bread and the prayers.”

So there are four elements in the soil:

Teachings of the Apostles: Magisterial teaching of the Church, Sacred Scripture, and Tradition.
Communal Life (Fellowship): It’s not just me praying to Jesus. We need to share life somehow.
Breaking of the Bread: This refers to the Mass, not just eating together.
Prayer: There are so many ways to pray as a Catholic, and so many awesome prayers. You can pray the Liturgy of the Hours with the Church, or in your own words, or both. But to be in the soil you have to pray. For a great Liturgy of the Hours app, check out iBreviary.

God wants us to flourish in faith, hope, and love for him and for others. He is the one who makes us grow in holiness, but in order to flourish we have to be nourished by the soil he gave us.

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0:00.0	I have a sport code on.
0:01.4	I don't need a sport code with that.
0:03.1	I'm gonna have a sport. I'm gonna wear a sport code.
0:04.5	There was a video I made a little while ago.
0:06.8	I talked about like as Catholic Christians, as Christians, as disciples of Jesus,
0:10.3	that we're all meant to be in the same soil. That's what unites us.
0:13.1	But then people ask like, what's the soil? What's the common soil that we have?
0:16.2	And I'm like, oh.
0:26.0	Now I'm gonna use Father Mike Schmitts and this is such a present.
0:28.0	Right now, I'm in the season of Easter. Maybe you are too.
0:30.4	One of the things that happens in the season of Easter is that the church reads
0:33.6	when the axiopostles basically every single day.
0:35.8	Because it's the early church and the early church is adhered as the church
0:39.2	after resurrection, after Pentecost, and like boom,
0:42.8	in these Christians are going out and they're dedicating their lives to following the way.
0:47.2	They're following the teachings of Jesus, following him.
0:49.2	They're his disciples.
0:50.3	And so the church proclaims this super clearly.
0:52.7	So Acts 2.42 describes the life of the early disciples.
0:56.6	It says this in my Bible.
0:58.7	They devoted themselves to the teaching of the apostles and to the communal life,
1:02.7	to the breaking of the bread and to the prayers.
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