Day 105: Christ’s Church and its Mission (2025)
The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz)
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🗓️ 15 April 2025
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
The Church has no other light than Christ's, and the Holy Spirit is the source of all its holiness. We believe that the Church is "holy," "catholic," "one," and "apostolic." Fr. Mike explains that Jesus has promised to guide the Church in the truth. Members of the Church are called and uniquely belong to the Lord. We also learn that the word 'church' has three inseparable meanings: the liturgical assembly, the local community, and the universal community of believers. The Church draws her life from the body of Christ and so becomes Christ's body. Today's readings are Catechism paragraphs 748-752.
This episode has been found to be in conformity with the Catechism by the Institute on the Catechism, under the Subcommittee on the Catechism, USCCB.
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Please note: The Catechism of the Catholic Church contains adult themes that may not be suitable for children - parental discretion is advised.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, my name is Father Mike Schmitz, and you're listening to the Catechism in a Year podcast, |
| 0:09.6 | where we encounter God's plan of sure goodness for us, revealed in scripture, and passed |
| 0:13.4 | down through the tradition of the Catholic faith. The Catechism in a Year is brought to you by |
| 0:17.7 | Ascension. In 365 days, we'll read through the Catechism of the Catholic |
| 0:21.7 | Church, discovering our identity in God's family as we journey together toward our heavenly home. |
| 0:26.1 | This is Day 105. Congratulations. You made it to this day. We're reading paragraphs 748 to 752. |
| 0:31.8 | As always, the Bible. Nope, I'm reading the Catechism. As always, I'm using the Ascension edition |
| 0:37.1 | of the Catechism, which includes the I'm using the Ascension edition of the Catechism, which |
| 0:38.4 | includes the foundations of faith approach. You can follow along with any recent version of the |
| 0:42.3 | Catechism of the Catholic Church, which you might have already discovered by now. You can also |
| 0:45.7 | download your free Catechism in a year reading plan by visiting ascensionpress.com slash CI. |
| 0:50.8 | And you can click follow or subscribe in your podcast app for daily updates and daily notifications. |
| 0:56.5 | Also, just a quick thank you to all those who have supported the production of this podcast |
| 0:59.4 | with your prayers, your financial gifts. It's incredible. Thank you so much. We could not do |
| 1:03.5 | this without you. But of course, also thank you so much for your prayers overall. It's just a gift. |
| 1:09.2 | As I said, today's paragraph 748 to 752 with only five short |
| 1:12.9 | paragraphs. But we're reading a new section or a new article. Article 9, I believe in the Holy |
| 1:18.3 | Catholic Church. One of the things you're going to hear in paragraphs 748 and 749 is the fact that |
| 1:24.4 | what we established the last couple of days. Remember, the church has been |
| 1:28.0 | establishing here in the catechism that the mission of Christ and the mission of the Holy Spirit |
| 1:32.5 | are the same mission, that their mission is inseparable. And one of the things we're going to |
| 1:37.0 | establish here is that all of the church's connections to the Lord are absolutely |
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