Day 106: Symbols of the Church (2025)

The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz)

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🗓️ 16 April 2025

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Summary

There are many different symbols of the Church that can help us to understand it. We learn some of these symbols today, including a sheepfold, a cultivated field, the building of God, the spotless lamb, the bride of Christ, and our mother. Fr. Mike reminds us that, like us, the Church on earth needs constant reform. Jesus loves the Church and gave himself up for her. If we have any hostility or indifference toward the Church, we must check our hearts and pray to love what God loves. Today’s readings are Catechism paragraphs 753-757.

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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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 your goodness for us, revealed in scripture, and passed down
0:13.6	through the tradition of the Catholic faith. The Catechism in a Year is brought to you by
0:17.0	Ascension. In 365 days, we'll read through the Catechism of the Catholic Church,
0:21.3	discovering our identity in God's family as we journey together toward our heavenly home.
0:24.9	This is day 106. We're reading paragraphs 753 to 757. As always, the translation, the addition
0:31.8	of the catechism using, I think this yesterday too. My mind went to the Bible in the year.
0:37.3	I'm using the Catech, the Ascension Edition of the Catechism, which includes the foundations of
0:42.3	faith approach, but you can follow along with any recent version of the Catechism of the Catholic
0:46.2	Church.
0:46.4	You can also download your catechism in your reading plan by visiting ascensionpress.com
0:50.6	slash CIY.
0:51.6	And also, you know.
0:53.0	You can click follow, you can click subscribe in your
0:55.3	podcast app for daily updates and daily notifications. Today is day 106. As I said, we're reading
1:00.9	paragraphs 753 to 757. Yesterday, we talked about like the words, right, not only the source of
1:06.7	the church being the son and the spirit, but also how the church is holy, Catholic, she's one,
1:12.6	she's apostolic, that word ecclesia, right, what means the call to call out of.
1:18.1	The word Kirka, or church, means what belongs to the Lord.
1:21.0	We talked about how you and I belong to the Lord now.
1:23.1	We also highlighted the three kind of like levels or three designations of the church, meaning the liturgical assembly, the local community, which can be parish or diocese and the whole universal community of believers.
1:35.7	And those three meanings are inseparable.
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