Day 106: Symbols of the Church

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

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🗓️ 16 April 2023

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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.

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0:00.0	I'm your name is Father Mike Schmitz and you're listening to The Catechism in a Year Podcast,
0:09.4	where we encounter God's plan of your 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
0:16.8	by Ascension. In 365 days, we'll read through the Catechism of the Catholic Church, discovering
0:21.6	our identity and God's families. We journey together toward our heavenly home. This is day
0:25.5	106. We're reading paragraphs, 753 to 757. As always, the translation, the addition of
0:32.4	the Catechism using, I think this yesterday too. My mind went to the Bible in a year. I'm
0:37.5	using the Catechism, the ascension addition of the Catechism, which includes the foundations
0:42.2	of faith approach, but you can follow along with any recent version of the Catechism of
0:45.9	the Catholic Church. You can also download your Catechism and your reading plan by visiting
0:49.5	AscensionPress.com slash C-I-Y, and also you know you can click follow, you can click subscribe
0:55.0	and your podcast app for daily updates and daily notifications today is day 106. As
1:00.2	I said, we're reading paragraphs 753 to 757 yesterday. We talked about like the words,
1:05.4	right? Not only the source of the church being the sun and the spirit, but also how the
1:10.5	church is holy, Catholic, she's one, she's apostolic, that word Ecclesia, right? Will
1:15.4	means the call to call out of? Or Kierka or church means what belongs to the Lord? We talked
1:21.3	about how you and I belong to the Lord now. We also highlighted the three kind of like levels,
1:27.0	or three designations of the church, meaning the liturgical assembly, the local community,
1:31.7	which can be parish or diocese, and the whole universal community of believers. And those
1:36.0	three meanings are inseparable. Now today we have a little bit, it's more poetic, we'll
1:40.5	say, it's the symbols of the church. And so, throughout scripture, there's a whole
1:44.3	host, this paragraph 753 in scripture. We find a house of interrelated images and figures
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