Day 111: The Church as the Body of Christ (2025)

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

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🗓️ 21 April 2025

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Summary

“The Church is communion with Jesus.” The Catechism shows us what it means for the Church to be considered the “body of Christ”. Fr. Mike explains how being part of the Church makes us “united in him, in his body”—more intimately connected with Jesus than even the Apostles were. Today's readings are Catechism paragraphs 787-791.

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,
0:09.3	where we encounter God's plan of shared goodness for us revealed in scripture and passed down
0:13.5	through the tradition of the Catholic faith. The Catechism in a Year is brought to you by
0:17.2	Ascension. In 365 days, we'll read through the Catechism of the Catholic
0:21.1	Church, discovering our identity and God's family. As we journey together toward our heavenly
0:25.2	home, this is day 111. It is three ones. There's something Trinitarian about that, right? There's
0:30.4	one, but there's three. Anyways, we're reading paragraphs 787 to 791. As always, I'm using the
0:35.8	Ascension edition of the Catechism, which includes the
0:38.0	foundations of faith approach, but you can follow along with any recent version of the Catechism
0:41.9	of the Catholic Church. You can also download your own catechism in a year reading plan by visiting
0:46.0	ascensionpress.com slash CIY. And lastly, you can click follow or subscribe in your podcast app for
0:51.2	your daily updates and daily notifications. Today is day 111. As I said,
0:55.7	we're reading paragraph 787 to 791 as we talked about the images of the church, which include
1:01.0	the body of Christ, the people of God, the temple of the Holy Spirit. Yesterday we talked about
1:04.9	the church as the people of God and looked at those characteristics of the people of God.
1:09.0	We noted that we are called,
1:11.1	when we're brought into that people,
1:13.3	we are made a priestly, prophetic, and royal people.
1:16.8	Today we're taking this next step
1:18.1	in another image of the church is the church as the body of Christ.
1:21.8	And this comes from paragraphs 787 to 791,
1:25.3	highlighting the fact that the church is in communion with Jesus.
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