Day 111: The Church as the Body of Christ

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

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🗓️ 21 April 2023

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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.

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0:00.0	I'm a name is Father Mike Schmitz and you're listening to the Catechism and a Year podcast,
0:09.2	where we encounter God's plan of sheer goodness for us, revealed in Scripture and passed down
0:13.5	to the tradition of the Catholic faith. The Catechism in a Year is brought to you by Ascension.
0:17.7	In 365 days, we will read through the Catechism of the Catholic Church, discovering our right
0:22.3	debt to the end God's family. As we journey together toward our heavenly home, this is day 111.
0:27.4	It is 3 ones. There's something Trinitarian about that. Right, there's one, but there's three.
0:31.3	I know it's reading paragraphs, 787 to 791. As always, I'm using the Ascension edition of the Catechism,
0:37.2	which includes the foundations of faith approach. But you can follow along with any recent version
0:41.2	of the Catechism of the Catholic Church. You can also download your own Catechism in a Year reading plan,
0:45.5	by visiting AscensionPress.com slash C-I-Y. And lastly, you can click follow or subscribe in your
0:50.4	podcast app or your daily updates. And daily notifications today is day 111. As I said,
0:55.6	we're reading paragraphs 787 to 791. As we talked about, the images of the Church, which include
1:01.1	the Body of Christ, the people of God, the Temple of the Holy Spirit. Yesterday, we talked about
1:04.8	the Church as the people of God and looked at those characteristics of the people of God. We
1:09.2	noted that we are called when we're brought into that people, we are made a priestly, prophetic,
1:15.6	and royal people. Today, we're taking this next step in another image of the Church,
1:19.9	is the Church as the Body of Christ. And this comes from paragraphs 787 to 791, highlighting the fact
1:26.0	that the Church is in communion with Jesus. You know, at last couple days, I mentioned that if Jesus
1:32.4	is the head and the Church is the body, there's got to be some kind of unity. And also not just unity,
1:37.2	there's also got to be some kind of love. If I love Christ the head, I have to love his body as well.
1:43.6	Now, what we recognize here is from the beginning, paragraph 787 says this, from the beginning,
1:50.0	Jesus associated his disciples with his own life. And he gives him a share in his mission, his joy,
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