Day 112: The Church Is the Bride (2025)

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

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🗓️ 22 April 2025

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Summary

Christ is the head of the Church. The Catechism describes Jesus’ relationship to his Church as “a personal relationship…expressed by the image of bridegroom and bride.” Fr. Mike points out how important this is by reminding us that, underneath all of the doctrine and the dogma, God is madly in love with you. If we always remember this love, everything else will fall into place. Today's readings are Catechism paragraphs 792-796.

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	I'm my name's Father Mike Schmitz, and you're listening to the Catechism in a Year podcast, where we encounter God's plan of sheer goodness for us, revealed in Scripture, and passed it down through the tradition of the Catholic faith.
0:15.5	The Catechism in a year is brought to you by 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.
0:25.4	This is Day 112. We're reading paragraphs 792 to 796. As always, I'm reading from the
0:30.7	Ascension edition of the Catechism, which includes the foundations of faith approach, but you can
0:34.4	follow along with any recent version of the Catechism of the Catholic Church. You can also download your own catechism in a year reading plan by visiting ascensionpress.com
0:41.7	slash CIY. And lastly, you can click follow or subscribe in your podcast app for daily updates
0:46.5	and daily notifications. Today is day 112. We're reading paragraphs 792, 796. Yesterday we talked about how the church essentially is one body. The church is the
0:55.8	body of Christ. And today, we're going to continue to talk about that, how Christ is the head of
1:00.2	this body. Yesterday, we ended by talking about how all believers are united, that even though we're
1:05.0	diverse, even though the Holy Spirit's gifts are diverse, since the Holy Spirit is one, therefore
1:09.8	the church is one. Now, today we're
1:11.7	emphasizing even more powerfully, I guess, that Christ is the head of this body. And that's so,
1:17.2	so important because he unites us with him in his Passover. That's paragraph 793. Christ provides
1:23.9	for our growth, right? So the head provides for the growth of the body, and that's 794.
1:28.1	And then also in paragraph 795, Christ and his church make up the whole Christ. And that's
1:33.6	something really, really important to recognize that, yes, the head, that's truly Jesus. And the body,
1:39.3	that's truly Christ, of course. But there's this reality that the most profound depths of who or what, essentially,
1:47.9	the body of Christ is, is head and body united. That's the whole Christ. In fact, in paragraph 795,
1:54.1	we're going to have a number of different quotes from different saints. We have a quote from
1:56.9	St. Augustine and a quote from Pope St. Gregory the Great, as well as a quote from St. Thomas Aquinas, and a quote from St. Joan of and a quote from Pope St. Gregory the Great as well as a quote from
2:00.9	St. Thomas Aquinas and a quote from St. Joan of Arc. So paragraph 795, we'll have a bunch of
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