Day 114: The Church Is One (2025)

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

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🗓️ 24 April 2025

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

In this new paragraph—"The Church is One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic”—the Catechism explains how and why the Church is “One”. Fr. Mike highlights the many manifestations of the good that Jesus works through the Church, and he also urges us to cling to the “visible bonds of unity” that Christ offers us. Today’s readings are Catechism paragraphs 811-816.

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	I'm 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 sure goodness for us, revealed in scripture, and passed
0:13.7	down through the tradition of the Catholic faith. The Catechism in a year is brought to you by
0:17.5	Ascension. In 365 days, we'll read through the Catechism
0:21.0	of the Catholic Church, discovering our identity and God's family as we journey together
0:25.3	toward our heavenly home. This is Day 114. We're reading paragraphs 811 through 816. As always,
0:31.8	I'm using the Ascension edition of the Catechism, which includes the Foundations of Faith
0:35.0	Approach, but you can follow along with any recent version of the catechism of the Catholic Church.
0:38.9	You can also download your own catechism in your reading plan by visiting ascenturepress.com slash CIY.
0:44.8	And lastly, you can click follow or subscribe in your podcast app to get daily updates and daily notifications.
0:50.8	It's day 114.
0:53.2	I'm reading paragraphs 811 through 816. Okay, here we go. This is, it's a new paragraph.
1:00.5	And we're going to talk about these four, what they call the four marks of the church.
1:04.2	The church is one, holy, Catholic, and apostolic. So today we're going to break down that first, well, for the next
1:10.9	couple days, really, we're going to break down what is it to say that the church is one.
1:15.1	And yet we have to understand that for the next couple days, actually you don't have to
1:18.9	understand. If you choose not to, that's fine. I would like you to understand that the church
1:24.0	would like us to understand that there are these, again, these four marks of the church
1:28.5	that make, I don't say make the church the church, but they reveal that the church truly is
1:34.0	what she claims to be. The church is one, holy, Catholic, and apostolic. We're going to hear
1:40.4	traces of all four of those today, but the highlight or the kind of the focus is the fact that the church is one.
1:46.8	And of course, the church is one because of the source of the church.
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