Day 116: The Church Is Holy (2025)

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

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🗓️ 26 April 2025

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

Fr. Mike examines the next characteristic of the Church, the Church is holy, and he emphasizes two important ideas. The first is that the Church is unfailingly holy only because of God’s gracious gift to us. The second is that each and every one of the activities of the Church are for two purposes: the sanctification of men in Christ and the glorification of God. We conclude with a reminder from St. Therese on the importance of charity, that love of God is the “vocation which includes all others.” Today’s readings from the Catechism are paragraphs 823-829.

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	Hi, my name is Father Mike Schmitz, and you're listening to the Catechism in the Year podcast,
0:09.3	where we encounter God's plan of sheer goodness for us, revealed in scripture, and passed it down
0:13.7	through the tradition of the Catholic faith. The Catechism in the year is brought to you by
0:16.9	Ascension. In 365 days, we'll read through the Catechism of the Catholic Church
0:21.2	discovering our identity in God's family as we journey together toward our heavenly home.
0:25.4	This is Day 116. We're reading paragraphs 823 to 829. As always, I'm using the Ascension
0:30.4	edition of the Catechism, which includes the foundations of faith approach. You can follow along,
0:35.0	of course, 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 and daily
0:47.3	notifications. Today, day 116, we're reading about the fact that the church is holy.
0:51.5	Yesterday we talked about oneness. In the day before that, too, yesterday was also the wounds to unity, but the call we have to strive for unity. Today,
0:59.7	the second mark of the church, remember the four marks of the church, one, holy, Catholic,
1:04.2	apostolic. These are these four marks of the church. Today, the church is holy and tomorrow,
1:09.1	the church is Catholic. But today, we have to recognize, you know, maybe I've even said this yesterday, many, many
1:15.4	times we'll point out the fact that, yep, the church is broken, church is made up of sinners.
1:20.5	And so there is, you know, there's sin.
1:22.8	At the same time, one of the clear marks of the church is the fact that the church is holy. The Holy Spirit is the
1:29.5	soul of the church. And because of that, because the church comes from the Trinity, the heart of the
1:33.8	Trinity, because Jesus Christ himself founded the church. The church is holy. In fact, paragraph 823 will kick us off
1:40.0	today. And it says this. The church is held as a matter of faith to be unfailingly holy and that's
1:46.8	really important that's a bold statement but at the same time it is 100% a true statement why it goes
1:51.9	on to say this is because Christ the son of God who with the father and the spirit is held as
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