Day 117: The Church Is Catholic (2025)

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

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🗓️ 27 April 2025

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

We continue our examination of the four marks of the Church with today’s mark: catholic. Fr. Mike explains that “catholic” means that the Church is universal in two senses. The first is that Christ is fully present in her, and so receives the fullness of the means of salvation. Second, it goes out to all peoples; everyone belongs. Today’s readings from the Catechism are paragraphs 830-838.

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 a Year podcast,
0:09.2	where we encounter God's plan of sheer goodness for us, revealed in scripture and passed
0:13.4	down through the tradition of the Catholic faith.
0:15.6	The Catechism in a Year is brought to you by Ascension.
0:17.8	In 365 days, we will read through the Catechism of the Catholic Church, discovering our identity at God's family as we journey together towards our heavenly
0:24.8	home. It is Day 117. We're reading paragraphs 830 to 838. I am using the, as always,
0:31.1	Ascension edition of the Catechism, which includes the Foundations of Faith approach. Of course,
0:34.7	you can follow along with any recent version of the catechism of the Catholic Church. You can also download your free catechism in a year reading
0:40.9	plan by visiting ascensionpress.com slash CIY. And also you can click follow or subscribe
0:45.8	in your podcast app for daily updates and daily notifications. Today, day 117, we're going to
0:50.6	starting at paragraph 830 to 838. We're going to talk about the fact that yesterday was the church is holy two days before.
0:57.0	The church is one.
0:58.2	And today we're talking about the fact that the church is Catholic.
1:00.0	Remember these four marks of the church.
1:02.4	One holy Catholic coming in a couple days, apostolic.
1:06.1	But today, the church is Catholic.
1:08.1	So the question is, what does Catholic mean?
1:10.1	So the very first paragraph, 830, says the word Catholic. So the question is, what does Catholic mean? So the very first paragraph,
1:11.7	830, says the word Catholic means universal in the sense of according to the totality or in keeping
1:17.5	with the whole. So, and then it goes on to say, okay, so what's that universality mean? Well,
1:22.5	how is the church Catholic? And there's two ways. First, the church is Catholic because Christ is present in her.
1:28.1	So it is the fullness of the means she received from Jesus, the fullness of the means
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