Day 121: The Apostolate (2026)

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

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🗓️ 1 May 2026

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Summary

For the Church to remain truly apostolic, she must exercise the apostolate, which is the mission “to spread the Kingdom of Christ over all the earth.” Today’s readings remind us that all members of the Church are “sent out” on a mission to proclaim the Good News. Most importantly, Fr. Mike emphasizes that charity, drawn from our unity with Christ, is the “soul” of the whole apostolate that leads us to bear fruit. Today’s readings are Catechism paragraphs 863-870.

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,
0:09.3	where we encounter God's plan of sheer goodness for us, revealed in scripture, and passed
0:13.8	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 of the Catholic Church, discovering our identity in God's family as we journey together toward our heavenly home. It is day 121. We are reading paragraphs 863 to 870. It is Nuggett Day, as well as three additional paragraphs before the Nuggets. As always, I'm using the Ascension edition of the Catechism, which includes the foundations of faith approach, but you can 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 slash CIY. And lastly, you can click follow or subscribe in your podcast app for daily updates and daily notifications. As I said, it is day 121.
0:55.3	We're reading paragraphs 863, 864, and 865. Those are the last paragraphs of this section, one holy Catholic apostolic. And then we have a couple nuggets. I don't know. We'll say five. We'll call them five. Five nuggets we got from paragraph 866 to 870. one of the things we've been talking about is how these four marks of the church,
1:13.8	one holy, Catholic, and apostolic.
1:16.0	Yesterday we talked about very, very clearly, hopefully clearly,
1:20.0	how the church must be apostolic, right,
1:22.5	based off of the mission that Jesus entrusted to the apostles,
1:26.4	and also based off the promise that Jesus entrusted to the apostles, and also based off the promise that Jesus
1:28.5	entrusted to the apostles, that he who hears you and receives you, receives me and hears me. That's
1:32.9	so important. Now, today, as we hit these last three paragraphs before the nuggets, we're talking
1:38.2	about the apostolate. And the apostolate is, I love this, first line of 863, the whole church
1:43.9	is apostolic, in that she remains,
1:46.5	through the successors of St. Peter and the other apostles, in communion of faith and life
1:50.4	with her origin, and that she is sent out into the whole world. Remember that the word
1:54.4	apostoloi means those who are sent, or emissary, right? Those were sent out. So for the church
2:00.0	to truly remain apostolic is not just to say
2:03.2	that, yes, we have a succession of, you know, bishops and popes from the apostles, but it's also to say
2:09.8	that the church exercises that being sent out in the apostolate. And what we're going to hear about
2:14.9	today is, I love this, that Jesus has to be at the
2:17.7	center of this. In fact, not only does Jesus and the Holy Spirit and the glory of the Father have to be at
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