Day 122: Christ’s Faithful (2025)
The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz)
Ascension
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🗓️ 2 May 2025
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Summary
There are three primary roles among Christ’s faithful: the hierarchy, the laity, and consecrated life. Fr. Mike explains the difference between these three roles, emphasizing that they are equal in dignity but different in the way they support the Church’s mission. We also learn that all of Christ’s faithful share in the priestly, prophetical, and kingly office of Christ. Lastly, Fr. Mike reviews the mission and characters of ecclesial ministry. Today’s readings are Catechism paragraphs 871-879.
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 it down |
| 0:13.9 | through the tradition of the Catholic faith. The Catechism in a Year is brought to you by |
| 0:17.4 | Ascension. In 365 days, we'll read through the Catechism of the Catholic |
| 0:21.3 | Church, discovering our identity in God's family as we journey together toward our heavenly home. |
| 0:25.8 | This is Day 122. We're reading paragraphs 871 to 879. I'm using the Ascension edition of the |
| 0:34.0 | 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 |
| 0:41.1 | own catechism in a year reading plan by visiting ascensionpress.com slash cI. And I don't know if |
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| 0:54.6 | today is day 122 as I noted we're reading paragraphs 871 to 879 we're talking about |
| 1:01.1 | Christ's faithful so remember as we're talking about the church there's what makes up the church |
| 1:05.6 | what makes up the body of Christ well there's a structure there and there's certain roles |
| 1:09.6 | within the church and we're going to talk about those for the next few days but here the paragraph four it's called |
| 1:14.7 | we're looking at Christ's faithful hierarchy laity and consecrated life so kind of these these three |
| 1:20.7 | elements or three aspects the hierarchy the laity and the consecrated life those are the first basically |
| 1:26.2 | three paragraphs here, |
| 1:28.1 | 871 to 873. And then we'll look at this, the hierarchical constitution of the church, |
| 1:33.5 | asking the question, why the ecclesial ministry? So ecclesial meaning church, right? Why is their |
| 1:39.1 | ministry in the church? Why is it like this? Hierarchy, simply meaning, well, actually, |
| 1:43.5 | the etymology of hierarchy is sacred rule |
| 1:45.9 | or sacred ruler. And so it simply means here's the order, right? Here is the thing that gets |
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