Day 124: Teaching, Sanctifying, and Governing (2025)

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

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🗓️ 4 May 2025

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

There are three offices that belong to the episcopal college: the teaching office, the sanctifying office, and the governing office. Fr. Mike gives us an overview of the functions within these offices and clarifies the charism of infallibility in matters of faith and morals. As we learn about the authority of the episcopal college, Fr. Mike encourages us to approach the teachings of the Church with docility. Today’s readings are Catechism paragraphs 888-896.

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 sure goodness for us, revealed in scripture and passed down
0:13.7	through the tradition of the Catholic faith. The Catechism in a year is brought to you by Ascension.
0:17.7	In 365 days, we'll read through the Catechism of the Catholic Church
0:21.6	discovering our identity in God's family as we journey together toward our heavenly home.
0:25.7	This is Day 124. We're reading paragraphs 888-88 to 896. I'm using the Ascension edition
0:32.3	of the Catechism, which includes the Foundations of Faith Approach. You can follow along with
0:35.7	any recent version of the Catechism of the Catholic Church. You can also download your own catechism in a year reading plan
0:40.7	by visiting ascensionpress.com slash cI. And you can also click follow or subscribe in your
0:45.5	app, your podcast, wherever you're listening to this to sign up to, you know, follow or
0:51.1	subscribe and receive daily notifications. It's day 124. We're reading paragraphs
0:55.2	88 to 896. What we're talking about is the extension of what we've been talking about for the last
0:59.9	few days. Yesterday, the Episcopal College, remember that college of bishops, that community,
1:03.8	the communion of bishops with the pope, that they are united as successors of Peter and the
1:08.4	successors of the apostles. Now, they have a threefold office.
1:12.8	There's a threefold office that belongs to the pope and belongs to the bishops. And so what is
1:18.0	the threefold office? That is the teaching office, the sanctifying office, and the governing
1:22.1	office that the Holy Father and other bishops with him are entrusted with these three roles, essentially.
1:30.0	And these three areas of authority,
1:31.5	now always when we talk about this office,
1:33.3	when we talk about areas of authority,
1:35.2	it is always, the church always looks at this
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