Day 125: Vocation of the Laity (2025)

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

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🗓️ 5 May 2025

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Summary

The term "laity" refers to all the faithful, except those in Holy Orders and those who belong to a religious state approved by the Church. We learn about the special vocation lay people have to seek the Kingdom of God as they engage in temporal affairs. They live in the world and bring the Gospel to places priests and religious cannot access. Father Mike explains that in this way, the lay faithful not only participate in the Church but are the Church. The laity participate in Christ's priestly vocation by making every part of their lives an offering to God. Today's readings are Catechism paragraphs 897-903.

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
0:13.7	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
0:21.2	Catholic Church discovering our identity in God's family as we journey together toward our
0:25.2	heavenly home. It is Day 125. We are reading paragraphs 897 to 903. As always, I'm using the
0:30.8	Ascension edition of the Catechism, which includes the foundations of faith approach, but you can
0:34.7	follow along with any recent version of the Catechism with the Catholic Church. You can also download your own catechism in a year reading plan by visiting ascensionpress.com
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0:57.9	So good. As I said, it's day 125. Paragraphs 897 to 903 yesterday. And the day before, we talked
1:03.7	about the episcopacy, right? We talked about the bishops. We talked about the holy father.
1:07.4	We talked about the sanctifying office of the church, the of the bishops,
1:11.1	the teaching office of the bishops, and the governing office of the bishops today.
1:14.6	We get to talk about the lay faithful, which is a grace today and tomorrow.
1:18.5	The third day, we'll talk about consecrated life.
1:20.7	But today we get to talk about the laity.
1:22.3	So what is the laity?
1:23.7	Paragraph 897 says the term laity is here understood to mean all the faithful, except those in
1:29.5	holy orders, right?
1:30.3	So bishops and priests, deacons, and those who belong to a religious state approved by the church.
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