Day 128: Unique Calls to Holiness (2025)

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

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🗓️ 8 May 2025

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Summary

The Lord calls everyone to live a life of surrender, and we have been looking at the various ways God calls people to grow in holiness. Religious life includes the public profession of vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience; members of secular institutes dedicate themselves to living in the world and helping to sanctify it. We also learn that those in societies of apostolic life devote themselves to a particular apostolic purpose without religious vows. These calls to holiness are gifts to the Church and the world. Today's readings are Catechism paragraphs 925-933.

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, where we
0:09.8	encounter God's plan of sheer goodness for us, revealed in scripture and passed down through the
0:14.0	tradition of the Catholic faith. 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
0:21.2	discovering our identity and God's family as we journey together toward our heavenly home.
0:25.4	It's day 128. We're reading paragraphs 925 to 933. As always, I'm using the Ascension edition
0:30.8	of the Catechism, which includes the foundations of faith approach. But you can follow along
0:34.3	with any recent version of the Catechism of the Catholic Church. You can also download your own catechism in your reading plan by visiting Accentrumpress.com
0:41.2	slash CIY.
0:42.1	If you did, if yours looks like mine, this is the last day of this page, which is awesome.
0:46.7	It's great.
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0:51.5	Today is day 128.
0:52.6	So yesterday we talked about the arametic life,
0:54.9	right? Hermits, we talked about consecrated virgins and widows. Today we're talking about two more
0:59.3	aspects. Actually, a couple different aspects. Religious life, secular institutes and societies
1:04.6	of apostolic life. So I guess that's three things. What are those things? That's a great question,
1:08.7	Camper. Religious life is, as I understand
1:12.0	this, religious life are those communities. I mentioned them yesterday, like the Benedictans or like
1:17.4	the Franciscans or like those people who are Carmelites, like those religious communities,
1:23.2	sometimes they're of men, sometimes they're of women, but they live the evangelical councils.
1:27.3	They have a fraternal life, you know, of women, but they live the evangelical councils.
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