Day 130: The Communion of Saints (2025)
The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz)
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🗓️ 10 May 2025
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Summary
The Catechism begins Paragraph 5 and dives into the communion of saints. This communion is “in holy things (sancta)” and “among holy persons (sancti).” Fr. Mike emphasizes that “the least of our acts done in charity redounds to the profit of all.” At the same time, every sin hurts every single member of the Church. No one is an island—we belong to each other. Today’s readings are Catechism paragraphs 946-953.
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 sheer goodness for us, revealed in scripture, and passed down |
| 0:13.6 | through the tradition of the Catholic faith. The Catechism in a year is brought to you by |
| 0:16.9 | Ascension. In 365 days, we'll read through the Catechism of the Catholic Church |
| 0:21.0 | discovering our identity in God's family as we journeyed together to our heavenly home. |
| 0:25.1 | This is Day 130, reading paragraphs 946 to 953. As always, I'm using the Ascension edition |
| 0:30.9 | of the Catechism, which includes the foundations of faith approach, but you can follow along |
| 0:34.2 | 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 |
| 0:40.7 | if you did, you'd know that we're on a new sheet, right? |
| 0:44.3 | I think day 1.30 is the second little thing to check off the list. |
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| 0:51.8 | One note, just a thank you to all those who have supported the production of this podcast with your prayers. Oh my gosh, absolutely necessary. |
| 0:58.4 | In your financial gifts, we could not do this without you. As I said, it's day 130. |
| 1:02.0 | Kind of a big deal. You know, in the intro we say, discover our identity in God's family |
| 1:06.4 | as we journey together toward heavenly home home today we're reading paragraph five well you know |
| 1:11.5 | you know what i mean by when i say paragraph five the communion of saints and so we're going to get to |
| 1:15.3 | talk about for the next couple of days this reality of what is the church in this in this mysterious |
| 1:21.0 | ah you know we talked about the church is the body of christ which is the family of god the churches |
| 1:25.6 | all these things but here's the communion of saints. |
| 1:28.7 | And there's this something so powerful. In fact, in paragraph 946, it says, after confessing the |
| 1:33.9 | Holy Catholic Church, the Apostles' Creed adds the phrase, the communion of saints. In a certain sense, |
| 1:39.6 | this article is a further explanation of the preceding. And here's the question, What is the church, if not the assembly of all the saints? |
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