Day 150: The Epiclesis (2025)
The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz)
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🗓️ 30 May 2025
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Summary
At the heart of the Liturgy of the Eucharist is the epiclesis, when the priest begs the Holy Spirit to come and transform the bread and wine into the Body and Blood, Soul and Divinity of Christ. The Catechism explains this mysterious reality, and Fr. Mike reiterates that the Mass is not a repetition of Christ’s once-and-for-all sacrifice, but a re-presentation and celebration of his eternal sacrifice on the Cross. Today’s readings are Catechism paragraphs 1104-1112.
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's Father Mike Schmitz, and you're listening to the Catechism in a Year podcast, |
| 0:09.4 | where we encounter God's plan of sheer goodness for us, revealed in scripture, and passed down |
| 0:13.8 | through the tradition of the Catholic faith. The Catechism in a year is brought to you by Ascension. |
| 0:17.9 | In 365 days, we'll read through the catechism of the Catholic |
| 0:21.0 | Church, discovering our identity and God's family as we journey together toward our heavenly |
| 0:25.0 | home. It is Day 150. We are reading paragraphs 1104 to 1112. As always, I am using the Ascension |
| 0:30.7 | edition of the Catechism, which includes the foundations of faith approach, but you can follow |
| 0:34.1 | along with any recent version of the Catechism of the Catholic Church. The words are all in there. |
| 0:38.2 | You can also download your own catechism into your reading plan by visiting ascensionpress.com |
| 0:42.0 | slash CIY. |
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| 0:48.5 | I know I have subscribed, so why don't you? |
| 0:51.0 | Also, a little quick thank you to all those who have supported the production |
| 0:54.1 | of this podcast with your prayers, with your financial gifts. Thank you so much. We could not do this |
| 0:58.7 | without you. It is day 150. We were reading paragraphs, as I said, 1104 to 1112. Yesterday we talked |
| 1:04.1 | about how the Holy Spirit recalls the mystery of Christ, especially here in that proclamation, |
| 1:08.1 | right, in the proclamation of the Word of God, the explanation of the word of God that elicits faith to the Word of God, right? We give that consent, we give our amen |
| 1:15.0 | and a commitment. I also talked about an an an annesis yesterday, right, the remembrance. Today we're |
| 1:19.2 | talking about epiclesis or epiclesis, I've heard it both ways, but we recognize that the Holy Spirit |
| 1:24.7 | not only recalls the mystery of Christ and tells that story and brings it to us, the Holy Spirit not only recalls the mystery of Christ and tells that story and brings it to us, |
| 1:28.7 | the Holy Spirit makes present the mystery of Christ. And this is absolutely of utmost importance. |
| 1:35.2 | In fact, I love, love paragraph 1104, where it says, the Christian liturgy not only recalls the events |
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