Day 151: The Seven Sacraments (2025)

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

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🗓️ 31 May 2025

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Summary

The Catechism introduces the seven sacraments that Christ offers the Church: Baptism, Confirmation, Eucharist, Reconciliation, Anointing of the Sick, Holy Orders, and Matrimony. The Catechism highlights the fact that the sacraments are “by the Church” because the Church is “Christ’s action at work”, and they are “for the Church” because they “manifest and communicate to men…the mystery of communion with the God who is love.” Fr. Mike focuses on the fact that while ministerial priests administer many of the sacraments, their priesthood is at the service of the baptismal priesthood, into which all of the baptized are ordained. Today’s readings are from Catechism paragraphs 1113-1121.

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 Eir podcast, where we
0:09.6	encounter God's plan of sheer goodness for us, revealed in scripture, and passed down through
0:14.1	the tradition of the Catholic faith. The Catechism in Ears brought to you by Ascension.
0:17.9	In 365 days, we'll read through the Catechism of the Catholic
0:21.2	Church discovering our identity in God's family as we journey together toward our heavenly home.
0:25.6	This is Day 151. Rereading paragraphs 1113 to 1121. As always, I'm using the Ascension edition
0:31.5	of the Catechism, which includes the Foundations of Faith approach, but you can follow along
0:35.0	with any recent version of the Catechism of the Catholic Church. You can also download your own catechism in your reading plan by visiting ascensionpress.com
0:42.2	slash CIY, and you can click follow or subscribe in your podcast app for daily updates and daily
0:47.3	notifications. Today is day 151. As I said, we're reading paragraphs 1113 to 1121.
0:52.4	We're on Article 2, the pascal mystery in the church's sacraments.
0:55.6	What does that mean?
0:56.4	Great question, Camper.
0:57.5	What that means is it means that we're going to highlight today, there are seven sacraments.
1:02.5	They're the sacraments of Christ.
1:04.4	What it means is that these sacraments were all instituted by Jesus Christ, our Lord.
1:08.3	So they're the sacraments of Christ. And they flow out of the work,
1:12.8	the action, the saving words of Jesus Christ. They're the powers that come forth from the body of
1:18.5	Christ and their actions of the Holy Spirit at work in his body. So they're the sacraments of Jesus.
1:23.3	Right. He instituted them. Now, they're also the sacraments of the church.
1:28.0	And so over the course of many, many years,
1:29.8	the church has come to a better understanding of,
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