Day 154: Sacraments of Eternal Life (2025)
The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz)
Ascension
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🗓️ 3 June 2025
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Summary
We’ve seen how the sacraments re-present what Christ worked for us in his Passion and death, but the Catechism also explains to us how the sacraments prefigure our eternal inheritance in heaven. Fr. Mike uses this “nugget day” as an opportunity to ensure we understand what the sacraments are and what they’re for. Today’s readings are Catechism paragraphs 1130-1134.
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 |
| 0:13.4 | down through the tradition of the Catholic faith. The Catechism in a year is brought to you by |
| 0:17.2 | Ascension. In 365 days, we'll read through the Catechism of the Catholic Church |
| 0:21.3 | discovering our identity in God's family as we journey together toward our heavenly home. This is day 154. |
| 0:27.0 | We're reading paragraphs 1130 to 1134. There's some nuggets buried in there at the end of the day today. |
| 0:32.9 | As always, I'm using the Ascension edition of the Catechism, which includes the foundations of faith approach, but you can follow along with any recent version of the Catechism of the Catholic Church. |
| 0:40.4 | You can also download your own catechism in a year reading plan by visiting ascensionpress.com |
| 0:44.7 | slash C-I-Y. |
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| 0:52.6 | It is day 154. |
| 0:53.9 | We were reading paragraphs 1130 to 1134. |
| 0:56.7 | Actually, it's just one paragraph and then four little nuggets at the end here. And so we're |
| 1:01.0 | coming to the conclusion, well, the conclusion of kind of an introduction, basically, the conclusion |
| 1:05.8 | of chapter one, the mystery. We're talking about, you know, yesterday we talked about how these |
| 1:09.8 | are sacraments of salvation, that they're efficacious, right? They're powerful, that they act by the very |
| 1:14.0 | act of the action, right, by the very work of the work, work, worked, and also that they're |
| 1:19.0 | necessary for salvation. Today, we're talking about the fact that these are the sacraments of |
| 1:23.3 | eternal life. So they bring heaven to earth right now, but they also are fulfilled in the kingdom |
| 1:30.3 | of God. They're also fulfilled in eternity. And so there's this remarkable way in which the sacraments, |
| 1:36.4 | again, we say this when it comes to the mass, where heaven and earth kiss, where time and eternity |
| 1:41.8 | touch. And so that's what we experience now. We experience that right now. Whenever we encounter our Lord in the Mass, we're time and eternity touch. And so that's what we experience now. We experience that right now |
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