Day 155: Who Celebrates the Liturgy (2025)
The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz)
Ascension
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🗓️ 4 June 2025
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
Together, with Fr. Mike, we examine “who celebrates the liturgy.” Fr. Mike emphasizes that when we celebrate the sacraments, the whole Christ, not just the body on Earth, but also the body in Heaven, celebrates with us. The Church enables us to participate in the eternal liturgy through the sacraments, and our baptismal priesthood allows us to have full, conscious, and active participation in the liturgy. Today’s readings are Catechism paragraphs 1135-1144.
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, |
| 0:09.5 | 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 |
| 0:17.3 | Ascension. In 365 days, we'll read through the Catechism of the Catholic |
| 0:20.9 | Church discovering our identity in God's family. As we journey together toward our heavenly home, |
| 0:25.5 | this is day 155. We're reading paragraphs 1135 to 1144. I'm using the Ascension edition of |
| 0:31.1 | the Catechism, which includes the foundations of faith approach. But you can follow along with |
| 0:34.9 | any recent version of the Catechism of the Catholic Church. You can also download your own catechism in a year reading plan by visiting ascension |
| 0:40.6 | press.com and also click follow or subscribe if you want to. You don't have to if you don't want to |
| 0:44.8 | in your podcast app for daily updates or daily notifications. This is a quick thank you to all |
| 0:48.7 | those who have supported the production of this podcast with your prayers and financial gifts. We couldn't do it without you. We couldn't get today 155, that's for sure. We are in chapter two, sacramental celebration of the pascal mystery. |
| 0:58.9 | A couple things. You can hear the style of the different people, the different authors of the |
| 1:03.1 | different sections of the catechism when you're kind of reading it out loud or maybe |
| 1:06.2 | listening to it out loud. Paragraph 1135 is really good. It's kind of like, you know, you know those teachers |
| 1:11.4 | back in the day who say, okay, this is what I'm going to say. Then they say it. And then they tell |
| 1:14.9 | you what you just, what they just said. That's kind of what paragraph 1135 is all about. It's like, |
| 1:19.0 | hey, we just talked about this. what we're looking at today, primarily. |
| 1:28.2 | And the answer to who celebrates the liturgy, first of all, is, okay, well, the whole |
| 1:32.7 | Christ, right? |
| 1:33.6 | Christ the head and his whole body. |
| 1:35.7 | But the whole body doesn't just mean all of the Christians on the planet Earth. |
| 1:40.5 | It also means, maybe even primarily means, all those saints in heaven. So we're going to talk |
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