Day 156: How the Liturgy Is Celebrated (2025)

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

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🗓️ 5 June 2025

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

We continue to examine the celebration of the liturgy and sacraments. In the context of how the liturgy is celebrated, Fr. Mike explains that we are both body and spirit, and so signs and symbols are the way in which we communicate with and understand the world around us. God communicates spiritual realities in the same way. The signs and symbols which are utilized in the liturgy not only point to spiritual realities, but also make them present. Today’s readings are Catechism paragraphs 1145-1152.

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	I'm 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 it down
0:13.8	through the tradition of the Catholic faith. The Catechism in E. Year is brought to you by Ascension.
0:17.9	In 365 days, we'll read through the Catechism of the Catholic
0:20.9	Church discovering our identity and God's family as we journey together toward a heavenly home.
0:25.3	This is Day 156. We are reading paragraphs 1145 to 1152. As always, I'm using the
0:30.6	Ascension edition of the Catechism, which includes the Foundations of Faith approach, but you can
0:34.1	follow along with any recent version of the Catechism of the Catholic Church. You can also download your own catechism into your reading plan by visiting ascensionpress.com
0:41.5	slash CIY and you can click follow or subscribe in your podcast app for daily updates.
0:46.3	And daily notifications today is day 156.
0:49.5	We're reading paragraphs 1145 to 1152.
0:52.5	So yesterday we looked at the question of who celebrates the
0:55.5	liturgy. And we talked about the celebrants of the heavenly liturgy, right? Which is just bonkers.
1:00.0	That is amazing. It's all the angel saints, all creation, the Lord himself, God. And then also the
1:05.8	celebrants of the sacramental liturgy. So the whole community, the body of Christ united with its head, the baptismal priesthood,
1:11.0	the ministerial priesthood, united, of course, to Jesus Christ, the one great high priest.
1:15.6	Today we're looking at how is the liturgy celebrated?
1:18.4	Remember those four questions, the beginning of this chapter is, or beginning of this, yeah,
1:22.7	yeah, we'll call it a chapter.
1:23.7	Chapter two is who celebrates the liturgy?
1:26.1	That was yesterday.
1:26.9	How is the liturgy celebrated?
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