Day 157: God’s Word and Sacred Music (2025)

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

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🗓️ 6 June 2025

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

Fr. Mike examines the words, actions, music, and singing involved in how we celebrate the Liturgy. He discusses how, at many Masses, there are signs that accompany the Word of God to emphasize the importance of the Word being proclaimed. He further explains that sacred music is a combination of music and words drawn chiefly from Sacred Scripture. When we sing during the Liturgy, we are making art out of God’s Word, itself, and that art forms a necessary part of the Liturgy. Today’s readings are Catechism paragraphs 1153-1158.

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,
0:09.2	where we encounter God's plan of sheer goodness for us, revealed in scripture and passed down
0:14.0	through the tradition of the Catholic faith. The Gatechism in a year is brought to you by
0:17.5	Ascension. In 365 days, we'll read through the Catechism of the Catholic Church,
0:21.7	discovering our identity in God's families.
0:23.6	We journey together toward our heavenly home.
0:25.5	This is Day 157.
0:26.9	We're reading paragraphs 1153 to 1158.
0:29.9	As always, I'm using the Ascension edition of the Catechism,
0:32.1	which includes the foundations of faith approach,
0:33.5	but you can 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
0:41.2	slash CIY. And lastly, you can click follow or subscribe in your podcast app for daily updates
0:45.7	and daily notifications. This day is day 157. We were reading paragraphs 1153 to 1158.
0:51.3	Talking about two different things yesterday. We launched and even more deeply into
0:54.9	how is the liturgy celebrated. Remember the day before? Who celebrates the liturgy? Beautiful.
0:59.6	Incredible. Yesterday, how is the liturgy celebrated? Continuing. Yesterday, we talked about signs and symbols,
1:05.2	right? That way of we communicate through signs and symbols. That's how God communicates to us
1:09.3	in signs and symbols. The next two
1:12.0	signs and symbols we're talking about are words and actions and singing and music. So today we have
1:17.3	three paragraphs on each, three paragraphs on words and actions that we basically, here is God
1:22.3	speaking to us through sacred scripture, right, and speaking to us through the liturgical word
1:26.7	and action.
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