Day 162: Where the Liturgy Is Celebrated (2025)

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

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🗓️ 11 June 2025

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Summary

Where is the liturgy celebrated? The Catechism offers us overarching principles as well as specific details about the spaces in which the liturgy is celebrated. Fr. Mike highlights the importance of endowing dignity and respect to these physical spaces because they are sacred places of encounter with our Lord. Today’s readings are Catechism paragraphs 1179-1186.

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,
0:09.6	where we encounter God's plan of sheer goodness for us, revealed in scripture and passed down
0:13.8	through the tradition of the Catholic faith. The Catechism in a year is brought to you by Ascension.
0:17.9	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.
0:25.3	This is Day 162. We're reading paragraphs 1179 to 1186. As always, I'm using the Ascension
0:31.3	edition of the Catechism, which includes a foundation of faith approach. But you can follow along
0:35.4	with any recent version of the catechism of the Catholic
0:37.5	Church. You can also download your own catechism in a year reading plan by visiting ascensionpress.com
0:42.3	slash CIY. And you can click follow or subscribe in your podcast app for daily updates and daily
0:47.2	notifications. Today is day 162, paragraphs 1179 to 1186. Remember the four questions we asked
0:53.2	all the way back at the very
0:54.6	beginning of this section. Who celebrates the liturgy? We talked about that. How is the liturgy
0:59.2	celebrated? When is the liturgy celebrated? Now, the question is, where is the liturgy celebrated?
1:04.8	Yesterday we talked about the sanctification of time, that the liturgy of the hours is one of the
1:09.9	things that sanctifies time. And so we have
1:12.1	those times set aside. Today we're talking about the fact that actually we're not only timed
1:17.1	beings. We're also spatial beings, right? We're physical beings. And so the Lord is worshipped in
1:22.1	place, in space, as well as in time. And so we're not really talking about the theory of this.
1:27.3	We recognize that
1:28.5	the new covenant is not tied exclusively to any one place that here is God worshipped everywhere,
1:34.6	but also we worship God in churches. What should those churches look like? What are some things
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