Day 164: Liturgical Diversity and Unity (2025)
The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz)
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🗓️ 13 June 2025
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Summary
Did you know there is more than one liturgical rite in the Catholic Church? Fr. Mike reviews the different liturgical Traditions that are part of the Catholic Church. All of the different rites are rooted in the same mission of Christ, reminding us that the diversity of liturgical Traditions does not take away from the unity of the Faith. Today’s readings are Catechism paragraphs 1200-1203.
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's 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 |
| 0:13.9 | through the tradition of the Catholic faith. The Catechism in a Year is brought to you by |
| 0:17.1 | Ascension. In 365 days, we'll read through the Catechism of the Catholic Church, discovering our identity and God's family as we journey together toward our heavenly |
| 0:25.1 | home. This is Day 164. We are reading three or four paragraphs 1,200 to 1203. As always, I'm |
| 0:31.0 | using the Ascension edition of the Catechism, which includes a foundations of faith approach, |
| 0:34.4 | but you can follow along with any recent version of the catechism of the Catholic Church. You can also download your own catechism in a year reading plan |
| 0:40.8 | by visiting ascensionpress.com slash CIY. And lastly, you can click follow or subscribe in your |
| 0:46.2 | podcast app for daily updates and daily notifications because today is day 164. As I said, |
| 0:51.3 | yesterday I said this. We have an article broken into two pieces. Article two, |
| 0:55.0 | Liturgical Diversity and the Unity of the Mystery. So there are a number of liturgical traditions |
| 1:00.4 | in the church. What do we mean by this? Okay. Well, here most people probably listening to this |
| 1:07.0 | podcast are in the West, right? We belong to the Latin right of the Roman Catholic Church. |
| 1:11.6 | But there are a number of other rights in the Roman Catholic Church. And we're going to talk about |
| 1:16.0 | those today. There is liturgical diversity there. At the same time, there's this incredible |
| 1:20.6 | and beautiful unity or Catholicity. And that's what we're going to talk about today and tomorrow. |
| 1:26.5 | Tomorrow is more on liturgy and culture. But today we're talking about liturgical traditions in the Catholicity, right? |
| 1:32.1 | The universality, the unity of the church. So as we launch into today, let's call upon the Lord God |
| 1:37.9 | who is one and is Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. We pray. God in heaven, we love you and we thank you. We thank you for the way in |
| 1:46.4 | which you have brought about a unity and a diversity, variety and a Catholicity, universality. Lord God, |
| 1:53.8 | you have given us, this cosmic world, right? This world that is so diverse and yet is one world. |
| 2:00.8 | You've given us this church that is so diverse and yet is one world. You've given us this church that is so diverse and yet is one church. |
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