Day 166: Introduction to Baptism (2025)

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

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🗓️ 15 June 2025

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Together, we begin the chapter on the sacraments of initiation, specifically the section on the sacrament of Baptism. Fr. Mike unpacks the different names that the Church employs when discussing Baptism, such as the “washing of regeneration and renewal” and “enlightenment.” He concludes with a reflection on the prefigurations of Baptism in the Old Covenant. Today’s readings are Catechism paragraphs 1210-1222.

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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Please note: The Catechism of the Catholic Church contains adult themes that may not be suitable for children - parental discretion is advised.

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0:00.0	Hi, my name is Father Mike Schmitz, and you're listening to the Catechism Any 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 by Ascension.
0:17.5	In 365 days, we'll read through the Catechism of the Catholic Church
0:21.3	discovering our identity and God's family as we journey together toward our heavenly home.
0:25.5	This is day 166. We're reading paragraphs 12, 10 to 1222. As always, I'm using the Ascension
0:30.7	edition of the Catechism, which includes the Foundations of Faith approach, but you can follow
0:34.0	along with any recent version of the Catechism of the Catholic Church. You can also download your own catechism in a year reading plan by visiting ascensionpress.com
0:41.7	slash C-I-Y.
0:43.0	And you can click follow or subscribe in your podcast app for daily updates and daily notifications.
0:46.8	You know that already because this is day 166.
0:49.7	You've been following along forever.
0:51.3	And now we have another corner.
0:55.2	Another corner we're turning.
0:58.3	We're going into Section 2, the seven sacraments of the church.
0:59.3	And this is incredible.
1:03.2	If you have the Foundations of Faith approach, you know, this whole thing we have through Ascension, you can see that here we are in part two, celebration of the Christian
1:08.1	mystery, the sacrament section 2, Initiation, Healing,
1:11.5	and Service. We have today launching into the seven sacraments. You know, this whole thing we've
1:16.1	been talking about for the last bunch of days has been all about what's the groundwork for the
1:20.0	liturgy, right? What's the ground? What's the groundwork for the work of the people, joining
1:24.1	in the work of God? And now we have some practicals. I mean, it's also, you know,
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