Hi, my name's Father Mike Schmitz, and you're listening to the Catechism in a Year podcast,

where we encounter God's plan of sheer goodness for us, revealed in scripture, and passed it down

through the tradition of the Catholic faith. The Catechism in Ear is brought to you by Ascension.

In 365 days, we'll read through the Catechism of the Catholic

Church discovering our identity in God's family. As we journeyed together toward our heavenly home,

this is day 168. We are reading paragraphs 1229 to 1233. As always, I'm using the Ascension edition

of the Catechism, which includes the Foundations of Faith Approach, but you can follow along

with any recent version of the Catechism of the Catholic Church. You can also follow along by downloading your own

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I don't know if you know this. The little known fact that people can click follow or subscribe

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I say 168, you know, we've been talking about baptism and the question today, leading into

this whole new section is how is the sacrament of baptism celebrated? And we're talking today

specifically about Christian initiation, meaning like how have people been initiated into the Catholic

Church? How have people been initiated into Christianity?

And so we're going to go all the way back to the very beginning and talk about how did the

church originally bring people in and also how that's developed over the course of,

you know, roughly 2,000 years until we have the right of Christian initiation for adults

that we have now.

Also, what do you do when

you baptize kids? Like, how do you bring them? How do you initiate them? Because baptism is initiation,

but it's not the only part of initiation. There's other aspects of initiation. So we're looking at

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