Day 169: The Mystagogy of Baptism (2025)

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

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🗓️ 17 May 2025

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Summary

Together with Fr. Mike, we continue our examination of the sacrament of Baptism, specifically the mystagogy of the rite of Baptism. The Catechism explains each and every element of the Baptismal rite, from the Sign of the Cross to the baptismal water. Fr. Mike concludes with a reflection on Baptism as the beginning of our sacramental journey and how we are called to walk as children of God throughout our lives after our Baptism. Today’s readings are Catechism paragraphs 1234-1245.

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'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 it down
0:14.2	through the tradition of the Catholic faith. The Catechism in Ear is brought to you by Ascension.
0:18.0	In 365 days, we'll read through the Catechism of the Catholic
0:21.2	Church discovering our identity in God's family. As we journeyed together toward our heavenly home,
0:26.0	this is day 168. We are reading paragraphs 1229 to 1233. As always, I'm using the Ascension edition
0:32.3	of the Catechism, which includes the Foundations of Faith Approach, but you can follow along
0:36.0	with any recent version of the Catechism of the Catholic Church. You can also follow along by downloading your own
0:40.4	catechism in a year breeding plan by visiting ascenturepress.com slash cIY. Wow. You can also,
0:46.4	I don't know if you know this. The little known fact that people can click follow or subscribe
0:50.0	on your podcast app for daily updates and daily notifications because today,
0:53.7	I say 168, you know, we've been talking about baptism and the question today, leading into
0:58.8	this whole new section is how is the sacrament of baptism celebrated? And we're talking today
1:03.6	specifically about Christian initiation, meaning like how have people been initiated into the Catholic
1:09.4	Church? How have people been initiated into Christianity?
1:12.4	And so we're going to go all the way back to the very beginning and talk about how did the
1:15.6	church originally bring people in and also how that's developed over the course of,
1:20.7	you know, roughly 2,000 years until we have the right of Christian initiation for adults
1:25.9	that we have now.
1:26.8	Also, what do you do when
1:28.6	you baptize kids? Like, how do you bring them? How do you initiate them? Because baptism is initiation,
1:34.4	but it's not the only part of initiation. There's other aspects of initiation. So we're looking at
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