Hi, my name is 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 down through the tradition of the Catholic faith.

The Catechism in a year is brought to you by 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 to our heavenly home.

This is Day 170.

You guys, we're chipping away.

We're reading paragraphs 1246 through 1252.

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We couldn't do this without you because it's day 170. Here we go. Today we're talking about who can receive baptism. And we're talking about two groups of people. One is baptism of adults.

The other is baptism of infants. And so this is going to be kind of recognized. Actually, the church is really clear that one paragraph 1246 is only one sentence long.

And I'm going to give it away right now. In answer to the question who can receive baptism, the answer the church gives in paragraph 1246, every person not yet baptized, and only such a person is able to

be baptized, right? So who can receive baptism? Someone unbaptized. There it is. That is the really

brief answer. But in that, we have kind of two groups. is adults the other is infants we're going to talk about both of

those groups because one group the adults right there's a catacuminate a formation of of adults as they

receive that gift of faith and receive that gift of baptism and the other is baptism of infants which

goes back to the very beginnings of the church we're going to talk about both of those things

today before we do that,

let us launch into the Father's heart by just calling upon our Lord Jesus and asking for the

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