Day 173: Brothers and Sisters in Baptism (2025)
The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz)
Ascension
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🗓️ 22 June 2025
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
The Catechism shows us how Baptism unites the Church as a “People of God of the New Covenant” and goes so far as to say that “Baptism constitutes the foundation of communion among all Christians.” We all belong to Jesus, together. Fr. Mike highlights the fact that with the gift of unity in Baptism comes real responsibility. Today’s readings are Catechism paragraphs 1267-1274.
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, |
| 0:09.2 | where we encounter God's plan of sheer goodness for us, revealed in scripture, and passed |
| 0:13.7 | down through the tradition of the Catholic faith. The Catechism in New Year is brought to you by |
| 0:17.4 | Ascension. In 365 days, we'll read through the Catechism of the Catholic |
| 0:21.3 | Church discovering our identity and God's family. As we journey together toward our heavenly home, |
| 0:25.5 | this is day 173. We're reading paragraphs 1267 to 1274. As always, I'm using the Ascension |
| 0:30.9 | edition of the Catechism, which includes the Foundations of Faith approach. But you can follow |
| 0:34.8 | along with any recent version of the catechism of the Catholic |
| 0:37.5 | Church. You can also download your own catechism in a year reading plan by visiting ascensionpress.com |
| 0:42.4 | slash cI. And you can also click follow or subscribe in your podcast app for daily updates and |
| 0:47.7 | daily notifications because today is day 173. We're in paragraph 1267 to 1274. As I said, |
| 0:53.4 | we're in baptism. This is the last kind of article |
| 0:55.5 | on baptism before we have a nugget day tomorrow yesterday. We talked about the grace of baptism. |
| 1:00.5 | Like, what does it actually do? It forgives our sins. It makes us new. It brings us into |
| 1:05.1 | relationship with the Lord. You get adopted as God's sons and daughters. It makes us into a new |
| 1:09.9 | creature. Today, we recognize that we're this into a new creature today. We recognize |
| 1:11.7 | that we're incorporated into the body of Christ. We're made members of the church. We're given |
| 1:16.5 | a share in the priesthood of all believers. And also because we're given a share in the priesthood |
| 1:21.1 | to all believers, because we've been incorporated into the church, there is a sacramental bond |
| 1:25.5 | of unity among all Christians, and even those who |
| 1:28.9 | are not Catholic Christians. So if anyone is baptized, there is this common bond. We have a common |
| 1:33.3 | sonship, right, a common daughterhood, a common brotherhood and sisterhood in our baptism. Lastly, |
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