Day 174: Summary of the Sacrament of Baptism (2025)

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

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🗓️ 23 June 2025

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

In this summary of the Church’s teachings on Baptism, the Catechism relays the heart of the sacrament. If you needed to quickly explain Baptism to someone on the street—Fr. Mike says—this would be your guide. Fr. Mike hones in on the fact that Baptism is “a grace and a gift of God that does not presuppose any human merit.” Today’s readings are paragraphs 1275-1284.

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 in a Year podcast,
0:09.4	where we encounter God's plan of sheer goodness for us, revealed in scripture, and passed down through the tradition of the Catholic faith.
0:15.1	The Catechism in a year is brought to you by ascension.
0:17.2	In 365 days, we'll read through the Catechism of the Catholic Church, discovering our identity and God's family as we journey together toward our heavenly home.
0:24.4	This is Day 174. We're reading paragraphs 1275 to 1284. As always, I'm using the Ascension
0:29.9	edition of the Catechism, which includes the foundations of faith approach, but you can follow
0:33.3	along with any recent version of the Catechism of the Catholic Church, you can also download your own catechism in your reading plan by visiting ascensionpress.com slash CIY. And lastly,
0:42.3	you can click follow or subscribe in your podcast app for daily updates and daily notification.
0:46.8	It is nugget day, you guys, in brief. As I was like reading these in briefs, these nuggets,
0:50.7	I realize that this is like always the nuggets are great, right?
0:54.2	They're always a little summary, little in brief is always a gift.
0:57.9	But today, it just struck me as being, oh, if you were going to present the sacrament of baptism to somebody,
1:03.8	these paragraphs, these bullets, these, as someone might say, these nuggets are, this is what you need,
1:09.9	1275 to 1284 are, I mean I mean it's I don't want to say
1:13.1	everything you need but it's kind of a lot there's a lot packed in to these few into these nuggets
1:18.7	and so just yeah this is a I'm thinking of those of you who are teachers sometimes it's okay
1:24.6	what do they need to know I think that if everyone knew these nuggets, then that'd be a good thing.
1:31.5	So here we are.
1:32.3	Let's launch into Nugget Day and let's pray to God our Father, Father in heaven.
1:38.5	We give you praise and glory.
1:39.6	Thank you for joy.
1:40.3	Thank you for laughter.
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