Day 175: Introduction to Confirmation (2025)
The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz)
Ascension
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🗓️ 24 June 2025
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
We begin our examination of the sacrament of Confirmation. Fr. Mike emphasizes that the reception of Confirmation is necessary for the completion and strengthening of baptismal grace. He also highlights the vital importance of the reception of Confirmation because it gives us the power to be a witness to God’s grace on earth, just as the Apostles received that same power at Pentecost. Today’s readings are Catechism paragraphs 1285-1289.
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 is Father Mike Schmitz, and you're listening to the Catechism in a Year podcast, where we |
| 0:09.5 | encounter God's plan of sheer goodness for us, revealed in scripture and passed down through the |
| 0:13.8 | tradition of the Catholic faith. The Catechism in a year is brought to you by Ascension. |
| 0:17.8 | In 365 days, we'll read through the Catechism of the Catholic Church |
| 0:21.2 | discovering our identity in God's family as we journey together toward our heavenly home. |
| 0:25.2 | This is Day 175. We are reading paragraphs 1285 to 1289. 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 |
| 0:34.1 | along with any recent version of the Catechism of the Catholic Church. You can also download your own catechism in your reading plan like I have. |
| 0:40.1 | You check off those boxes every single day. |
| 0:41.8 | You can do that by visiting ascensionpress.com slash CIY. |
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| 0:52.8 | Or you just hunt every day. |
| 0:54.3 | And so many people like to hunt and gather. It's like our ancestors. And also, quick thank you |
| 0:58.0 | to all those who have supported the production of this podcast with your prayers and financial |
| 1:01.0 | gifts. We could not do this without you. We could not get to day 175 without you. And yet, |
| 1:05.6 | and yet, here we are reading paragraphs 1285 to 1289 starting a deeper dive into the sacrament of confirmation. |
| 1:12.2 | And so what we're going to hear today is not only like yesterday, like where you had Nugget |
| 1:15.7 | day, we wrapped up the gift of baptism just as best we could, of course. And we recognize that |
| 1:20.8 | we talked about the three sacraments of initiation yesterday. There's seven sacraments total. |
| 1:25.8 | The three sacraments of initiation, baptism, confirmation, and holy communion. |
| 1:29.7 | Now, this is important because it says here in paragraph 1285 that it must be explained to the faithful. |
| 1:36.5 | In fact, it says it must be explained to the faithful, that the reception of the sacrament of confirmation is necessary for the completion of baptismal grace, meaning that God wants to give you |
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