Day 177: The Celebration of Confirmation (2024)

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

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🗓️ 25 June 2024

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

We continue our examination of the sacrament of Confirmation, specifically the celebration and effects of the sacrament of Confirmation. Fr. Mike explores the different elements of the rite of Confirmation and the ways in which Confirmation increases and deepens our baptismal graces. He emphasizes, in particular, the special strength of the Holy Spirit that we receive to spread and defend the Faith by our words and actions. Today’s readings are Catechism paragraphs 1297-1305.

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
0:08.2	and your podcast where we encounter God's plan of sheer goodness for us
0:11.5	revealed in scripture and passed down through the tradition of the Catholic faith.
0:14.9	The Catechism here is brought to you by Ascension in 365 days.
0:18.2	We'll read through the Catechism of the Catholic Church,
0:20.1	discovering our identity and God's families we journey together toward our heavenly home.
0:23.3	This is day 177. We're reading paragraphs 1297 to 1305 as always I'm using the
0:28.7	Ascension Edition of the Catechism which includes a foundation of the faith approach, but you can follow
0:32.4	along with any recent version of the Catechism
0:34.2	of the Catholic Church.
0:34.9	You can also download your own Catechism
0:36.6	in a year reading plan by visiting Accentrum Press.
0:38.8	com slash DIY, and you can click follow or subscribe in your
0:41.6	podcast app for daily updates and daily notifications today.
0:44.3	Is Day 177, we're reading paragraphs 1297 to 1305. We're continuing on talking about the
0:49.5	celebration of confirmation. So yesterday, we mentioned the anointing, right? And of course the anointing oil so the sacred chrism but we're we're
0:56.8	going to talk today a little bit about the consecration of the sacred chrism so
0:59.5	there's there's oil and there's oil right there's oil that you just use for whatever we talked about you
1:04.4	all those meanings and the symbolism yesterday there's also oil back gets consecrated oil
1:08.8	that gets set apart and it's the Bishop when the course of the chrism mass on Holy Thursday or in our diocese,
1:14.1	you know we do it on a Monday we celebrate our chrism mass on a different day of the week because
1:17.8	we're kind of all over the place in our diocese and so meaning geographically and so we have that chrism mass earlier on in Holy
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