Day 180: The Source and Summit (2024)
The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz)
Ascension
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🗓️ 28 June 2024
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
The Eucharist is “the source and summit of the Christian life.” Today, we begin our journey into the mystery of the Eucharist. Fr. Mike emphasizes that the Eucharist is particularly unique in relation to the other sacraments because it unites us to the heavenly liturgy and draws us into communion with God. Today’s readings are Catechism paragraphs 1322-1327.
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 |
| 0:08.3 | into your podcast where we encounter God's plan of sure goodness for us |
| 0:11.6 | revealed in scripture and passed down through |
| 0:13.7 | the tradition of the Catholic faith. The Catechism in the years brought to you by |
| 0:16.9 | ascension. In 365 days we'll read through the Catechism of the Catholic |
| 0:20.6 | Church discovering our identity in God's family as we journey |
| 0:23.4 | together toward our heavenly home. This is day 180. We are reading paragraphs 1322 to |
| 0:27.8 | 1327. As always I'm using the Ascension Edition of the Catholicism which includes |
| 0:31.6 | the Foundations of Faith approach, but you can follow along with any recent version of the Catechism which includes a foundation's a faith approach, but you can follow along with any recent version of the |
| 0:35.0 | Catechism of the Catholic Church. You can also download your own Catechism in a year reading plan by |
| 0:39.2 | visiting ascension press.com slash C IY and lastly you can click follow or subscribe in your podcast app for daily updates and daily notifications. |
| 0:46.0 | Today is day 180. |
| 0:48.0 | Just a quick thank you to all those who have supported the production of this podcast. |
| 0:51.2 | Thank you for the prayers. And I ask people to pray every day for me |
| 0:54.3 | but also for everybody who's part of this thank you so much and also for your |
| 0:57.4 | financial gifts we couldn't do this without you. Super grateful today we're |
| 1:01.2 | also grateful because we're taking the next step. We've talked about baptism, |
| 1:04.1 | we've talked about confirmation. Today we're talking about the Holy Eucharist, which is the source, and the summit of all |
| 1:09.5 | grace. And what an incredible way to take this next step on day 180 |
| 1:13.7 | and to launch into this incredible mystery |
| 1:17.6 | of the Holy Eucharist. |
| 1:19.0 | And so as we do that, let's just say a prayer, |
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