Day 186: The Sacrificial Memorial (2025)
The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz)
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🗓️ 5 July 2025
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
We continue our examination of the sacrament of the Eucharist. Fr. Mike emphasizes that every element of Christ’s passion, the whole thing, is one, single sacrifice, and when we celebrate the Mass, we are participating in that same sacrifice. He also reiterates that the Eucharist is both a noun and a verb. It “re-presents” the sacrifice of the Cross. Today’s readings are Catechism paragraphs 1362-1386.
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, |
| 0:09.7 | where we encounter God's plan of sheer goodness for us, revealed in scripture, and passed it down |
| 0:13.9 | through the 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 and God's family as we journey together toward our heavenly home. |
| 0:25.4 | This is Day 186. We're reading paragraphs 1362 to 1368. As always, I'm using the Ascension edition |
| 0:31.7 | of the Catechism, which includes a foundation as a faith approach, but you can follow along |
| 0:35.0 | with any recent version of the Catechism of the Catholic Church. You can also download your own catechism in a year reading plan by visiting ascentiumpress.com |
| 0:41.7 | slash C-I-Y, and you can also click also, also, right? All these things you could do, you don't have to, but you |
| 0:48.1 | could click follow or subscribe in your podcast app for daily updates and daily notifications because here we are today. Day 186, we're continuing |
| 0:56.1 | to talk about the Eucharist. And as we've mentioned, for the last few days about the sacrifice, |
| 1:01.0 | how the sacrifice, that's the sacrificial nature of the Eucharist. Today, we're talking about |
| 1:05.9 | the sacrificial memorial of Christ and of his body, the church. We're talking about both of those. |
| 1:10.1 | Actually, not just today, |
| 1:11.7 | today and tomorrow. And who knows? Maybe even the day after that. Because there is this truth. |
| 1:17.6 | We have to understand that the heart of religion, I know you might be bored of this, tired of this. |
| 1:21.9 | This might be old news for you. The heart of religion is worship and the heart of worship is |
| 1:26.0 | sacrifice. And so we recognize that at every |
| 1:29.1 | mass, the power of the Holy Spirit, working through the church, is making present the offering |
| 1:35.4 | of this unique sacrifice of Jesus Christ in the liturgy of the church, which is also his body, |
| 1:40.5 | right? The church is also the body of Christ. And so there's this remarkable synthesis |
| 1:44.9 | where not only is it Jesus, Jesus' action, right? Jesus' action back in time 2,000 years ago. That's made |
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