Day 192: Unity in the Eucharist (2025)

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

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🗓️ 11 July 2025

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

The sacrament of Holy Communion unites the faithful together in a most profound, visible way. It also makes disunity in the Church all the more painful and apparent. The Catechism reveals the Church’s teachings regarding the Eucharist and Christian churches who are not in full communion with the Catholic Church. Fr. Mike addresses a most common and difficult question: “If a non-Catholic believes that the Eucharist is truly Jesus, why can they not receive him in the sacrament?” Today’s readings are Catechism paragraphs 1396-1401.

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 in a Year podcast,
0:09.4	where we encounter God's plan of sheer goodness for us, revealed in scripture and passed down
0:13.5	through the tradition of the Catholic faith. The Catechism in a year is brought to you by
0:17.0	Ascension. In 365 days, we'll read through the Catechism of the Catholic Church
0:21.4	discovering our identity in God's family as we journey together toward our heavenly home.
0:25.2	This is Day 192. We're reading paragraphs 1396 to 1401. As always, I am using the Ascension
0:32.2	edition of the Catechism, which is awesome, and also includes the Foundations of Faith
0:35.6	Approach, but you can follow along with any recent version of the catechism of the Catholic Church. You can also download your own
0:40.7	catechism in your reading plan by visiting ascensionpress.com slash C-I-Y and little known fact
0:46.6	just today. This is, you know, day 192, I want to make it special, special announcement.
0:51.0	Today and today only. Can you click follow or subscribe in your podcast app for daily updates and
0:55.2	daily notifications? If you've missed today, who knows? Who knows what tomorrow will hold? I sure don't.
1:00.5	Anyways, but today is day 192 reading paragraphs 1396 to 1401. Yesterday we started talking about the
1:05.8	fruits of Holy Communion. Today we're going to continue on what are some of those fruits of
1:10.7	receiving Holy Commun communion as well as
1:13.0	what about the euchrist and the unity of Christians what about the euchrist and those who aren't
1:19.9	Roman Catholic what do we do with that what does it mean for them and what does it mean for all of us
1:26.9	we're talking about those things today,
1:28.6	continuant fruits of receiving Holy Communion as well as the Eucharist and the unity of Christians.
1:34.6	And so, you know, tackling big topics, we need God's help. Well, we need God's help always.
1:40.1	And so we approach him now, just opening our hearts to receive his voice, to hear his word,
1:45.1	and to respond to it with faith. So we pray, Father in heaven, we give you praise. We thank you.
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