Day 194: Summary of the Sacrament of the Eucharist (2025)
The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz)
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🗓️ 13 July 2025
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Summary
The Catechism has spent considerable time unpacking Holy Communion—the “sacrament of sacraments”—with us, and now she summarizes the most essential truths that we must internalize and move forward with. Fr. Mike takes this “nugget day” to tell us that God desires to feed us. He has given us his Son so that we might be filled with him and made whole again, in unity with him for all of eternity. Today’s readings are Catechism paragraphs 1406-1419.
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's Father Mike Schmitz, and you're listening to the Catechism in Ear podcast, where we |
| 0:09.7 | encounter God's plan of sheer goodness for us, revealed in scripture, and passed down through |
| 0:14.1 | the tradition of the Catholic faith. The Catechism in a year is brought to you by ascension. |
| 0:17.7 | 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. |
| 0:25.5 | This is Day 109. We're reading paragraphs 1406 to 1419. As always, I am using the Ascension edition |
| 0:31.6 | of the Catechism, which includes a foundations of faith approach, but you can follow along |
| 0:35.2 | 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 ascensionpress.com |
| 0:41.6 | if you did. Mine, at least, I don't know, this is maybe the official one. Is this the formal one? |
| 0:46.3 | I'm not sure. But the one I have is this is the last day of this page, which is awesome. And I love clicking off those days, man. Man, who says that? Come on, bro. Lastly, |
| 0:56.3 | you can click follow or subscribe in your podcast app for daily updates and daily notifications |
| 1:00.0 | because today is day 1094. It is Nugget Day. But all the nuggets, 1406 to 1419. Are you kidding me? |
| 1:08.8 | This, as we said before, is not just nuggets. This is the whole chicken. |
| 1:12.9 | But we get to summarize, man, you get to summarize the incredible, incredible last number of |
| 1:19.6 | days where the church has just, again, expounded and expanded on what is it that we believe |
| 1:26.3 | about the Eucharist, not just what we believe about |
| 1:28.2 | the Eucharist, but who is it that we come into contact with every time, every time the mass is |
| 1:33.7 | celebrated, that sacrifice is offered, every time that Holy Communion is given, and we have |
| 1:38.1 | intimacy with Jesus. Every time we're strengthened by the Lord and how that prepares us for |
| 1:42.4 | eternal and future glory. So in order to dive in today, |
| 1:46.6 | let us pray, Father in heaven, we thank you. We thank you for the gift of your son and the Eucharist. |
| 1:51.7 | We thank you for all the gifts, all the sacraments you've given to us, all the sacraments of initiation, |
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