Day 212: In Persona Christi

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

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🗓️ 31 July 2023

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Summary

The Catechism unpacks—by way of comparison—the “two participations in the one priesthood of Christ”: the common priesthood of all the faithful and the ministerial (or hierarchical) priesthood of the bishops and priests. Fr. Mike hones in on the ministerial priesthood as a means for Jesus to minister to his Church. His ministers act on his behalf in persona Christi Capitis: in the person of Christ, the Head. Today’s readings are Catechism paragraphs 1546-1553.

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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,
0:09.3	where we encounter God's plan of sheer goodness for us, revealed in Scripture and passed down
0:14.1	through the tradition of the Catholic faith. The Catechism in a Year is brought to you by ascension.
0:18.0	In 365 days, we'll read through the Catechism of the Catholic Church, discovering our identity
0:23.0	and God's family as we journey together toward our heavenly home this is day 212. We are reading
0:27.4	paragraphs 1546-1553 as always, I'm using the ascension edition of the Catechism, which includes
0:33.6	the foundation of the faith approach, but you can follow along with any recent version of the
0:37.1	Catechism of the Catholic Church. You can also download your own Catechism in a Year reading
0:41.2	plan by visiting ascensionpress.com slash C.I.Y. And you can click follow or subscribe
0:45.6	on your podcast app for daily updates and daily notifications because today is day 212,
0:50.8	reading paragraphs 1546-1553, continuing talking about this first of the sacraments of service.
0:57.2	And we're going to highlight this, holy orders. We're going to highlight the fact that not only,
1:01.0	like I said yesterday, there are two participations in the one priesthood of Jesus,
1:04.5	right? There's the kingdom priesthood, baptismal priesthood, the community of believers,
1:08.5	there's also this ministerial or hierarchical priesthood of bishops and priests. And so we're
1:13.0	going to talk about that distinction, but also there's a unique claim that's made about the
1:18.0	ministerial priests and that they act in persona Christi capatis, which is in the person of Christ
1:24.4	the head, right? So we're going to talk about what it is for the priest to be an icon of Christ
1:29.5	in some ways, right? What it is for the priest to be a servant. And that's the whole point
1:34.3	that the entire point of the priesthood is at the service of the kingdom priesthood, right? So the
1:40.8	whole meaning of the impetus, the the drive, the goal of the ministerial priesthood is to help
1:47.6	the baptismal priesthood, the whole goal of being a priest and the new covenant is to be at the
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