Day 213: Bishops and the Episcopacy (2025)

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

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🗓️ 1 August 2025

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Summary

There are three degrees within the sacrament of Holy Orders: the episcopacy (bishops), the presbyterate (priests), and the diaconate (deacons). The Catechism begins unpacking ordination with the bishops. Fr. Mike speaks on the special role that bishops play in the life of the Church. Today’s readings are from Catechism paragraphs 1554-1561.

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,
0:09.4	where we encounter God's plan of sheer goodness for us, revealed in scripture and passed
0:13.3	down through the tradition of the Catholic faith. The Catechism in a year is brought to you by
0:16.8	Ascension. In 365 days, we'll read through the Catechism of the Catholic Church discovering our identity and God's family as we journey together toward our heavenly home. This is day 213. We're reading paragraphs 1554, 1561. As always, I'm using the Ascension edition of the Catechism, which includes a foundations of faith approach, but you can follow along 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
0:41.9	slash c.I. You can also, you could also, if you wanted to, click follow or subscribe in your
0:48.8	podcast app for daily updates and daily notifications because today's day 213. Readingating paragraphs 1554 to 1561, as I said,
0:55.9	um, yesterday. We started talking, not um, yesterday, just yesterday. Yesterday, we started, we continued
1:00.3	yesterday talking about the sacrament of holy orders and the recognition that the ways in which
1:05.4	the priest represents Christi the head. He acts in persona, Christi Capatis. Also, he's been given a power, but that power
1:12.1	is to serve, and that's highly, highly important. The priest continues to be flawed. The priest
1:17.6	continues to be broken in many ways, but at the same time, he's given the Spirit of God in a unique
1:22.0	way to act in persona, Christi Capatis, in the person of, the head. Now, today we're going on to talk about
1:28.1	to begin talking about the three degrees of the Sacrament of Holy Orders. So the Episcopate,
1:33.1	the Presbyterate, and the Deaconate. They were just going to talk about the Episcopate.
1:38.9	Basically, being bishops. We're going to talk about the fullness of the Sacrament of Holy Orders,
1:43.9	Episcopal ordination. So the bishop, in the bishop, he participates fully in that one
1:49.7	great high priesthood of Jesus. We're talking about that today. Tomorrow we'll talk about
1:53.8	the presbyterate and the next day, the deacconate, but today, fancy word, episcopate.
2:00.3	And so how the bishop participates in the fullness of
2:04.0	Christ's priesthood. So let's, as we launch into today, let us just gather ourselves in the power
2:09.2	of the Holy Spirit, the name of Jesus Christ, and present ourselves to God the Father as we pray.
2:13.7	Father in heaven, we give you praise and glory. Thank you. Thank you so much for bringing us to this
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