Day 213: Bishops and the Episcopacy

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

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🗓️ 1 August 2023

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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.

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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,
0:09.5	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 Ascension.
0:17.3	In 365 days, we'll read through the Catechism of the Catholic Church discovering our identity
0:22.2	in God's family as we journey together toward a heavenly home. This is day 213. We reading paragraph
0:27.0	1554, 1561, as always, I'm using the Ascension edition of the Catechism, which includes
0:32.3	the foundations of faith approach, but you can follow along with any recent version of the Catechism,
0:36.2	the Catholic Church. You can also download your own Catechism in a Year reading plan by visiting
0:40.6	AscensionPress.com slash C-I-Y. You can also, you can also, you could also, if you wanted to,
0:47.4	click follow or subscribe in your podcast app, daily updates and daily notifications because
0:51.6	today is day 213. We're reading paragraph 1554, 1561, as I said, um, yesterday, we started talking,
0:57.1	not on yesterday, just yesterday. Yesterday, we started, we continued yesterday talking about
1:01.9	the sacrament of Holy orders and the recognition that the ways in which the priest represents
1:06.6	Christ the head, he acts in persona, Christy capitals. Also, he's been given a power, but that
1:11.8	power 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
1:21.6	unique way to act in persona, Christy capitals, in the person of Christ the head. Now, today, we're
1:27.0	going on to talk about the begin talking about the three degrees of the sacrament of Holy orders.
1:31.8	So the episcopate, the presbiterate and the deaconate, they were just going to talk about the episcopate,
1:37.2	the, the, basically being bishops. We're going to talk about the fullness of the sacrament of Holy
1:43.5	orders, episcopal ordination. So the bishop, in the bishop, he participates fully in that one
1:50.0	great high priesthood of Jesus. We're talking about that today. Tomorrow, we'll talk about the
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