Day 214: Priests and the Presbyterate

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

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🗓️ 2 August 2023

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Summary

The Catechism moves on from bishops—the episcopacy—to priests in the presbyterate, who share in the bishop’s ministry “in a subordinate degree”, to be “co-workers”. Fr. Mike dives deep into the service-leadership that priests are called to. “[A priest’s] whole life must be configured and must be conformed to Jesus Christ the high priest.” Today’s readings are Catechism paragraphs 1562-1568.

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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 down
0:13.4	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 in
0:22.4	God's family as we journey together toward our heavenly home. This is day 214, we are reading
0:26.8	paragraphs 1562 to 1568. I am using, as always, the ascension edition of the Catechism, which
0:32.7	includes the foundations of faith approach, but you can follow along with any recent version of
0:36.4	the Catechism of the Catholic Church. You can also download your own Catechism in a year reading plan
0:40.6	by visiting ascensionpress.com slash C-I-Y, and you can click follow or subscribe in your podcast
0:45.2	at for daily updates, in daily notifications. Yesterday we talked about the bishops, the Episcopacy,
0:51.3	today we're talking about the Presbyterate, or the Presbyteracy, the priesthood, essentially.
0:57.2	And tomorrow, obviously, you can see where we're going with this, deacons. Today we recognize
1:02.0	that here are the ordination of priests, co-workers of the bishops. And so what is the role,
1:08.2	I'd say like this, what's the dignity of the priesthood, meaning like what is its most sacred
1:12.8	character? That's what we're talking about here. What's the most sacred character, the special
1:16.2	character of the priesthood? And then in many ways, like how are priests expected, in some ways,
1:21.2	how are they expected to live? And we talked about this a couple days ago, that they're expected
1:25.0	to exercise the divinely-given power in a way that they imitate Jesus in everything.
1:33.7	How did Jesus live out this priesthood? How did Jesus live out this ministry in this mission?
1:41.3	Well, obviously, he spoke the truth, he spoke powerfully, he powerfully taught.
1:47.3	Obviously, he bound up the sick, so he healed, he had this mission of sanctifying and making
1:52.9	holy, making holy again. He had a mission of establishing and leading people. Jesus from
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