Day 218: Summary of Holy Orders (2025)

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

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🗓️ 6 August 2025

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Together, with Fr. Mike, we reach the conclusion and “nugget day” for the section on the sacrament of Holy Orders. Fr. Mike reiterates that all three degrees of the sacrament are a longed for element of the “priestly people.” They are those called to go before God and before his people as a mediator. Fr. Mike also explains that for those who are not called to either “sacrament of service”, Holy Orders or Matrimony, we are all called “to be able to rejoice with those who have received gifts.” Today’s readings are Catechism paragraphs 1590-1600.

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 down
0:13.2	through the tradition of the Catholic faith. The Catechism in a year is brought to you by
0:16.3	ascension. In 365 days, we'll read through the Catechism of the Catholic Church,
0:20.8	discovering our identity
0:21.8	and God's family as we journey together toward a heavenly home. It is day 218. We are reading paragraphs
0:26.8	1590 to 1600. That's incredible. Pretty remarkable. As always, I'm using the Ascension
0:33.8	edition of the Catechism, which includes a foundations of faith approach, but you can follow along
0:37.2	with any recent version of the Catechism of the Catholic Church. You can also download 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.
0:39.4	You can also download your own catechism in a year reading plan by visiting ascensionpress.com slash CIY, and you can click follow or subscribe on your podcast app for daily updates and daily notifications. Today, Nugget Day, and we've got quite a few. I believe there are 11 nuggets, paragraph 1590 to 1,600.
0:37.5	That's like 10,
0:56.7	I know, but sometimes, you know, counting 1590 to 16, it's nuggets on the holy orders. And
1:03.9	tomorrow we get to launch into holy matrimony, which is just awesome, so good. But today,
1:10.1	it is going to be that review day. It's going to be the
1:12.0	in brief day. It is Nugget Day. And so as we dive in to today, to just kind of be reminded of
1:16.9	the great gift that the Lord Jesus gave to us when he instituted the New Testament priesthood,
1:22.8	let's just call upon our Heavenly Father and pray. Let's pray now. Father in heaven, we praise you and give you
1:29.7	glory. We thank you so much. We ask that you please hear our prayer. We ask that you not only
1:34.2	fill us right now in this moment with your Holy Spirit, a spirit of wisdom, of insight, a spirit
1:39.5	of counsel and of knowledge, a spirit of fear of the Lord, a spirit that recognizes your gifts.
1:47.0	The natural gift you give to us each day with a sunrise, the natural gift you give to us
1:51.6	each day of a heart in our chest that beats and breath in our lungs, but also the supernatural
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