Day 221: The Celebration of Marriage

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

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🗓️ 9 August 2023

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

What does a Catholic wedding look like? Today, we dive into the liturgical celebration of marriage and learn that the celebration must be valid, worthy, and fruitful. Additionally, we briefly cover virginity for the sake of the Kingdom and how this particular call highlights the beauty and goodness of marriage. Fr. Mike emphasizes that those who are called to a life of celibacy can truly live joyful and fulfilling lives. Today’s readings are Catechism paragraphs 1618-1624.

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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,
0:09.2	where we encounter God's plan of sure goodness for us, revealed in Scripture and passed down
0:12.8	through the tradition of the Catholic faith. The Catechism in a Year is brought to you by Ascension.
0:16.7	In 365 days, we'll read through the Catechism of the Catholic Church discovering our identity
0:21.8	and God's family as we journey together to our family home. This is day 221 we are reading
0:26.6	paragraphs 1618 to 1624. As always, I'm using the Ascension edition of the Catechism,
0:31.8	which includes the foundations of faith approach, but you can follow along with any recent
0:35.8	version of the Catechism of the Catholic Church. You can also download your own Catechism
0:39.2	in a Year reading plan by visiting AscensionPress.com slash C.I.Y. And lastly, you can click follow or
0:45.3	subscribe on your podcast app for daily updates and daily notifications because today is
0:49.4	221 B. Baker Street. It is day 221 reading paragraph 1618 to 1624. Yesterday we talked about
0:55.5	the pedagogy of God's teaching us about what marriage is and how Jesus has established
1:01.2	in an unequivocal way, right? The intersolubility of marriage, the original meaning of marriage,
1:06.2	Jesus recovers and gives back to us. And this is just the high call, the high call of marriage today.
1:12.2	We're going to take a couple of next steps. First next step is the virginity for the sake of the
1:16.4	kingdom. It might seem strange to talk about virginity for the sake of the kingdom when you're
1:19.6	talking about holy matrimony, but I don't think it's strange at all because here's the thing.
1:25.4	Sometimes people will say, and I'll say this again probably, sometimes people will say,
1:28.8	oh, so you Catholics, you have people who give up or sell it for the sake of the kingdom,
1:32.1	right? Virginity for the sake of the kingdom. Well, isn't that prohibited in the New Testament? It
1:36.5	doesn't say that, you know, the days will come when people will prohibit marriage and that's what
1:40.3	you're doing right now. No, no, no, no, no, that is not the case. Let me correct you. A virginity for
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