Day 228: Blessings, Sacramentals, and Popular Piety

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

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🗓️ 16 August 2023

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Sacramentals are sacred signs that resemble the sacraments. Blessings of people, places, and objects are foremost among the various sacramentals found in the life of the Church. Among these blessings are those of exorcism, in both its simple and solemn form. Fr. Mike notes that sacramentals and the many forms of popular piety, such as the Rosary, are noble expressions of faith that prepare us to participate in the Liturgy but can never replace the Liturgy. Today’s readings are Catechism paragraphs 1667-1679.

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	I'm a name's Father Mike Schmitz, and you're listening to the Catechism Any Year Podcast,
0:09.5	where we encounter God's plan of sheer goodness for us, revealed in Scripture and passed
0:13.4	down to the tradition of the Catholic faith.
0:15.4	The Catechism Any Year is brought to you by Ascension.
0:17.8	In 365 days, we'll read through the Catechism of the Catholic Church discovering our identity
0:22.3	in God's family, as we journey together toward our Heavenly Home this is day 228.
0:27.0	We are reading paragraphs 1667-1679, lots of paragraphs, as always I'm using the Ascension
0:32.6	edition of the Catechism, which includes the foundations of faith approach, but you can
0:35.8	follow along with any recent version of the Catechism of the Catholic Church.
0:38.7	You can also download your own Catechism in a year reading plan by visiting AscensionPress.com,
0:43.7	slash C-I-Y, and lastly, you can click follow or subscribe in your podcast app for daily
0:47.5	updates and daily notifications today, as day 228, as I mentioned yesterday, maybe a couple
0:51.9	times.
0:52.9	I was just very excited about the fact that we came to the end of the seven sacraments, and
0:56.3	today we're talking about these last little articles at the very end, other liturgical
1:00.4	celebrations.
1:01.7	One of the things that I think I've heard people say that was lost with the Second Vatican
1:06.6	Council was the rule of sacramentals, or the place that devotionals have in the life
1:13.5	of the ordinary Christian of the ordinary Catholic, and yet here is this mini-section that's
1:19.6	reserved exclusively to talk about sacramentals, that's reserved exclusively to talk about
1:24.1	popular piety.
1:25.1	So we're going to talk about that today.
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