Day 229: Christian Funerals (2025)
The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz)
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🗓️ 17 August 2025
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
In this final episode of Pillar 2, we learn about the Christian funeral rite. Fr. Mike explains how the new life begun in Baptism comes to greater fulfillment as the Christian passes over from this earthly life into the fullness of the Kingdom. The Church, who has sacramentally nourished her children throughout their earthly pilgrimage, upon their death commends them to the Father and places their bodies in the earth to await the resurrection in hope. Each funeral is to end with a farewell to the beloved dead, knowing that we still share communion in Christ and will reunite in our heavenly home. Today’s readings are Catechism paragraphs 1680-1690.
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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Please note: The Catechism of the Catholic Church contains adult themes that may not be suitable for children - parental discretion is advised.
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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 through |
| 0:13.7 | the tradition of the Catholic faith. The Catechism in a year is brought to you by Ascension. |
| 0:17.5 | In 365 days, we'll read through the Catechism of the Catholic Church, discovering our identity in God's family as we journey together toward our heavenly home. This is day 229. We're reading paragraphs 1680 to 1690. As always, I'm using the Ascension edition 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. You can also download your own catechism in a year reading plan by visiting ascensurepress.com |
| 0:41.3 | slash cI. |
| 0:42.6 | And lastly, you can click follow or subscribe in your podcast app for daily updates and daily notifications today. |
| 0:47.2 | Day 229, you know what was coming. |
| 0:49.7 | Here we are. |
| 0:50.3 | Article 2, the very last paragraphs in column 2. It's called a pillar, not a column, |
| 0:57.4 | in pillar two of the catechism on how we worship the sacraments, all of this. And today we're |
| 1:03.5 | going to talk about article two, which is Christian funerals. And this is just, what an incredible |
| 1:07.4 | way to conclude. We recognize, remember the sacraments are God's work, right? |
| 1:11.4 | They're, they get to participate in God's work. And those sacraments, they touch every aspect of our |
| 1:16.6 | lives, especially those critical aspects, birth and healing and sickness and marriage and joy |
| 1:23.6 | and death as well. And so today we're going to talk about the role of Christian funerals because that is so |
| 1:29.3 | important. |
| 1:29.7 | And I think that there are a number of us who maybe, you know, through no fault of our own, |
| 1:35.3 | we just don't know the significance, don't know the importance of Christian funerals. |
| 1:39.1 | So we're diving into that today. |
| 1:41.3 | Before we do that, let's say a prayer. |
| 1:43.5 | So Father in heaven, we give you praise and glory. |
| 1:46.7 | And thank you. Thank you for bringing us to this day. Thank you for walking with us and leading |
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