Day 26: Communion of Believers (2025)
The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz)
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🗓️ 26 January 2025
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
Today we further realize the sense of the word “credo,” meaning “I believe.” As we read the Apostles’ Creed and the Nicene Creed, we discover the differences between the two and come to understand how the Nicene Creed, which came centuries later, expands upon and explains the beliefs of the Apostles’ Creed. Fr. Mike tells us that these Creeds help us to share the essential elements of Catholicism, acting as “symbols of faith,” and encouraging communion between believers. Today’s readings are Catechism paragraphs 185-192.
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 |
| 0:13.1 | to the tradition of the Catholic faith. The Catechism in a Year is brought to you by ascension. |
| 0:17.0 | In 365 days, we'll read all the way through the Catechism of the Catholic Church, discovering |
| 0:21.2 | our identity in God's family as we journeyed together toward our heavenly home. |
| 0:24.8 | It is day 26. |
| 0:26.0 | We're reading, not only are we reading paragraphs 185 to 192, we are also reading the creed, |
| 0:32.4 | creeds, two of them, the Apostles Creed, and the Nicene Creed today. |
| 0:35.7 | That's what we're doing today. So again, day 26, we're reading the creeds as well as paragraphs 185 to 192. As always, I'm using the |
| 0:42.5 | Ascension Edition of the Catechism, which includes the foundations of faith approach. You can follow |
| 0:46.4 | along with any recent version of the Catechism of the Catholic Church. You can also download |
| 0:50.3 | your catechism into your reading plan by visiting ascensionpress.com slash cI. And also, |
| 0:55.4 | you might know this, but you can click follow or subscribe in your podcast to receive daily updates, |
| 0:59.5 | daily notifications. It would be incredible. As I said, oh my gosh, today we're going to go through |
| 1:04.9 | both the Apostles Crete and the Nicene Crete. That's how we're going to kick things off. |
| 1:08.8 | And so just keep that in mind when you're saying, |
| 1:11.2 | wait, these are different. Yes, of course, they're different. And secondly, they're also the |
| 1:16.4 | introduction, basically, to this new section. We're going into a section two on the creed. And this is |
| 1:22.3 | really incredible. If you have the Ascension's version of the catechism, you'll be able to see that, okay, here we are, |
| 1:29.1 | part one, still, profession of faith. |
| 1:33.0 | What we believe, the creed is section two, the profession of the Christian faith, and it's divided into kind of three main areas, the father, the son, and the Holy Spirit. |
| 1:37.5 | In fact, one of the things that the next couple paragraphs we read today are going to talk about is, yeah, the creed is kind of in three, quote, |
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