Day 155: Who Celebrates the Liturgy (2026)
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The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz)
18 min
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2 chapters
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Who is presenting Day 155 and which Catechism paragraphs are covered?
Hi, my name is Father Mike Schmitz, and you're listening to the Catechism in a Year podcast, where we encounter God's plan of sheer goodness for us, revealed in Scripture and passed down through the tradition of the Catholic faith. The Catechism in a Year is brought to you by Ascension. 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 155. We're reading paragraphs 1135 to 1144. I'm using the Ascension edition of the Catechism, which includes the 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 ascensionpress.com and also click follow or subscribe if you want to.
You don't have to if you don't want to in your podcast app for daily updates or daily notifications. Just a quick thank you to all those who have supported the production of this podcast with your prayers and financial gifts. We couldn't do it without you. We couldn't get to day 155. That's for sure. We are in chapter two, sacramental celebration of the Paschal Mystery. A couple of things. You can hear the style of the different people, the different authors of the different sections of the catechism when you're kind of reading it out loud or maybe listening to it out loud. Paragraph 1135 is really good. It's kind of like, you know, you know, those teachers back in the day who say, OK, this is what I'm going to say.
Then they say it and then they tell you what you just what they just said. That's kind of what paragraph 1135 is all about. It's like, hey, we just talked about this. Now we're moving on to the next thing. We're going to ask a bunch of questions. For example, the first question, who celebrates the liturgy? That's what we're looking at today, primarily. And the answer to who celebrates the liturgy, first of all, is, okay, well, the whole Christ, right? Christ the head and his whole body. But the whole body doesn't just mean all of the Christians on the planet Earth, it also means, maybe even primarily means, all those saints in heaven. So we're gonna talk about that in paragraph 1137, 1138. It's kind of really interesting, fascinating.
also maybe 1139. It's really fascinating because here's what the church says is, keep in mind, again, like I said yesterday, these are not empty rituals. These are not just movements that we do. This is a participation in what is going on in heaven right now. And we just get to see a shadow of what's the heavenly reality. And so first reminder, who celebrates the liturgy? First of all, it's our Lord, the whole body of Christ, the head, Jesus Christ, the head, of course, all of the saints in heaven, all creation, essentially. And then from paragraph 1140 to 1144, we're talking about, okay, the community of the body of Christ with its head on earth also celebrates. And so just like yesterday, the baptismal priesthood being so important, the common priesthood of the faithful, or like I like to say, the kingdom priesthood,
yes and also the ministerial priesthood the ordained ministerial priesthood which is you know we're all united and we're all we all come together and we do our own part to worship the lord in the sacraments and so as we learn about this today let's take a second and stop pause and call upon that same god the god that we worship at every mass the god that we come into contact with who reaches out to us through his word and reaches out to us through his sacraments as we pray Father in heaven, we thank you. We give you praise and glory.
You are the God who always remembers. You always remember us. You never forget us and you could never forget us. Oh God, help us to never forget you. Help us to never forget the work of your hands. Help us to never forget the love that you've shown for us and given to us. Help us always to say yes to you. Help us always to remember as you remember. In Jesus' name we pray, amen.
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