Day 157: God’s Word and Sacred Music (2026)
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The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz)
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5 chapters
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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 157. We're reading paragraphs 1153 to 1158. 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 into your reading plan by visiting ascensionpress.com slash CIY.
And lastly, you can click follow or subscribe in your podcast app for daily updates and daily notifications. This day is day 157. We were hitting paragraphs 1153 to 1158. Talking about two different things. Yesterday, we launched and even more deeply into how is the liturgy celebrated? Remember the day before, who celebrates the liturgy? Beautiful, incredible. Yesterday, how is liturgy celebrated? Continuing. Yesterday, we talked about signs and symbols, right? That way of we communicate through signs and symbols. That's how God communicates to us in signs and symbols. The next two signs and symbols we're talking about are words and actions and singing and music. So today we have three paragraphs on each, three paragraphs on words and actions that we basically, here is God speaking to us through sacred scripture, right?
And speaking to us through the liturgical word and action. And also here is singing and music and the importance of singing music. In fact, singing and music is so important. The church says that out of all of the art, out of all of the things that can help us pray well,
What paragraphs of the Catechism are covered and what is Day 157 about?
singing and music is of inestimable value, greater than that of any other art. That's incredible. And here's where we're going to find out why later on, well, today, in the next few minutes, before we launch in, let's just say a prayer. Father in heaven, we give you praise and glory. We thank you so much for bringing us to this place. We thank you for communicating yourself to us in sacred scripture. Thank you for communicating yourself to us through the liturgy and not just speaking a word from afar, but coming close to us. Thank you for revealing your face and your heart to us in the sacraments. Thank you for speaking to us as two children, inviting us to respond, eliciting some act of faith and of hope and of love back to you who are our
Good and heavenly Father, thank you. Please just receive our thanks today that we make in the name of Jesus Christ, our Lord. Amen. In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. It is day 157. We're reading paragraphs 1153 to 1158. Words and Actions A sacramental celebration is a meeting of God's children with their Father, in Christ and the Holy Spirit. This meeting takes the form of a dialogue through actions and words. Admittedly, the symbolic actions are already a language, but the Word of God and the response of faith have to accompany and give life to them so that the seed of the kingdom can bear its fruit in good soil. The liturgical actions signify what the word of God expresses, both his free initiative and his people's response of faith.
The liturgy of the word is an integral part of sacramental celebrations. To nourish the faith of believers, the signs which accompany the word of God should be emphasized. the book of the word, a lectionary or a book of the gospels, its veneration, procession, incense, candles, the place of its proclamation, lectern or ambo, its audible and intelligible reading, the minister's homily, which extends its proclamation, and the responses of the assembly, acclamations, meditation psalms, litanies, and profession of faith. The liturgical word and action are inseparable, both insofar as they are signs and instruction and insofar as they accomplish what they signify.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:05–1:43
2
What paragraphs of the Catechism are covered and what is Day 157 about?
1:43–13:22
3
How does the Catechism define a sacramental celebration as a meeting with God?
13:22–13:52
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Why are words and actions described as a liturgical dialogue?
13:52–15:24
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What signs emphasize the proclamation of the Word of God in Mass (book, procession, ambo)?
15:24–16:03