Day 160: The Liturgical Year (2026)
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The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz)
10 min
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3 chapters
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What is the purpose and structure of this episode on the liturgical year?
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 160. We're reading paragraphs 1168 to 1173. As always, I'm using the Ascension edition of the Catechism, which includes the Foundations of Faith approach, 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 slash CIY.
And you can click follow or subscribe in your podcast app for daily updates and daily notifications. Speaking of that, you know, we talked about yesterday. The big word was today. So today I want to just offer a quick thank you to all those who have supported the production of this podcast with your prayers, with your financial gifts. We couldn't make this podcast without you. So thank you so much on this day, day 160, which is pretty incredible. You know, yesterday we asked the question, when is the liturgy celebrated? And we talked about liturgical seasons. We talked about the great word, right? The word is today. and how we celebrate the mass, how we celebrate the Lord's resurrection, celebrate the heart of the time in the church year is Easter, and the Easter we celebrate on every Sunday.
We celebrate a mini Easter every single Sunday. Today, we're talking about the liturgical year, paragraphs 1168 to 1173, as well as the sanctoral in the liturgical year. Now, what is that important? Well, the liturgical year is highlighting what are the big feasts that we celebrate every single year.
How does the host introduce Day 160 and the reading plan (paragraphs 1168–1173)?
Remember, we talked about these yesterday when it comes to seasons. It's very cyclical. Well, number one is the Easter Triduum is the number one, right? So you have Holy Thursday, beginning with Holy Thursday, right? You have Good Friday, Holy Saturday, Easter Sunday. Those three days are called the Easter Triduum. It is the holiest days of the church year. That's the heart of everything because Jesus is suffering death and resurrection are what saves us. So that becomes the source of everything. But then also we recognize that Easter is not just one feast among others. It's preeminent. But we also have other feasts. We have things like Christmas. We have things like Epiphany. We have the Annunciation. And we also have, I use that term, the Sanctorial in the liturgical year.
That's paragraphs 1172 and 1173. What's the Sanctorial? Basically, it's the fact that in the course of the church year, we have other feast days, feast days honoring Our Lady, feast days honoring saints, and other events in church history. So keep those things in mind. That's what we're talking about today, the liturgical year, as well as the Sanctorial in the liturgical year. As we launch into today, let's say a prayer. Father in heaven, we give you praise. We give you glory. You are the God of heaven and earth. You are the God who made all time. You are the God who made all space. You are the God of it all. And we ask you to please. Not only sanctify all that you've created, not only sanctify all the space you've created, all the places you've created, sanctify time, sanctify our time.
This day, Lord God, let this day be a day that is consecrated to you, a day that is dedicated and set apart for you. No matter when we're listening to this, Lord God, let this day be your day.
And may you be glorified in the ordinary. May you be glorified in the normal. May you be glorified this day and every day.
In Jesus' name we pray. In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. Again, it's day 160. We are reading paragraph 1168 to 1173. The Liturgical Year Beginning with the Easter Triduum as its source of light, the new age of the resurrection fills the whole liturgical year with its brilliance.
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