Day 162: Where the Liturgy Is Celebrated (2026)
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The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz)
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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 162 we're reading paragraphs 1179 to 1186 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 your reading plan by visiting ascensionpress.com slash C-I-Y.
And you can click follow or subscribe in your podcast app for daily updates and daily notifications. Today is day 162, paragraphs 1179 to 1186. Remember the four questions we asked all the way back at the very beginning of this section. Who celebrates the liturgy? We talked about that. How is the liturgy celebrated? When is the liturgy celebrated? Now, the question is, where is the liturgy celebrated? Yesterday, we talked about the sanctification of time, that the liturgy of the hours is one of the things that sanctifies time. And so we have those times set aside. Today, we're talking about the fact that actually, we're not only timed beings, we're also spatial beings, right? We're physical beings. And so the Lord is worshiped in time.
place in space as well as in time and so we're not only talking about the theory of this we recognize that the new covenant is not tied exclusively to any one place that here is god worshiped everywhere but also we worship god in churches what should those churches look like what are some uh things that the church every church should have in it that's what we're going to talk about today because where is the liturgy celebrated is this last question that we're asking before we move on Tomorrow, the next day after this, tomorrow's a nugget day, but just, you know, heads up. So as we ask this question, where's the liturgy celebrated? Let us call upon our heavenly father and just, yeah, thank him for the fact that he has not only sanctified time, he's also sanctified certain places on this planet.
So we give our praise to the Lord and pray. Father in heaven, we do give you praise. In the name of your son, Jesus Christ, we ask you to receive our praise and thanksgiving. Your son, Jesus, who is God, fully God. And yet, at one moment, he entered into time. And at one moment, he entered into space in a unique way in the incarnation. Lord God, in the same way, we ask that you please, once again, break into our time, break into our space, break into our lives with your goodness, with your grace, with your Holy Spirit. Renew us and sanctify each moment of our days and sanctify each place that our feet tread. Lord God, we ask you to send your Holy Spirit upon our local church, our local parish. We ask you to fill that space with your Holy Spirit and may it become more and more a place where you are worshiped and the people of God are sanctified.
We make this prayer in the mighty 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 162. We are reading paragraphs 1179 to 1186. Where is the liturgy celebrated? The worship in spirit and in truth of the new covenant is not tied exclusively to any one place. The whole earth is sacred and entrusted to the children of men. What matters above all is that when the faithful assemble in the same place, they are the living stones gathered to be built into a spiritual house. For the body of the risen Christ is the spiritual temple from which the source of living water springs forth, incorporated into Christ by the Holy Spirit. We are the temple of the living God.
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