Day 164: Liturgical Diversity and Unity (2026)
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The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz)
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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 164. We are reading three or four paragraphs, 1200 to 1203. 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 in your reading plan by visiting ascensionpress.com ciy and lastly you can click follow or subscribe in your podcast app for daily updates and daily notifications because today is day 164 as i said yesterday i said this we have an article broken into two pieces article two liturgical diversity and the unity of the mystery so
there are a number of liturgical traditions in the church. What do we mean by this? Okay, well, here, most people probably listening to this podcast are in the West, right? We belong to the Latin rite of the Roman Catholic Church, but there are a number of other rites in the Roman Catholic Church, and we're going to talk about those today. There is a liturgical diversity there. At the same time, there's this incredible and beautiful unity or catholicity and that's what we're going to talk about today and tomorrow tomorrow it's more on liturgy and culture but today we're talking about liturgical traditions and the catholicity right the universality the unity of the church so as we launch into today let's call upon the lord god who is one and his father son and holy spirit we pray
God in heaven, we love you and we thank you. We thank you for the way in which you have brought about a unity and a diversity, variety and a catholicity, universality. Lord God, you have given us this cosmic world, right? This world that is so diverse and yet is one world. You've given us this church that is so diverse and yet is one church. And you've made us, Lord, God, individuals who are so unique, and yet we are one, united into one body in Christ. Lord God, you are the God of variety and unity. You're the God of uniqueness and oneness. And so we come before you as we are, as individuals, but we also come before you as a body. We come before you as individual persons, but we also come before you as your church.
And we just lift up our minds and our hearts to you right now and ask for you to send your Holy Spirit to fill our individual hearts and minds, but also to unite us even more closely as one body. In the name of your Son, Jesus Christ, our Lord. Amen. In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. Again, it's day 164. We're reading paragraphs 1200 to 1203. Article 2, Liturgical Diversity and the Unity of the Mystery. Liturgical Traditions and the Catholicity of the Church. From the first community of Jerusalem until the Parousia, it is the same Paschal mystery that the churches of God, faithful to the apostolic faith, celebrate in every place.
What is 'liturgical diversity and unity' in the Catholic Church?
The mystery celebrated in the liturgy is one, but the forms of its celebration are diverse. The mystery of Christ is so unfathomably rich that it cannot be exhausted by its expression in any single liturgical tradition. The history of the blossoming and development of these rites witnesses to a remarkable complementarity. When the churches lived their respective liturgical traditions in the communion of the faith and the sacraments of the faith, They enriched one another and grew in fidelity to tradition and to the common mission of the whole church. The diverse liturgical traditions have arisen by very reason of the church's mission. Churches of the same geographical and cultural area came to celebrate the mystery of Christ through particular expressions characterized by the culture.
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