Day 165: Summary of Liturgical Diversity (2026)
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The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz)
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What passages and paragraphs are we covering in Day 165?
Hi, my name's 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 165. We're reading paragraphs 1204 to 1209. Those last little bits are nuggets. And I'm also, as you probably know, 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 your reading plan by visiting ascensionpress.com slash C-I-Y. And lastly, you can click follow or subscribe in your podcast app for daily updates and daily notifications. On one thing, I know people are like, why do you always say the same thing every time? Why do you have to tell us that it's the Ascension edition of the Catechism? Why do you have to tell us that we can get the Catechism into your reading plan? It's kind of like, you know, I don't know if you've ever watched a TV show and sometimes they have the opening credits. It's always the same.
Kind of like that. This is the intro. You're like, how come you keep having the intro? This show has been on air for eight seasons. Why do you keep doing the opening credits? And the answer is because that's how you start things. And also, what a great thing, streaming services, what do they have? The ability to skip the intro, skip the opening credits. You know what you can do? You can click, you know, fast forward, jump it ahead 30 seconds and then jump over all that stuff. It's right there.
How does the episode introduce the theme of liturgy and culture?
Also, I want to thank everybody, anybody who's supported the production of this podcast with Prayers and Financial Gifts. Could not do this without you. We made it all the way to day 165. We're reading paragraphs 1204 to 1209. Those last three paragraphs are nuggets. And the first three paragraphs are not nuggets. They're about liturgy and culture, which is, here is the culture. And culture is taken into account. Whenever the church encounters culture, it always takes that culture into account and incorporates the culture in a unique way when it comes to celebrating the liturgy. Also, though, whenever that happens, the church takes great care, great care to make sure that there are not any corruptions to the liturgy by anything that's incorporated into the culture.
So that's a big thing. There is a diversity. But that diversity is not... random diversity it there there's a variety but that variety has a must have must have a very clear unity as well and it's not kind of a willy-nilly we just accept whatever from any culture there are many things that can be baptized in a culture and there are many things that in a culture we have to say nope that that can't be brought into the tradition of the church so we're going to talk a little bit about those things today in paragraph 1204 to 1209 as we begin let's say a prayer Father in heaven, we give you praise and glory. Thank you so much for bringing us to this day. We ask you to please enlighten our minds, open our hearts so that we can appreciate the variety that you've given to us and that we can participate in the unity of the church that you have given to us through your beloved son, our Lord Jesus Christ.
In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. Day 165, paragraphs 1204 to 1209. Liturgy and Culture The celebration of the liturgy, therefore, should correspond to the genius and culture of the different peoples.
How does the Catechism say liturgy should correspond to different cultures?
In order that the mystery of Christ be made known to all the nations, to bring about the obedience of faith, it must be proclaimed, celebrated, and lived in all cultures in such a way that they themselves are not abolished by it, but redeemed and fulfilled.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What passages and paragraphs are we covering in Day 165?
0:05–1:31
2
How does the episode introduce the theme of liturgy and culture?
1:31–3:23
3
How does the Catechism say liturgy should correspond to different cultures?
3:23–7:18
4
Why must liturgical diversity never damage the unity of the Church?
7:18–9:42
5
Which cultural customs can be baptized into Catholic practice and why?
9:42–11:55
6
What kinds of ancestral customs are incompatible with Catholic faith?
11:55–13:31