Day 166: Introduction to Baptism (2026)
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The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz)
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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 166. We're reading paragraphs 1210 to 1222. 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 a Year 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. You know that already because this is day 166. You've been following along forever. And now we have another corner. Another corner we're turning. We're going into section two, the seven sacraments of the church. And this is incredible. If you have the foundations of faith approach, you know, this whole thing we have through Ascension. You can see that here we are in part two, celebration of the Christian mystery, the sacraments section two, initiation, healing, and service. We have today launching into the seven sacraments. You know, this whole thing we've been talking about for the last bunch of days has been all about what's the groundwork for the liturgy, right?
What are the ground, what's the groundwork for the work of the people work joining in the work of God. And now we have some practicals. I mean, it's, it's also, you know, the mystery behind it as well. So If you're thinking we're going to miss the mystery, we're not going to miss the mystery. Ton of mystery. But also, wow, here are the actual sacraments.
Which paragraphs and readings are covered for the Baptism section today?
And so we're going to read through those today, looking at chapter one, the sacraments of Christian initiation. So the very first sacrament of Christian initiation is baptism. So that's what we're going to launch into. And we're going to see how this is prefigured, the prefigurations of baptism in the old covenant. So there's going to be a little breaks every so often, where if you have this, if you have it in front of you, You'll see like in smaller text, like beginning on paragraph 1217 and then 1218, 1219. I think there's one more in 1220. There is 1221, 1221. There are prayers taken. It's a section of prayers taken out of the Roman Missal when you have the Easter vigil. And so it's the blessing of the water of baptism.
that baptizes people at the Easter vigil. And so just FYI, if you're saying, wow, in the middle of this, it sounds like he's saying a prayer. That's because I am. There's little prayers that basically call to mind the ways in which baptism was prefigured in the old covenant. So that's what we're gonna hear about today. Baptism, sacrament baptism, sacraments of initiation. Oh, let's launch into it today and ask the Lord, the Lord God, who is the author of baptism and the giver of life to come and meet us right now. Father in heaven, you are good and you are God. And you have, you made us your children through the waters of baptism. You made us your children by the action of your son in the pouring out of your Holy Spirit upon this world.
Our God, come once again into our hearts. Come once again in your Holy Spirit to give us your divine life. so that we can be truly your sons and daughters. We truly can be regenerated. We truly can be born again in you. Lord Jesus, your mercies are new every morning. Come and meet us with your mercy now. Father in heaven, you send out your Holy Spirit through the name of your son, Jesus. Send out your Holy Spirit now once again and renew the face of the earth.
What is the scope of Part Two: the seven sacraments introduced on Day 166?
We make this prayer in the mighty name of Jesus Christ, our Lord. Amen. Okay, it is day 166. We're reading paragraphs 1210 to 1222. Christ instituted the sacraments of the new law.
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