Day 168: The Celebration of Baptism (2026)
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The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz)
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How does the episode introduce the focus on the Sacrament of Baptism and readings (1229–1233)?
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 168, we are reading paragraphs 1229 to 1233. As always, I'm 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 follow along by downloading your own Catechism in a year reading plan by visiting ascensionpress.com slash C-I-Y.
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You can also, I don't know if you know this, little known fact that people can click follow or subscribe in your podcast app for daily updates and daily notifications because today. I say 168, you know, we've been talking about baptism and the question today leading into this whole new section is how is the sacrament of baptism celebrated? And we're talking today specifically about Christian initiation, meaning like how, how have people been initiated into the Catholic church? How, how people have been initiated into Christianity. And so we're going to go all the way back to the very beginning and talk about how did the church originally bring people in and also how that's developed over the course of, you
Until we have the right of Christian initiation for adults that we have now. Also, what do you do when you baptize kids? Like, how do you bring them? How do you initiate them? Because baptism is initiation, but it's not the only part of initiation. There's other aspects of initiation. So we're looking at those today in paragraphs 1229 to 1233. Before we get started, or as we're starting, let's pray. Let's ask the Lord, the God of love, the God of life. God, who has loved us into life, to be with us now as we pray.
Father in heaven, we thank you and we give you praise. In the name of your son, Jesus Christ, receive our praise, receive our thanks this day. Lord God, in the midst of sorrow, in the midst of joy, in the midst of suffering, and in the midst of strength, we just give you praise.
We ask that you please hear our prayer and pour out your Holy Spirit upon all of us that Those of us who are on our way into full initiation with the Catholic Church may get to that place with great joy and great love. And for those who have been initiated into the church, into your church, we ask that you awaken in our hearts and enliven in our lives your grace. Your grace is new every morning. Your mercies are new every morning. And you are here with us now. Bring those graces to life. Ignite them. Like a smoldering wick or burning ember, let them become a roaring flame. 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 168. We are reading paragraphs 1229 to 1233. How is the sacrament of baptism celebrated? Christian initiation. From the time of the apostles, becoming a Christian has been accomplished by a journey and initiation in several stages. This journey can be covered rapidly or slowly, but certain essential elements will always have to be present. Proclamation of the word, acceptance of the gospel entailing conversion, profession of faith, baptism itself, the outpouring of the Holy Spirit, and admission to Eucharistic communion. This initiation has varied greatly through the centuries according to circumstances. In the first centuries of the Church, Christian initiation saw considerable development.
A long period of catechumenate included a series of preparatory rites, which were liturgical landmarks along the path of catechumenal preparation and culminated in the celebration of the sacraments of Christian initiation. Where infant baptism has become the form in which this sacrament is usually celebrated, it has become a single act encapsulating the preparatory stages of Christian initiation in a very abridged way.
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