Day 169: The Mystagogy of Baptism (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 169. We're reading paragraphs 169. 1-2-3-4 to 1-2-4-5, 1234 to 1245. 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 download your own Catechism and your reading plan by visiting ascensionpress.com slash CIY. And you can click follow or subscribe in your podcast app for daily updates and daily notifications. It's day 169. And yes, I think I'm clever because I said paragraph 1-2-3-4, paragraph 1234 to 1245. Today, the title is called Mysticogy of the Celebration. What's that mean? Mysticogy is the unpacking of the mystery, essentially the teaching of the mystery of the celebration of sacrament of baptism. What we're gonna do here is virtually every paragraph is another aspect of the rite of baptism and then its explanation. So at the beginning, we're in paragraph 1235, it's the sign of the cross. We do this at the beginning of the celebration in marks with the imprint of Christ, the one who's going to belong to him and signifies the grace of the redemption Christ as one for us by his cross.
And we go through that every step basically in baptism, like the white garment, the candle, the anointing of the sacred chrism. We're gonna hear about all of those and there's gonna be an explanation for of why we do all of those things with each of these paragraphs, which I think is pretty incredible. That's called mystagogy, an explanation, teaching of the mystery. So as we enter into mystery, let's call upon our God and Father in prayer. Father in heaven, we give you thanks. We praise you for your glory. We praise you for who you are. We thank you. We thank you for the gift of baptism. We thank you for the gift of not only declaring us to be your children, but making us into your children. We thank you for allowing us to have access to your Father's heart.
We thank you for giving us your only beloved Son as our Savior, our Lord, our God, and our brother. We thank you for your Holy Spirit that dwells in us. Thank you for making us the temple of your Holy Spirit. Lord God, as we unpack the mystery of the celebration of baptism, we ask that you please Give us a fire of love, a fire of faith and hope, a fire that wants to rekindle what you placed in our hearts at our own baptism. Give us a love for you that will never end, so that in you, our lives will never end. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen. In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. It is day 169. We're reading paragraphs 1234 to 1245. the mystagogy of the celebration. The meaning and grace of the sacrament of baptism are clearly seen in the rites of its celebration.
By following the gesture and words of this celebration with attentive participation, the faithful are initiated into the riches this sacrament signifies and actually brings about in each newly baptized person. The sign of the cross on the threshold of the celebration marks with the imprint of Christ, the one who is going to belong to him, and signifies the grace of the redemption Christ won for us by his cross. The proclamation of the word of God enlightens the candidates and the assembly with the revealed truth and elicits the response of faith, which is inseparable from baptism. Indeed, baptism is the sacrament of faith in a particular way, since it is the sacramental entry into the life of faith.
Since baptism signifies liberation from sin and from its instigator, the devil, one or more exorcisms are pronounced over the candidate.
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