Day 186: The Sacrificial Memorial (2026)
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The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz)
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Hi, my name is Fr. Mike Schmitz, and you're listening to the Catechism in a Year podcast, where we encounter God's plan of pure 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 186. We're reading paragraphs 1362 to 1368. 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 also click also, also, also, right? All these things you could do. You don't have to, but you could. Click follow or subscribe in your podcast app for daily updates and daily notifications because here we are today. On day 186, we're continuing to talk about the Eucharist. And as we've mentioned for the last few days about the sacrifice, how that's the sacrificial nature of the Eucharist. Today, we're talking about the sacrificial memorial of Christ and of his body, the church. We're talking about both of those. Actually, not just today, today and tomorrow. And who knows, maybe even the day after that, because there is this truth we have to understand that the heart of religion, I know you might be bored of this, tired of this.
This might be old news for you. The heart of religion is worship and the heart of worship is sacrifice. And so we recognize that at every mass, the power of the Holy Spirit working through the the offering of this unique sacrifice of Jesus Christ in the liturgy of the church, which is also his body, right? The church is also the body of Christ. And so there's this remarkable synthesis where not only is it Jesus, Jesus's action, right? Jesus's action back in time, 2000 years ago, that's made present because of the anamnesis.
What is the episode’s focus and which Catechism paragraphs are we reading?
Remember that, that memorial, that anamnesis? But also, here is the body of Christ, the church, that is being offered to the Father for the praise and glory of God the Father for all eternity. And so there's this remarkable synthesis of the body of Christ once for all offered on the cross, the body of Christ offered in the Mass, in the Eucharist, and the body of Christ, the church, that is offered in Christ. How beautiful is that, you guys? That's what we're gonna talk about today. So to open our minds and our hearts to this truth, this profound reality, to be part of the sacrifice, we'll just pray. So we pray, Father in heaven, we thank you and we praise you. We thank you for bringing us into your body.
Thank you for giving us your body. And thank you so much. for the sacrifice of your body, blood, soul, and divinity for our salvation. Lord, without you, without you, we are lost. Without you, we are nothing. Without you, there is nothing. You are the foundation of all being. You are the foundation of all truth, of all love, of all goodness. Help us to participate in your goodness. Help us to cooperate with your goodness. Help us to live and walk in your truth and help us to be signs of your love in this world to the people around us. Oh God, help us truly to be your body as we walk this earth, to lift up those who are among us, who have fallen, to bring light to those who walk in darkness, and to bring hope to those who are discouraged.
Father, be with us now and give us your Holy Spirit. We make this prayer in the name of Jesus Christ, our Lord. Amen. In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. Today is day 186. We are reading paragraphs 1362 to 1368. The Sacrificial Memorial of Christ and of His Body, the Church The Eucharist is the memorial of Christ's Passover, the making present and the sacramental offering of his unique sacrifice in the liturgy of the church, which is his body. In all the Eucharistic prayers, we find after the words of institution, a prayer called the anamnesis or memorial.
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