Day 188: Christ’s Presence in the Eucharist (2026)
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The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz)
18 min
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4 chapters
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How does Fr. Mike introduce the Catechism in a Year and today’s reading plan?
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 188. We're reading paragraphs 1373 to 1377. As always, I am 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 follow or subscribe in your podcast app for daily updates and daily notifications because today... As I said, it's day 188. We were reading paragraphs 1373 to 1377. We were talking about the real presence of Jesus Christ in the Eucharist, which is remarkable, not only for its own sake, but also because, you know, I didn't read ahead yesterday, but I was talking about transubstantiation yesterday. And so I gave you a little sneak peek, a little heads up into what we're going to read today. It is a miracle. That's akin, I don't know, I was going to say akin to the incarnation, but it really is. that at every mass, in every tabernacle around the world, bread and wine become truly, really and substantially the body and blood, soul and divinity of our Lord Jesus Christ.
It's incredible. And so as we talk about this holy thing, I made a little joke at the beginning, but as we talk about this holy thing, let's just ask the Lord to help us to appreciate, even to begin to appreciate, the depth of his love for us, that at every mass, he transforms bread and wine into his body and blood, truly, really, and substantially. So let's pray now. Father in heaven, we give you praise and we thank you. We thank you for the gift of your church, the gift of faith, hope, and love. We thank you for the gift of your Holy Spirit. We thank you for the gift of your son, for you so loved the world that you gave your only son, so that everyone who believes in him may not perish, but might have eternal life.
And you've given us your son to be our food in this miraculous, mysterious, incredible way.
What prayer and opening reflection prepare us to understand Christ’s presence in the Eucharist?
Help us to recognize him in the breaking of the bread. Help us to really truly see who Jesus is as he comes to us on a regular basis, daily basis in the Eucharist. And help us to fall in love with him as you are in love with us. 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 188. We're reading paragraphs 1373 to 1377. The presence of Christ by the power of his word and the Holy Spirit. Christ Jesus, who died, yes, who was raised from the dead, who is at the right hand of God, who indeed intercedes for us, is present in many ways to his church. In his word, in his church's prayer, where two or three are gathered in my name, in the poor, the sick, and the imprisoned, in the sacraments of which he is the author, in the sacrifice of the mass, and in the person of the minister.
but he is present most especially in the Eucharistic species. The mode of Christ's presence under the Eucharistic species is unique. It raises the Eucharist above all the sacraments as the perfection of the spiritual life and the end to which all the sacraments tend. In the most blessed sacrament of the Eucharist, the body and blood, together with the soul and divinity of our Lord Jesus Christ, and therefore the whole Christ, is truly, really, and substantially contained. This presence is called real, by which is not intended to exclude the other types of presence as if they could not be real too, but because it is presence in the fullest sense. That is to say, it is a substantial presence by which Christ, God, and man –
makes himself holy and entirely present.
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Chapters
4 chapters
1
How does Fr. Mike introduce the Catechism in a Year and today’s reading plan?
0:06–2:14
2
What prayer and opening reflection prepare us to understand Christ’s presence in the Eucharist?
2:14–13:53
3
How does paragraph 1373 explain the various ways Christ is present to the Church?
13:53–17:00
4
Why is the Eucharist described as a unique and 'real' presence of Christ in paragraph 1374?
17:00–18:51