Day 213: Bishops and the Episcopacy (2026)
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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 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 213. We're reading paragraphs 1554-215. 1561. 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 your reading plan by visiting ascensionpress.com slash C-I-Y.
You can also... You can also, you could also, if you wanted to, click follow or subscribe in your podcast app, daily updates and daily notifications, because today is day 213, reading paragraphs 1554 to 1561. As I said yesterday, we started talking, not yesterday, just yesterday. Yesterday, we started, we continued yesterday talking about the sacrament of holy orders and the recognition that the ways in which the priest represents Christ the head, he acts in persona Christi capitis. Also, he's been given a power, but that power is to serve, and that's highly, highly important. The priest continues to be flawed. The priest continues to be broken in many ways, but at the same time, he's given the Spirit of God in a unique way.
to act in persona Christi Capitis, in the person of Christ, the head. Now, today, we're going on to talk about, to begin talking about the three degrees of the sacrament of holy orders. So, the episcopate, the presbyterate, and the diaconate. Today, we're just going to talk about the episcopate. Basically, Being bishops, we're going to talk about the fullness of the sacrament of holy orders, episcopal ordination. So the bishop, in the bishop, he participates fully in that one great high priesthood of Jesus.
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We'll talk about that today. Tomorrow, we'll talk about the presbyterate. The next day, the diaconate. But today... Fancy word, episcopate. And so how the bishop participates in the fullness of Christ's priesthood. So let's, as we launch into today, let us just gather ourselves in the power of the Holy Spirit, the name of Jesus Christ, and present ourselves to God the Father as we pray. Father in heaven, we give you praise and glory. Thank you. Thank you so much for bringing us to this day. Thank you for bringing us into your church and for giving us the gift of holy orders. Thank you for giving us the gift of our local bishop and the universal bishop, our holy father, the pope. We ask that you please.
On this day, please bless this man in a powerful and unique way. You've called him to serve. You've called him to participate fully, as fully as possible in your great priesthood, your high priesthood. Please preserve and protect him. Give him zeal and love. Lord God, make up for what he lacks. and give him every good gifts that he can teach, sanctify, and govern your church as you would teach, sanctify, and govern your church. We pray for him and all bishops. In Jesus' name, amen. In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, amen. It is day 213. We're reading paragraphs 1554 to 1561. The Three Degrees of the Sacrament of Holy Orders. The divinely instituted ecclesiastical ministry is exercised in different degrees by those who even from ancient times have been called bishops, priests, and deacons.
Catholic doctrine expressed in the liturgy, the magisterium, and the constant practice of the church recognizes that there are two degrees of ministerial participation in the priesthood of Christ, the episcopacy and the presbyterate. The diaconate is intended to help and serve them. For this reason, the term sacerdos, in current usage, denotes bishops and priests, but not deacons. Yet Catholic doctrine teaches that the degrees of priestly participation, episcopate and presbyterate, and the degree of service, diaconate, are all three conferred by a sacramental act called ordination, that is, by the sacrament of holy orders.
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