Day 218: Summary of Holy Orders (2026)
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What is the purpose of today’s “nugget day” on Holy Orders?
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 a heavenly home. It is day 218. We are reading paragraphs 1590 to 1600. That's incredible. Pretty remarkable. 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 CIY. And you can click follow or subscribe on your podcast app for daily updates and daily notifications today. Nugget Day. And we've got quite a few. I believe there are 11 nuggets. Uh paragraph 15, 19. to 1600. That's like 10, I know, but sometimes, you know, counting. 1590, 1600, it's it's nuggets on the holy orders. And tomorrow we get to launch into holy matrimony, which is just Awesome. So good. But today it is going to be that review day. It's going to be the in-brief day. It is nugget day. And so as we dive into today, to just kind of be reminded of the great gift that the Lord Jesus gave to us when he instituted the New Testament priesthood.
Uh, let's just call upon our Heavenly Father and pray. Let's pray now. Father in heaven, we praise you and give you glory. We thank you so much. We ask that you please hear our prayer. We ask that you not only
How does Fr. Mike explain the three degrees of Holy Orders?
Fill us right now in this moment with your Holy Spirit, a spirit of wisdom, of insight, a spirit of counsel and of of knowledge, a spirit of of fear of the Lord, a spirit that recognizes your gifts. The natural gift you give to us each day, but with a sunrise, the natural gift you give to us each day of uh a heart in our chest that beats and breath in our lungs. But also the supernatural gifts that you've given to us through the grace of your sacraments, through the grace of your church. Thank you for giving us the the holy priesthood. Thank you for giving us holy orders. Thank you for our bishop and for our pastor. Thank you for our deacons who serve in the church. Lord God, we ask you to please increase the number of men you're calling to serve your church as as priests and deacons.
We ask you to please increase also religious communities, religious sisters, and religious brothers. Help all these vocations to abound in. In your grace. Continuing today, we're praying also for those who are called to holy matrimony, recognizing that, Lord God, you fill your earth with people made in your image, and you call us to follow you and call us to serve each other in so many different ways. And two of these ways are through holy matrimony and through holy orders. We ask you to please. increase the number of those people who are called to those vocations and who say yes to those vocations. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen. In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. Today is two hundred and eighteen paragraphs fifteen ninety to sixteen hundred.
In brief. Saint Paul said to his disciple Timothy, I remind you, to rekindle the gift of God that is within you through the laying on of my hands. And if anyone aspires to the office of bishop, he desires a noble task. To Titus he said, This is why I left you in Crete, that you amend what was defective, and appoint presbyters in every town as I directed you. The whole church is a priestly people. Through baptism, all the faithful share in the priesthood of Christ. This participation is called the common priesthood of the faithful. Based on this common priesthood and ordered to its service, there exists another participation in the mission of Christ, the ministry conferred by the Sacrament of Holy Orders, where the task is to serve in the name and in the person of Christ the head in the midst of the community.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is the purpose of today’s “nugget day” on Holy Orders?
0:05–1:35
2
How does Fr. Mike explain the three degrees of Holy Orders?
1:35–4:10
3
What does the Catechism say about the common priesthood of the faithful?
4:10–7:13
4
Why are bishops, priests, and deacons considered essential to the Church’s structure?
7:13–9:35
5
How is the sacrament of Holy Orders conferred and what character does it imprint?
9:35–11:35
6
What role does ordinary humanity play in the call to Holy Orders?
11:35–13:03
7
How can listeners who aren’t called to Holy Orders still rejoice in others’ gifts?
13:03–14:52
8
What encouragement does Fr. Mike give to those feeling called to marriage or priesthood?
14:52–15:02