Day 110: The People of God (2026)
4/20/202619 min
God draws people to himself and makes them his own. The Catechism shows us what makes God’s people different from everyone else, and what it is that unites them. Fr. Mike hones in on what exactly it is that the People of God do, and exhorts us to start doing that right here, today. Today's readings are Catechism paragraphs 781-786.
This episode has been found to be in conformity with the Catechism by the Institute on the Catechism, under the Subcommittee on the Catechism, USCCB.
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[gentle piano music] 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 110. We are reading paragraphs 781 to 786. 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. Also, you can download your free Catechism in a Year reading plan by visiting ascensionpress.com/ciy, and you can also follow or subscribe in your podcast app for daily updates and daily notifications. Once again, I just wanna thank you all who have supported the production of this podcast with your prayers and financial gifts. It's so important. We could not, literally could not do this without you. Here we are, day 110. We're in a new paragraph. Paragraph two, it's "The Church as the People of God, the Body of Christ, and the Temple of the Holy Spirit." So today, we're gonna talk about the Church as the people of God, and, and then tomorrow, the Church as the Body of Christ, and so forth and so on, right, as they say. So, the Church as the people of God. Oh my goodness, you guys, we're gonna highlight... The first paragraph, 781, it is this beautiful paragraph from a document called Lumen Gentium. It's from the Second Vatican Council, and the whole paragraph basically is a quote from Lumen Gentium, paragraph nine. And it is just... You know how when we