Day 111: The Church as the Body of Christ (2026)
4/21/202617 min
“The Church is communion with Jesus.” The Catechism shows us what it means for the Church to be considered the “body of Christ”. Fr. Mike explains how being part of the Church makes us “united in him, in his body”—more intimately connected with Jesus than even the Apostles were. Today's readings are Catechism paragraphs 787-791.
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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First 90 secondsMike Schmitz· Host0:00
[gentle 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 three hundred and sixty-five 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 one hundred eleven. It is three ones. There's something Trinitarian about that, right? There's one, but there's three. [laughs] Anyways, we're reading paragraphs seven eighty-seven to seven ninety-one. 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. You can also download your own Catechism in a Year reading plan by visiting ascensionpress.com/ciy. And lastly, you can click follow or subscribe in your podcast app [chuckles] for your daily updates and daily notifications. Today is day one hundred and eleven. As I said, we're reading paragraph seven eighty-seven to seven ninety-one, as we talked about the images of, of the Church, which include the body of Christ, the people of God, the temple of the Holy Spirit. Yesterday, we talked about the Church as the people of God and looked at those characteristics of the people of God. We noted that we are called... When we're brought into that people, we are made a priestly, prophetic, and royal people. Today, we're taking this next step in another image of the Church, is the Church as the body of Christ. And this, this comes from paragraphs seven eighty-seven to seven ninety-one, highlighting the fact that the Church is in communion with Jesus. You know, at last couple