Day 112: The Church Is the Bride (2026)
4/22/202616 min
Christ is the head of the Church. The Catechism describes Jesus’ relationship to his Church as “a personal relationship…expressed by the image of bridegroom and bride.” Fr. Mike points out how important this is by reminding us that, underneath all of the doctrine and the dogma, God is madly in love with you. If we always remember this love, everything else will fall into place. Today's readings are Catechism paragraphs 792-796.
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 secondsFather Mike Schmitz· Host0:00
[gentle piano music] Hi, my name's 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 and twelve. We're reading paragraphs seven ninety-two to seven ninety-six. As always, I'm reading from 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 for daily updates and daily notifications. Today is day one hundred and twelve. We're reading paragraphs seven ninety-two to seven ninety-six. Yesterday, we talked about how the Church essentially is one body. The Church is the body of Christ. And today, we're gonna continue to talk about that, how Christ is the head of this body. Yesterday, we ended by talking about how all believers are united, that even though we're diverse, even though the Holy Spirit's gifts are diverse, since the Holy Spirit is one, therefore the Church is one. Now, today, we're emphasizing even more powerfully, I guess, that Christ is the head of this body, and that's so, so important because He unites us with Him in His Passover. That's paragraph seven ninety-three. Christ provides for our growth, right? So the head provides for the growth of the body, and that's seven ninety-four. And then also in paragraph seven ninety-five,