Day 113: The Temple of the Holy Spirit (2026)
4/23/202618 min
“What the soul is to the human body, the Holy Spirit is to the Body of Christ, which is the Church.” The Catechism uncovers how the Holy Spirit truly builds up the whole Church in the name of Jesus. Fr. Mike dives into the incredibly diverse gifts that the Holy Spirit gives up for the building up of the Kingdom—the charisms. Today's readings are Catechism paragraphs 797-810.
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 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 thirteen, and we're reading paragraphs seven ninety-seven to paragraph eight hundred and ten. The end of this section, we have some nuggets, kind of like a little quasi actual paragraph day and some nugget day. I'm using the Ascension edition of the Catechism, which includes the Foundations of Faith approach. 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 also, you can click follow or subscribe in your podcast app for daily updates and daily notifications. Today is day one thirteen, reading paragraphs seven ninety-seven to the end of this section, paragraph eight hundred and ten. We're talking about the Church is the temple of the Holy Spirit, and I love this. You guys, how many times, and I've mentioned this before, how many times have we said that the mission of the Son and the mission of the Spirit are the same mission? And this is... I, I think if there's one maybe overarching takeaway that I maybe have underestimated as a human being and maybe underestimated as a Christian, underestimated as a priest, is that, is the [chuckles] fact that the Son's mission and the Spirit's mission are the same