Day 114: The Church Is One (2026)
4/24/202619 min
In this new paragraph—"The Church is One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic”—the Catechism explains how and why the Church is “One”. Fr. Mike highlights the many manifestations of the good that Jesus works through the Church, and he also urges us to cling to the “visible bonds of unity” that Christ offers us. Today’s readings are Catechism paragraphs 811-816.
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 instrumental 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 and fourteen. We'll be reading paragraphs eight hundred and eleven through eight hundred and sixteen. 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 to get daily updates and daily notifications. Ah. [chuckles] It's day one hundred and fourteen. I'm reading paragraphs eight hundred and eleven through eight hundred and sixteen. Okay, here we go. This is... It's a new paragraph, and we're gonna talk about these four, what they call the four marks of the Church. The Church is one, holy, catholic, and apostolic. So today, we're gonna break down that, that first... Well, for the next couple days, really, we're, we're gonna break down what is it to say that the Church is one, and yet we have to understand that for the next couple days [chuckles] actually, we don't have to understand. If you choose not to, that's fine. I would like you to understand that the Church would like us to understand that there are these, again, these four marks of the Church that make... I don't