Day 121: The Apostolate (2026)
5/1/202618 min
For the Church to remain truly apostolic, she must exercise the apostolate, which is the mission “to spread the Kingdom of Christ over all the earth.” Today’s readings remind us that all members of the Church are “sent out” on a mission to proclaim the Good News. Most importantly, Fr. Mike emphasizes that charity, drawn from our unity with Christ, is the “soul” of the whole apostolate that leads us to bear fruit. Today’s readings are Catechism paragraphs 863-870.
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 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. It is day one hundred and twenty-one. We are reading paragraphs eight hundred and sixty-three to eight hundred and seventy. It is nugget day, as well as three additional paragraphs before the nuggets. 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 for daily updates and daily notifications. As I said, it is day one hundred and twenty-one. We're reading paragraphs eight sixty-three, eight sixty-four, and eight sixty-five. Those are the last paragraphs of this section, One, Holy, Catholic, Apostolic. And then we have a, a couple nuggets. I don't know. We'll say five. We'll call them five. Five nuggets we got from paragraph eight sixty-six to eight seventy. One of the things, you know, we've been talking about is how these four marks of the Church, one, holy, catholic, and apostolic. Well, yesterday we talked about very, very clearly, and hopefully clearly, how the Church must be apostolic, right? Based off of the, the mission that Jesus entrusted to the apostles, and also based off the promise that Jesus entrusted to the apostles that