Day 122: Christ’s Faithful (2026)
5/2/202621 min
There are three primary roles among Christ’s faithful: the hierarchy, the laity, and consecrated life. Fr. Mike explains the difference between these three roles, emphasizing that they are equal in dignity but different in the way they support the Church’s mission. We also learn that all of Christ’s faithful share in the priestly, prophetical, and kingly office of Christ. Lastly, Fr. Mike reviews the mission and characters of ecclesial ministry. Today’s readings are Catechism paragraphs 871-879.
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 and twenty-two. We're reading paragraphs eight hundred and seventy-one to eight hundred and seventy-nine. I'm using the Ascension [chuckles] 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 I don't know if you know this, it's a secret. I, I don't know if I've ever said this before, but you can click follow or subscribe in your podcast app for daily updates and daily notifications. Today is day one hundred and twenty-two. As I noted, we're reading paragraphs eight seventy-one to eight seventy-nine. We're talking about Christ's faithful. So remember, as we're talking about the church, there's what makes up the church, what makes up the body of Christ. Well, there's a structure there, and there's, there's certain roles within the church, and we're gonna talk about those for the next few days. But here, the paragraph four, it's called, we're looking at Christ's faithful, hierarchy, laity, and consecrated life. So kind of these, these three elements or three aspects, the hierarchy, the laity, and the consecrated life. Those are the first basically three paragraphs here, eight seventy-one to eight seventy-three. And then we'll