Day 124: Teaching, Sanctifying, and Governing (2026)
5/4/202622 min
There are three offices that belong to the episcopal college: the teaching office, the sanctifying office, and the governing office. Fr. Mike gives us an overview of the functions within these offices and clarifies the charism of infallibility in matters of faith and morals. As we learn about the authority of the episcopal college, Fr. Mike encourages us to approach the teachings of the Church with docility. Today’s readings are Catechism paragraphs 888-896.
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 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 pure 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-four. We're reading paragraphs eight hundred and eighty-eight, that's eight eighty-eight, to eight hundred and ninety-six. 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 you can also click follow or subscribe in your app, your podcast, wherever you're listening to this, to sign up to, you know, follow or subscribe and receive daily notifications. It's day one hundred and twenty-four. We're reading paragraphs eight eighty-eight to eight ninety-six. What we're talking about is the extension of what we've been talking about for the last few days. Yesterday, the Episcopal College, remember that college of bishops, that community, the communion of bishops with the Pope, that they are united as successors of Peter and the successors of the apostles. Now, they have a threefold office. There's a threefold office that belongs to the Pope and belongs to the bishops. And so what is the threefold office? That is the teaching office, the sanctifying office, and the governing office, that, that the Holy Father and other bishops with him are entrusted with these three, uh, roles, essentially,