Day 126: Prophetic and Kingly Offices (2026)
5/6/202620 min
In addition to Christ's priestly office, lay people are called to participate in Christ's prophetic and kingly offices. They take part in Christ's prophetic office by evangelizing and proclaiming Christ by word and with the testimony of their lives. Fr. Mike explains that the laity participate in Christ's kingly office in their hearts. They do this when they rule themselves and conquer sin, acting as virtuous leaders in the Church and society. Fr. Mike also reminds us that lay people should strive to be guided by Christian conscience in all their actions in the Church and society. Today's readings are Catechism paragraphs 904-913.
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'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 twenty-six. We're getting to the edge of that, that bottom of that third, second, I don't know how many pages we have. [laughs] We're getting to the bottom of it, though, and we're reading paragraphs nine oh four to nine thirteen. I am 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, in which case you would know that we're getting to the bottom of this, the check-off sheet, what I'm doing, I'm checking off the days. 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-six, reading paragraphs nine oh four to nine thirteen. Uh, you know, we t-started talking the other day, meaning yesterday, [laughs] about the lay faithful, and we talked about the term laity, meaning all the faithful except those in holy orders and those belonging to a religious state, right? So I think we kind of know that, right? All the, all lay believers, all believers who are not priests, deacons, or religious, uh, bishops. And so there's a vocation, and that vocation is of, primarily, of course, to be saints, but then secondly, to, to live out the priestly, the royal, and the prophetic