Day 128: Unique Calls to Holiness (2026)
5/8/202617 min
The Lord calls everyone to live a life of surrender, and we have been looking at the various ways God calls people to grow in holiness. Religious life includes the public profession of vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience; members of secular institutes dedicate themselves to living in the world and helping to sanctify it. We also learn that those in societies of apostolic life devote themselves to a particular apostolic purpose without religious vows. These calls to holiness are gifts to the Church and the world. Today's readings are Catechism paragraphs 925-933.
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. It is day one hundred and twenty-eight. We're reading paragraphs nine twenty-five to nine thirty-three. 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. If you did, if yours looks like mine, this is the last day of this page, which is awesome. It's great. Also, you can click follow or subscribe in your podcast app for daily updates and daily notifications. Today is day one twenty-eight. So yesterday, we talked about the eremitic life, right, hermits. We talked about consecrated virgins and widows. Today, we're talking about two more aspects. Well, actually, a couple different aspects, religious life, secular institutes, and societies of apostolic life, so I guess that's three things. What are those things? That's a great question, Camper. Religious life is, as I understand this, religious life are those communities, I mentioned them yesterday, like the Benedictines, or, like, the Franciscans, or, like, those people who, um, are Carmelites. Like, those religious communities, sometimes they're of men, sometimes they're of women, but they live the evangelical counsels. They have a fraternal life, kind of, you know, the brotherhood