Day 157: God’s Word and Sacred Music (2026)
6/6/202616 min
Fr. Mike examines the words, actions, music, and singing involved in how we celebrate the Liturgy. He discusses how, at many Masses, there are signs that accompany the Word of God to emphasize the importance of the Word being proclaimed. He further explains that sacred music is a combination of music and words drawn chiefly from Sacred Scripture. When we sing during the Liturgy, we are making art out of God’s Word, itself, and that art forms a necessary part of the Liturgy. Today’s readings are Catechism paragraphs 1153-1158.
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. This is day one hundred and fifty-seven. We are reading paragraphs eleven fifty-three to eleven fifty-eight. As always, I'm using the Ascension Edition of the Catechism, which includes some 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. This day is day one fifty-seven. We are reading paragraphs eleven five three to eleven five eight, talking about two different things. Yesterday, we launched in even more deeply into how is the liturgy celebrated. Remember the day before, who celebrates the liturgy? Beautiful, incredible. Yesterday, how is liturgy celebrated? Continuing. Yesterday, we talked about signs and symbols, right? That way of we communicate through signs and symbols. That's how God communicates to us in signs and symbols. Two... The next two signs and symbols we're talking about are words and actions and singing and music. So today, we have three paragraphs on each, three paragraphs on words and actions that we basically, here is God speaking to us through sacred scripture, right, and speaking to us through the liturgical word and action. And also, here is singing and music