Day 159: When the Liturgy Is Celebrated (2026)
6/8/202615 min
Together, with Fr. Mike, we examine the question of when the liturgy is celebrated. The Catechism states that there is a word that marks Christian prayer, and that word is “today.” Fr. Mike emphasizes that our liturgy and worship happens “today,” not in the past and not in the future, but right now in this present moment. Today’s readings are Catechism paragraphs 1163-1167.
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 instrumental 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 fifty-nine. We are reading paragraphs eleven sixty-three to eleven sixty-seven. 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. And lastly, you can click follow or subscribe in your podcast app for daily updates and daily notifications. Today is day one hundred and fifty-nine. As I said, we're reading paragraphs eleven sixty-three to eleven sixty-seven. The question, remember, we, we're asking the questions. We went all the way back to the very beginning and asked those four questions: Who celebrates the liturgy? How is the liturgy celebrated? When is the liturgy celebrated? And where is the liturgy celebrated? Today, question is when. When is the liturgy celebrated? And so we're looking at today the liturgical seasons as well as the Lord's Day. So two ki- kind of concepts. First is the liturgical seasons. That goes all the way back to Mosaic law, right? It goes all the way back to the beginnings of the Bible. It goes all the way back to the Lord's Day. And then we actually gonna talk about the Lord's Day. In fact, we're, you probably know this already, is that Sabbath, right, that, that day of rest,