Day 168: The Celebration of Baptism (2026)
6/17/202614 min
We continue our examination of the Sacrament of Baptism, specifically how we celebrate the sacrament and the different elements that must always be present in Baptism. Fr. Mike emphasizes that while infant Baptism has become the “form in which this sacrament is usually celebrated,” post-baptismal formation and instruction is necessary in order for the full flowering of the graces received in the Sacrament of Baptism. Today’s readings are Catechism paragraphs 1229-1233.
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
[outro 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 sixty-eight. We are reading paragraphs twelve twenty-nine to twelve 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 follow along by downloading your own Catechism in a Year reading plan by visiting ascensionpress.com/ciy. [inhales] Wow! You can also, I don't know if you know this, little-known fact that people can click follow or subscribe in your podcast app for daily updates and daily notifications because today is day one sixty-eight. You know, we've been talking about baptism, and the question today, leading into this whole new section, is how is the sacrament of baptism celebrated? And we're talking today specifically about Christian initiation, meaning, like, how, how have people been initiated into the Catholic Church? How, how have people been initiated into Christianity? And so we're gonna go all the way back to the very beginning and talk about how did the Church originally bring people in, and also how that's developed over the course of, you know, roughly two thousand years until we have the rite of Christian initiation for adults that we have now. Also, what do you do when you baptize kids? Like,