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Day 210: The Sacrament of Holy Orders — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) | The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) | YouTubeToText
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This content introduces the Sacraments of Holy Orders and Matrimony as "sacraments of mission" or "sacraments at the service of communion," emphasizing their primary purpose is the salvation of others and the building up of the Church, rather than solely personal salvation.
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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 ear is brought to you by
Ascension in 365 days we'll read through
the catechism of the Catholic Church
discovering our identity and God's
family as we journey together toward our
Heavenly home this is day 210 we're
reading paragraphs 15 33-1538 we're just
starting a new section on the sacraments
of mission sacraments of at the service
of the community holy orders and
matrimony so good as always I'm using
the Ascension edition of the catechism
which includes the foundations of Faith
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financial gifts could not do this
without you we could not get to day 210
without you also I know I mentioned this
yesterday but it kind of is a big deal
it seems like a really big deal for me
it is a big deal to me but it seems like
a big deal that anyone I mean that here
we are on day 210 you keep pressing play
so good incredible we have 155 days left
right that's good math I think that's
good math and and yet we're way way way
past the halfway mark this is this is
good we're cooking with gasoline right
now as some people say I don't know I've
heard it said we're just hitting chapter
three the last section on the sacraments
and then after this is how we live like
what is that moral life look like how do
I live like Jesus Christ in this world
but today we are going to launch into
the sacraments at the service of
communion and so a couple things and
keep in mind we're going to be talking
about obviously let's look at the the
first three sacraments baptism
confirmation Eucharist we talked about
that the other two sacraments we just
covered on sacrament of healing are
those anointing of the sick in
Sacramento reconciliation
these last two sacraments holy orders
and matrimony are directed not
necessarily toward our own salvation
they're directed toward the salvation of others
others
I love this in paragraph 1534 if they do
contribute to personal salvation it's
through service to others that they do
so right so it's it's almost like the
gifts of the holy spirit that God gives
out his gifts of his holy spirit for the
build up of the church it's it's
actually meant to be for others and yet
one person exercises them Faithfully
just like when a person exercises any
gift Faithfully we grow in Holiness
right because if we're saying yes to the
Lord in the exercise of any gift whether
that gift be writing reading teaching
serving doctoring lawyering garbage
picking up or Mighty Works prophecy
words of knowledge all those things
whenever we're using God's gifts for God
it sanctifies us
in the same way in a similar way we'll
say it like that holy orders and matrimony
matrimony
those are not sacraments for the person who
who
receives the sacrament right they're not
the sacrament for the married couple or
for the priest or bishop or Deacon the
sacrament for the building up of people
it's that sense of I like to say it like
this that the two sacraments are
sacraments of discipleship
there are two ways not the only two ways
but they are two ways in which the
Christian goes out into the world we're
going to start here today with the
sacrament of holy orders after the first
three paragraphs we're going to launch
two paragraphs in I do want to make a
note that at the end of paragraph 1536
on holy orders it will remind us that
back way way back in paragraphs
874 we talked about the institution and
mission of that Apostolic Ministry where
we talked about how the church is
Apostolic all of that
we talked about that then so this is
like a big connection between that
moment starting in paragraph 874 and
this moment starting in these paragraphs
paragraphs 1533 and following that's
where we're at so that's what we're
that's going to talk about now gosh
that's a lot of words let's say a prayer
and let's launch in Father in heaven we
give you praise thank you so much for
this gift thank you for this day thank
you for this chapter three this last
section on the the sacraments and thank
you for the gift of matrimony thank you
for the gift of marriage and family
thank you for the gift of the holy
orders thank you for our own moms and
dads thank you for those people among us
who are married and live out their vows
as best they can in the power of your
grace we thank you for our Bishop thank
you for the priests around us thank you
for the deacons that serve in your
church we ask you to please give them
the grace that they need to be faithful
to their vows to live out their vows
each day
Lord God and give us wherever state of
life we're in
wherever we are right now we ask you to
please give us the grace to live out our
promises live out the consecration we've received
received
from you no matter what vocation we are
at in now Lord God we we know that when
we are baptized you made us your sons
and daughters and that is at the heart
of everything
our primary our primary call is to be
your Saints to live like your sons and
daughters because you have made us your
adopted Sons and Daughters help us this
day and every day to give you glory by living
living
as you would live by loving as you would
love in Jesus name we pray Amen in the
name of the father and of the son and of
the Holy Spirit it is day 210 we're
reading paragraphs 15 33 to 15 38.
Chapter 3 The sacraments at the service
of communion
baptism confirmation and Eucharist are
sacraments of Christian initiation
they ground the common vocation of all
Christ's disciples a vocation to
Holiness and to the mission of
evangelizing the world
they confer the grace is needed for the
life according to the spirit during this
life as pilgrims on the March towards
the Homeland
to other sacraments holy orders and
matrimony are directed toward the
salvation of others if they contribute
as well to personal salvation it is
through service to others that they do so
so
they confer a particular mission in the
church and serve to build up the people
of God
through these sacraments those already
consecrated by baptism and Confirmation
for the common priesthood of all the
faithful can receive particular
consecrations those who receive the
sacrament of holy orders are consecrated
in Christ's name to feed the church by
the word and grace of God
on their part Christian spouses are
fortified and as it were consecrated for
the duties and dignity of their state by
a special sacrament
article 6 the sacrament of holy orders
holy orders is the sacrament through
which the church entrusted by Christ to
his Apostles continues to be exercised
in the church until the end of time thus
it is the sacrament of apostolic
Ministry it includes three degrees
episcopic presbyterit and diaconate
on the institution and mission of the
apostolic Ministry by Christ see above
paragraphs 874 and following here only
the sacramental means by which this
ministry is handed on will be treated
why is this Sacrament called orders
the word order in Roman Antiquity
designated an established civil body
especially a governing body
ordonazio means incorporation into an ordo
ordo
in the church there are established
bodies which tradition not without a
basis in sacred scripture has since
ancient times called taxis Greek or ordinase
ordinase
and so the Liturgy speaks of the Ordo
episcoporum the Ordo presbyterorum the
Ordo the acanorum
other groups also received this name of
Ordo catechumens virgins spouses widows
integration into one of these bodies in
the church was accomplished by a right
called ordonazio a religious and
liturgical act which was a consecration
a blessing or a sacrament
today the word ordination is reserved
for the sacramental ACT which integrates
a man into the order of Bishops
presbyters or deacons and goes beyond a
simple election designation delegation
or institution by the community for it
confers a gift of the holy spirit that
permits the exercise of a sacred power
Sakura protestas which can only come
from Christ himself through his church
ordination is also called consecratsio
for it is a setting apart and an
investiture by Christ himself for his church
church
the laying on of Hands by the bishop
with the consecratory prayer constitutes
the visible sign of this ordination
all right there it is the first few
paragraphs of this new section on the
last two sacraments the sacraments at
service of communion sacraments of
mission ah
the holy orders and holy matrimony we're
going to talk about holy matrimony in a
few days obviously first we're leading
off with holy orders now a couple things
to keep in mind is I love that I love
this let's be reminded of this fact
paragraph 1533 reminds us that baptism
confirmation and Eucharist sacraments of
Christian initiation what are they they
ground the common vocation of all Christ
disciples so what's going to happen is
we're going to talk about a Sacrament
that many of you have not experienced
holy orders we're also going to talk
about a Sacrament that I have not
experienced holy matrimony and so but
but there's also people who are
listening in our community who have
experienced neither of these sacraments
and so it's one of these things where it
can be really really easy to get a
little bit salty so the easier it is to
get salty the more we need to like say
let's let's just recognize that this is
a gift that Jesus Christ has given to
the world through his church sacrament
of holy orders
Sacramento matrimony and and kind of in
some ways if we can do this if we can
kind of some somewhat disassociate
ourselves from well I don't have that
Sacrament therefore
salty right that doesn't make any sense
just be able to say wow this is just a
gift I am not married I will never be
married and that's a gift I mean the
fact that marriage exists is a gift and
it's so good it is a gift that I
essentially gave up in order to be a
priest many of you might say well yeah I
gave up holy orders in order to get
married that's awesome or um I gave up
being a religious sister a religious
brother in order to be married or vice
versa right so or I I haven't had an
opportunity for either of those
Sacramento holy orders or the sacrament
of matrimony we recognize that we're all
across the board but what we all share
is this again this common vocation of
all Christ disciples a vocation to
Holiness and to the mission of
evangelizing the world
in baptism confirmation and Eucharist
and so we have to remember that that is
at the heart of things that's being
fully initiated into Christ Church you
don't have to be in any other vocation
in order to be a saint so just keep that
in mind as we move forward if you've
been baptized confirmed you receive holy
communion then you're on your way this
is it you're there's nothing more
essential than being a Son of God or a
daughter of God that's so important
these are just ways gifts that God has
given to us to be able to live out that
call I'm not minimizing that but I am
saying if there's a temptation of
saltiness let's get past that and just
mix all teens out of the saltiness if
that makes any sense okay going on
what what happens here Sacramento holy
orders matrimony they're directed
towards the salvation of others remember
this this is what we said before we even
started a prayer today is these
sacraments are meant to not be for the
person they're not meant to be like
they're talking about of marriage is not
just for the couple
it's meant to be like this is the way in
which the couple has discerned this is
how God has called us to live out our
vocation to be Saints by loving each
other and and being open to a family and
same thing for the holy orders whether
that's the bishop priest or Deacon this
is not because oh this is the way I want
to get Holier this is the way that I
want to live my life it's I experience a
call that I believe God wants me to say
yes to for the service of the people
around me so remember these are both
vocations at the service of others these
are vocations of discipleship there are
vocations not oriented principally
speaking to one's own Holiness but to
the Salvation of others and that's so so
important for us to understand this and
get this into our minds into our hearts
going on to say these sacraments those
are already consecrated by baptism and Confirmation
Confirmation
they receive particular consecrations
so those who receive holy orders are
consecrated in Christ's name to feed the
church by the word and grace of God and
for spouses spouses are consecrated for
the duties and dignity of their state by
a special sacrament of matrimony which
is pretty phenomenal I think it's really
amazing now we were reminded of this
back in the day
background paragraphs you know 800s and
900s that there's three degrees of holy
orders there's the episcopet like
Bishops there's the presbyterit that's
priests and there's the diaconet that's
the deacons and so just kind of a
reminder on that one I really love this
this recognition that there's orders as
well why do we use the word order well
it's a order would be this old Roman
word or Latin word Ordo that would
designate an established civil body so
any kind of body would be an order or an
ordo and so other groups have been in
the church even have Ordo so catechumens
you have the order of catechumens
consecrated virgins they belong to the
order of consecrated virgins you have
spouses you have widows they're they're actually
actually
there are different groups or different
bodies there in the church that come
from that so there are all those orders
so good and there's a unique order right
holy orders of the Episcopal the
presbyterate and diaconet bishops
priests and deacons now one of the
things that the church is going to
highlight and we're going to talk about
this for the next few days is this
ordinazio or this ordination this
particular kind of consecration is I
love this it's not simply an election
designation delegation institution it's
not just simply a okay we set you apart
but actually with the laying out of hands
hands
there's been an extension of the very
power the very power of Jesus Christ
that he extended over the apostles and
giving them his gifts of reconciliation
right giving them his gifts of authority
giving them his gifts of teaching that
that in continuing on we talked about
this again when it comes the apostolic
nature of the church
in handing on these gifts
it is not simply again election
designation delegation
it is this ordination is
passing on again this sacred power where
where
the individual
priest Deacon or Bishop
can do in Christ what they could never do
do
without him
does this recognition is so powerful to
be able to realize that
it is not Joe it's father Joe it's it's
not Joe it's the priesthood of Jesus
Christ working through
father Joe that
that
means something can now happen
that could never happen without ordination
ordination
that you know any human being can can
wave their hand over someone else and
say absolve you of all of your sins
and nothing happens
but when this priest or Bishop is given
this sacred power the Sakura protest us
right given the sacred power and he says
I absolve you of all of your sins in the
name of the father and of the son and of
the Holy Spirit something changes
that any person can get behind an altar
and say this is my body this is my blood
but when a bishop or priest does that
reality changes
and so we recognize that Jesus Christ
himself has given
this gift this power this Sakura protest
us right this sacred power
through the church to the bishops
priests and deacons and that happens by
the laying out of hands
consecratory Prayer by the bishop you
know laying on a hand by the bishop the
prayer of consecration those are the
visible signs of this ordination so
we're going to talk about how this came
to us in the old Covenant tomorrow we're
going to talk about how Jesus Christ is
the one high priest we're also going to
talk about how we participate in this
and how how priests and deacons and
Bishops participate in the priesthood of
Jesus we'll talk about all of this in
the next couple of days but the first
thing we just want to say is okay every
one of us baptized confirmed received
the Eucharist we're all called to the
heights of holiness
not all of us are called to marriage not
all of us are called the holy orders
that all of us are called to be Saints
and that's one of the things we all need
to remember as we March forward you guys
I am praying for you please pray for me
my name is father Mike I cannot wait to
see you tomorrow God bless [Music]
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