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Day 213: Bishops and the Episcopacy — 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 explains the sacrament of Holy Orders within the Catholic Church, focusing on the three degrees: episcopate (bishops), presbyterate (priests), and diaconate (deacons), with a particular emphasis on the fullness of the sacrament conferred upon bishops.
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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
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Heavenly home this is day 213 we're
reading paragraphs 1554 1561 as always
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today is day 2113 reading paragraphs
1554 to 1561 as I said um yesterday we
started talking not um yesterday just
yesterday yesterday we started we
continued yesterday talking about the
sacrament of holy orders and the
recognition that the ways in which the
priest represents Christ the head he
acts in Persona christe capitis also
he's been given a power but that power
is to serve and that's highly highly
important the priest continues to be
flawed the priest continues to be broken
in many ways but at the same time he's
given the spirit of God in a unique way
to act in Persona chrisy capitis in the
person of Christ the head now today
we're going on to talk about the begin
talking about the three degrees of the
sacrament of holy orders so the
episcopate the presbyterate and the
diaconate today we're just going to talk
about the episcopate the the B basically
being Bishops we're going to talk about
the fullness of the sacrament of holy
orders Episcopal ordination so the
bishop in the bishop he participates
fully in that one great High priesthood
of Jesus we're talk about that today
tomorrow we'll talk about the
presbyterate the next day the diaconate
but today fancy word episcopate and so
how the bishop participates in the
fullness of Christ's priesthood so let's
as we launch into today let us just
gather ourselves in the power of the
Holy Spirit the name of Jesus Christ and
present ourselves to God the father as
we pray Father in heaven we give you
praise and glory thank you thank you so
much for bringing us to this day thank
you for bringing us into your church and
for giving us the gift of holy orders
thank you for giving us the gift of our
local bishop and the universal Bishop
our Holy Father the pope we ask that you
please on this day please bless this man
in a powerful and unique way you've
called him to serve you've called him to
participate fully as fully as possible
in your great priesthood your high
priesthood please preserve and protect
him give him Zeal and love Lord God make
up for what he lacks and give him every
good gift that he can teach sanctify and
govern your church as you would teach
sanctify and govern your church we pray
for him and all Bishops in jesus' name
Amen in the name of the father and of
the son and of the holy spirit amen it
1561 The Three Degrees of the sacrament
of holy orders the divinely instituted
ecclesiastical Ministry is exercised in
different degrees by those who even from
ancient times have been called bishops
priests and deacons Catholic Doctrine
expressed in the Liturgy the magisterium
and the constant practice of the church
recognizes that there are two degrees of
ministerial participation in the
priesthood of Christ the episcopacy and
the presbyterate the diaconate is
intended to help and serve them for this
reason the term sacros in current usage
denotes Bishops and Priests but not
deacons yet Catholic Doctrine teaches
that the degrees of Priestly
participation episcopate and
presbyterate and the degree of service diaconate
diaconate
are all three conferred by a sacramental
act called ordination that is by the
sacrament of holy
orders as St Ignatius of Antioch wrote
let everyone rever the deacons as Jesus
Christ the bishop as the image of the
father and the presor as the Senate of
God and the Assembly of the Apostles for
without them one cannot speak of the
church Episcopal ordination fullness of
the sacrament of holy
orders amongst those various offices
which have been exercised in the church
from the earliest times the chief Place
according to the witness of tradition is
held by the function of those who
through their appointment to the dignity
and responsibility of Bishop and in
virtue consequently of The Unbroken
succession going back to the beginning
are regarded as transmitters of the
apostolic line to fulfill their exalted
Mission the apostles were endowed by
Christ with a special outpouring of the
Holy Spirit coming upon them and by the
imposition of hands they passed on to
their auxiliaries the gift of the spirit
which is transmitted down to our day
through Episcopal
consecration the second Vatican Council
teaches that the fullness of the
sacrament of holy orders is conferred by
Episcopal consecration that fullness
namely which both in the lurgical
tradition of the church and the language
of the fathers of the church is called
the high priesthood the ammi Suma of the Sacred
Sacred
Ministry Episcopal consecration confers
together with the office of sanctifying
also the offices of teaching and ruling
in fact by the imposition of hands and
through the words of the consecration
the grace of the holy spirit is given
and a sacred character is impressed in
such wise that Bishops in an eminent and
visible manner take the place of Christ
himself teacher Shepherd and priest and
act as his representative in Aus Persona
aant by virtue therefore of the Holy
Spirit who has been given to them
Bishops have been constituted true and
authentic teachers of the faith faith
and have been made pontiffs and pastors
one is constituted a member of the
Episcopal body in virtue of the
sacramental Consecration and by the
hierarchical communion with the head and
members of the college the character and
collegial nature of the Episcopal order
are evidenced among other ways by the
church's ancient practice which calls
for several Bishops to participate in
the consecration of a new bishop in our
day the lawful ordination of a bishop
requires a special intervention of the
bishop of Rome because he is is the
Supreme visible Bond of the communion of
the particular churches in the one
church and the guarantor of their
freedom as Christ's vicer each Bishop
has the pastoral care of the particular
Church entrusted to him but at the same
time he bears collegially with all his
brothers in the episcopacy the
solicitude for all the churches the wi
Bishop is the lawful Pastor only of the
portion of the flock entrusted to his
care as a legitimate successor of the
Apostles he is by Divine institution and
precept responsible with the other
Bishops for the apostolic mission of the
church the above considerations explain
why the Eucharist celebrated by the
bishop has a quite special significance
as an expression of the church gathered
around the altar with the one who
represents Christ the Good Shepherd and
head of his church
presiding right there we are day 213
paragraphs 1554 to 1561 just this is I
don't know I don't know if you're
approaching this like I'm approaching
this this is just just one of those as
we unpack the sacrament of holy orders
it is kind of kind of like anointing of
the sick maybe like matrimony coming up
soon one of those sacraments that maybe
you don't do a lot of thinking about
maybe I don't do a lot of thinking about
at least not in this particular way I
reflect on my own priesthood a lot but
not necessarily on here is the way in
which God has established established
his church in this in this way and also
these details that just I'm reminded of
many of the details some of them I I
learned at some point in school but I'm
reminded of them in such a way they just
kind of get my heart on fire a little
bit and just as an example you know in
paragraph 1554 it highlights that yeah
from ancient times this ecclesial
Ministry divinely instituted right God
did this is exercised in bishops priests
and deacons and so this recognition that
here are two degrees of ministerial
participation in the priesthood of
Christ the episcopacy and the
presbyterate so the two degrees of
participation in priesthood are the bishop
bishop
and the priest like that and then the
diaconate the deacons are intended to
help and serve them now why why why does
they set my heart on fire not because
I'm like yeah man I made it not that at
all it it just get starts doing
something because I start making these
connections and or just I'm reminded of
the connections between what I just read
here is these degrees of holy orders and
here's this participation in the
ministerial priesthood of Jesus Christ
and here's the call to service by going
back to the Bible and remember when the
tribe of Levi was made the priests
essentially it wasn't the entire tribe
that was called to serve at the altar it
was yeah some of the people those of the
household of Aaron they were going to be
the priests they were going to be the
ones who offer the sacrifice the other
Levites who had different degrees right
different families and some of them were
in charge of the vessels some of them
were in charge of the tent some of them
were in charge of service right so all
of these different degrees that were
there even in the old Covenant
priesthood and here we have in this new
covenant priesthood these different
degrees and it's just one of those
things just reminds me of wow even back
when God himself established the
levitical priesthood there were those
who would offer the sacrifice and there
were those who would serve those who are
offering the sacrifice and I just think
wow this is amazing you know just really
incredible I don't know if that's if
that's something exciting for you it is
very exciting for me just to recognize
that this is something something the
priesthood that Jesus Christ gives to us
the New Testament priesthood has its
root and seeds in the old Covenant and
this is the Fulfillment you know Jesus
is the absolute fulfillment but he gives
the priesthood to us to continue to
serve the church in fact as this quote
from St Ignatius of Antioch is is so
clear about now St Ignatius of Antioch
he died roughly around the year 107 1110
somewhere in there so right away I mean
this is St Ignatius anoch the tradition
says that he's a disciple of St polycarp
and St polycarp is a disciple of St John
the Evangelist so the one who wrote the
Gospel of John in the Book of Revelation
was taught polycarp who taught Ignatius
and here's what Ignatius says let
everyone rever the deacons as Jesus
Christ the bishop as the image of the
father and the presbyter as the Sant of
God in the Assembly of the Apostles okay
so you have deacons Bishop priests in
this last sentence he says for without
them one cannot speak of the church
this is kind of a big deal without them
one cannot speak of the church without
Bishop priest and Deacon you don't have
a church why because you need the bishop
priest and Deacon well you need to the
bishop and priest at least to have the
Eucharist you cannot speak of the church
without talking about the episcopacy the
presbyterate and the
diaconate and this is you know year 107
give or take and that is I don't know
about you but that that's pretty
remarkable for me because it reminds us
that yeah the priesthood was not a
latter invention this has its roots in
the old Covenant it's fulfilled in Jesus
and from the very very beginning is
given to us and not just because of the
Eucharist although that's a that's a
really clear Point really clear exercise
and function of the sacrament of holy
orders but the other two degrees too
right so here's the bishop he has the
fullness of holy orders and what is his
his triple primary Mission trary we'll
say TR new word trymary Mission his
triple mission is the office of
sanctifying teaching and governing in
paragraph 1558 it says this so clearly
and we're reminded of this because this
is kind of a thing that hopefully we all
know about but the bishop is supposed to
be the one who's given this office of
sanctifying right so you know bringing
the people of God to God and bringing
God to the people of God right
sanctifying teaching that that one of
his jobs is to continue to teach and and
there are so many great great Bishops
who do that so well they they try to
communicate in such a way that just
brings God's word to people brings God's
word alive to people I have a bishop
like that right now who's just so
incredible about just teaching and
reminding all of the people in our dasis
of the fact that no this is the mission
of Jesus it is alive and well right now
so sanctifying teaching and also
governing and that that's the thing the
it's the role of priest prophet and King
right so priest sanctifying Prophet
teaching and governing King and we have
to recognize that that when when the
bishop exercises those things when he
actually makes a declaration in our
dases and says okay y'all we're going to
do this or he has to make hard statement
about you know I don't know a public
figure who's who's making a public sin
or even a movement in our culture that
goes contrary to the gospel and calling
Catholics away from that movement and
towards the gospel like he has to do
that that is that's the task he's been
given to do as part of that primary task
right the the triple office of
sanctifying teaching and governing he
has to do this and if he doesn't do that
if he doesn't do that he does doesn't do
it at the risk of his own soul and at
the risk of Every Soul entrusted to him
you know the bishop is responsible for
every soul in his dasis it goes on to
say here in paragraph 1560 it does talk
about the fact that as Christ vicker
each Bishop has the pastoral care of the
particular Church entrusted to him so
yeah he has to take care of the dases of
Sacramento or the dases of Omaha or the
dases of duth he has take care of that
but he's not just responsible for the
Catholics in that dicese he's actually
spiritually responsible for every person
in that
dicese now that is that's one of the
reasons why I I believe it's one of the
reasons why scripture
says one should not aspire to be a
teacher my brethren that that sense of
in James chapter 3 I think it is don't
aspire to be a teacher because You' be
liable to a a more strict
judgment and there's something about the
office of Bishop that triple office of
sanctifying teaching governing that
carries a lot of
responsibility and so yes I mean if he
says yes to that then that's the
responsibility he said yes to just like
man the the office of parent right the
office of father or mother that carries
so much responsibility and yet here are
these moms and dads all throughout the
world all throughout our country all
throughout the church that have said yes
to this and so it's like oh okay all of
us saying yes to responsibility all of
us saying yes to the call of Jesus and
that's the crazy thing is that in this
first you know most full participation
in Christ priesthood of the episcopacy
right being a bishop as well as the
priesthood and diaconate as well as
being a mom or a dad husband and wife as
well as being a true teacher if you want
to be if you're a teacher or anyone who
is responsible for other people in any
whatever state in life we recognize that
wow we're liable to a greater judgment
if you're responsible for anyone we're
liable to a greater judgment which is
one of the reasons why we're just so so
grateful to the Lord for having called
these men to be Bishops to be our Bishop
and that's also one of the reasons why
not only do we have to pray for each
other pray for moms and dads who are
responsible for their kids pray for
deacons and Priests who are responsible
for their parishes but also pray for our
Bishops who are responsible for their
entire dases responsible for for every
soul in the borders and boundaries of
their dases we we have to pray for them
because this is a dangerous world and
this world needs we need holy Shepherds
that's that's the fact of the matter
every one of us could probably name
here's here's a a bad a deacon who you
know hurt us a priest to hurt us uh
Bishop who hurt us sometimes in small
ways sometimes in massively massively horrible
horrible
ways but we all need each other we all
need God's grace that's one of the
reasons why at the end of every episode
I ask for your prayers because I'm also
in need of God's grace I'm also in need
of prayers and so is your Bishop so
let's make a commitment today to pray
for our local Bishop to pray for our
Holy Father and pray for each
other I am praying for you please pray
for me my name is father Mike I cannot
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