To Be a Christian: The Anglican Catechism in a Year
In To Be a Christian: The Anglican Catechism in a Year podcast, we are reading To Be a Christian in a year. Each day we will read one catechism question and answer as well as the scripture readings and conclude with a relevant collect from the Book of Common Prayer.
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- 2022 - 2025
Day 134. What benefits do you receive through partaking of this sacrament?
Today is day 134 and we are studying The Sacrament of Holy Communion.
134. What benefits do you receive through partaking of this sacrament?
As my body is nourished by the bread and wine, my soul i…
Day 133. What is the inward gift signified?
Today is day 133 and we are studying The Sacrament of Holy Communion.
133. What is the inward gift signified?
The inward gift signified is the Body and Blood of Christ, which are truly taken and rece…
Day 132. What is the outward and visible sign in Holy Communion?
Today is day 132 and we are studying The Sacrament of Holy Communion.
132. What is the outward and visible sign in Holy Communion?
The visible sign is bread and wine, which Christ commands us to re…
Day 131. Why did Christ institute the sacrament of Holy Communion?
Today is day 131 and we are studying The Sacrament of Holy Communion.
131. Why did Christ institute the sacrament of Holy Communion?
He instituted it for the continual remembrance of the sacrifice …
Day 130. What signs of the Holy Spirit’s work should you hope and pray to see as a result of your Baptism?
Today is day 130 and we are studying The Sacrament of Baptism.
130. What signs of the Holy Spirit’s work should you hope and pray to see as a result of your Baptism?
I should hope and pray that the…
Day 129. Why is it appropriate to baptize infants?
Today is day 129 and we are studying The Sacrament of Baptism.
129. Why is it appropriate to baptize infants?
Because it is a sign of God’s promise that they are embraced in the covenant community of…
Day 128. What is required of you when you come to be baptized?
Today is day 128 and we are studying The Sacrament of Baptism.
128. What is required of you when you come to be baptized?
Two things are required: repentance, in which I turn away from sin; and fai…
Day 127. What is the inward and spiritual grace given in Baptism?
Today is day 127 and we are studying The Sacrament of Baptism.
127. What is the inward and spiritual grace given in Baptism?
The inward and spiritual grace is death to sin and new birth to righteou…
Day 126. What is the outward and visible sign in Baptism?
Today is day 126 and we are studying The Sacrament of Baptism.
126. What is the outward and visible sign in Baptism?
The outward and visible sign is water, in which candidates are baptized “in the …
Day 125. How do these differ from the sacraments of the Gospel?
Today is day 125 and we are studying The Sacraments.
125. How do these differ from the sacraments of the Gospel?
They were not ordained by Christ as necessary to salvation, but arose from the pract…
Day 124. Are there other sacraments?
Today is day 124 and we are studying The Sacraments.
124. Are there other sacraments?
Other rites and institutions commonly called sacraments include confirmation (2 Timothy 1:6–7; Hebrews 6:1–2), …
Day 123. What sacraments were ordained by Christ?
Today is day 123 and we are studying The Sacraments.
123. What sacraments were ordained by Christ?
The two sacraments ordained by Christ that are “generally necessary to salvation” (1662 Catechism)…
Day 122. How should you receive the sacraments?
Today is day 122 and we are studying The Sacraments.
122. How should you receive the sacraments?
I should receive the sacraments by faith in Christ, with repentance and thanksgiving. Faith in Chris…
Day 121. What is a sacrament?
Today is day 121 and we are studying The Sacraments.
121. What is a sacrament?
A sacrament is an outward and visible sign of an inward and spiritual grace. God gives us the sign as a means by which…
Day 120. How should you live in light of this promise of unending life?
Today is day 120 and we are on the Third Article of the Apostles' Creed. Today we are on the eighteenth line: “And the Life Everlasting”.
120. How should you live in light of this promise of unendin…
Day 119. What do you know about the unending resurrected life of believers?
Today is day 119 and we are on the Third Article of the Apostles' Creed. Today we are on the eighteenth line: “And the Life Everlasting”.
119. What do you know about the unending resurrected life of…
Day 118. How should you live as you await the resurrection of your body?
Today is day 118 and we are on the Third Article of the Apostles' Creed. Today we are on the seventeenth line: “The Resurrection of the Body”.
118. How should you live as you await the resurrection …
Day 117. What do you know about the resurrected bodies of believers?
Today is day 117 and we are on the Third Article of the Apostles' Creed. Today we are on the seventeenth line: “The Resurrection of the Body”.
117. What do you know about the resurrected bodies of b…
Day 116. What is the resurrection of the body?
Today is day 116 and we are on the Third Article of the Apostles' Creed. Today we are on the seventeenth line: “The Resurrection of the Body”.
116. What is the resurrection of the body?
When the ri…
Day 115. Why will you die?
Today is day 115 and we are on the Third Article of the Apostles' Creed. Today we are on the seventeenth line: “The Resurrection of the Body”.
115. Why will you die?
Because sin and death now corru…