Summit of Faith
Learn the answer with us, one short lesson a day, straight from the Catechism of the Catholic Church and the Bible.
Why the name? The Church calls the Eucharist “the source and summit of the Christian life.” CCC 1324
Today
Monday of the 28th Week in Ordinary TimeMonday is for what we believe
St. Carlo Acutis
Born in London in 1991 and raised in Milan, he loved video games, soccer and, above all, the Eucharist. He built a website about Eucharistic miracles and called the Eucharist his “highway to heaven.” He died of leukemia at 15 in 2006 and was canonized in 2025.
“Now this is eternal life, that they should know you, the only true God, and the one whom you sent, Jesus Christ.”
“God, infinitely perfect and blessed in himself, in a plan of sheer goodness freely created man to make him share in his own blessed life.”
In plain words: God didn't need us. He made us because he wanted to share his own happiness with us.
Learn the Faith
The Catechism has 2,865 numbered paragraphs, built on four pillars (CCC 13). At about eight paragraphs a day, we walk the whole thing in a year.
Who God is, who Jesus is, and what the Church is, explained through the Creed.
The Mass and the seven sacraments, where Christ meets us today.
The Beatitudes and the Ten Commandments, and why love is the whole law.
How to talk with God, ending with the Our Father line by line.
Saints
Feast days in the coming weeks, following the calendar used in the United States.
The teenage saint of the internet age, devoted to the Eucharist. His feast is kept in Assisi and Milan and by communities that ask for it.
Carmelite reformer, mystic and Doctor of the Church who taught that prayer is friendship with God.
Bishop and martyr who wrote letters to the early churches on his way to die in Rome.
Jesuit missionaries and their companions, martyred in North America in the 1640s.
Pope from 1978 to 2005, who told the world, “Be not afraid.”
Two of the twelve Apostles, honored together.
Every saint in heaven, known and unknown. A solemnity, and this year it falls on a Sunday.
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Send a question about the faith. The best ones become short videos, answered from the Catechism and Scripture.
This week's question: Can Catholics get tattoos?
Why I'm Catholic
Someone once asked me what the core of being Catholic is. I'm Catholic, and I struggled to answer.
So I decided to find out, properly, from the source. Summit of Faith is me learning the Catechism and the Bible one short piece at a time, and sharing each piece as I go. If you've ever been asked a question about your faith and wished you had a better answer, you're in the right place.
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