Day 16: Senses of Scripture
The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz)
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🗓️ 16 January 2023
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Summary
Fr. Mike examines the two senses of Scripture: the literal sense and the spiritual sense. Together, we further unpack the meaning of the literal sense of Scripture and the three subdivisions of the spiritual sense: the allegorical, the moral, and the anagogical senses. Fr. Mike provides us with scriptural examples of each of the four senses for us to fully comprehend the richness of God’s word. Today’s readings are Catechism paragraphs 115-119.
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Please note: The Catechism of the Catholic Church contains adult themes that may not be suitable for children - parental discretion is advised.
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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| 0:00.0 | I'm a name is Father Mike Schmitz and you're listening to the Catechism in the Year podcast, |
| 0:09.6 | where we encounter God's plan of sheer goodness for us, revealed in Scripture and passed down |
| 0:13.7 | through the tradition of the Catholic faith. The Catechism in the Year is brought to you by ascension. |
| 0:18.0 | In 365 days, we'll read through the Catechism of the Catholic Church, discovering our identity |
| 0:22.7 | in God's family as we journey together toward our heavenly home in his day 16, |
| 0:26.7 | we're reading paragraphs, 115 to 119, just a couple of things before we get started. |
| 0:31.6 | I'm using the ascension edition of the Catechism, which includes the foundations of faith approach, |
| 0:35.6 | but you can follow along with any recent version of the Catechism of the Catholic Church. |
| 0:39.3 | Also, to download your own Catechism in a Year reading plan, you can visit ascensionpress.com, |
| 0:44.2 | slash C-I-Y. That can be kind of helpful because you can see, okay, where are we in the pillar? |
| 0:49.0 | Where are we in what section? Where are we really talking about? That can be helpful. |
| 0:53.2 | Also, you can click follow or subscribe, or whatever the word is, and your podcast app for daily |
| 0:58.5 | notifications. A couple of things, just as we continue to move through the Catechism today, |
| 1:03.9 | I mentioned this I think yesterday at the end of the day, but it is so important. Here we are |
| 1:08.1 | Day 16. Yesterday was the first day after the second week, Day 15. That's how weeks work, |
| 1:13.8 | there's two of those weeks together. There's 14 plus 115. Here we are Day 16, and the recognition, |
| 1:20.0 | of course, is that we're journeying as a community. I think one of the ways, maybe one of the only ways |
| 1:26.0 | we're truly going to be able to get through this Catechism because it can be dense. Even today, |
| 1:31.1 | the readings from paragraphs 115 to 119, that's not a lot. I think that's five if I can count |
| 1:35.6 | correctly. Those paragraphs, they're simple, but they're also dense, right? And because of that, |
| 1:40.8 | it can be a little bit of a challenge to say, okay, I'm going to keep showing up. I'm going to keep |
| 1:44.0 | pressing play. But the fact that here you are on Day 16, your pressing play means not only, |
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