Hi, my name's Father Mike Schmitz, and you're listening to the Catechism in a Year podcast,

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subscribe in your podcast app for daily notifications. Today, we are reading, as I said, the second

half of the prologue. So basically paragraphs 11 through 25. As I mentioned yesterday, kind of like syllabus day.

Or say, okay, here is what the catechism is in the first place. And here is why it is in the first place.

Now today, we're going to be covering a couple different things. Those things we're talking about are

why did they make the catechism? Who are the people that the catechism was written to talk to? Who's the intended readership? Also, the structure of the catechism. There are four pillars, and we're going to talk about those four pillars, what they are and why they are. Also, the church wants to offer some practical directions for using the catechism, meaning, yeah, on the sides of

your catechism, you'll notice little numbers. What are those numbers? What do they refer to?

They also note that sometimes it's a large font, sometimes it's small font. Why is that? And then lastly,

the invitation that the church is throwing out there saying, okay, this is the catechism that we made.

And what's going to happen is, based off of this the catechism that we made. And what's going to

happen is based off of this universal catechism, there are going to be other, like, more local

catechisms. That was the idea when this catechism, the universal catechism, was originally

made. It was, okay, take this, this massive summary, that's universal, and then apply it to your local community. You can make

catechisms for young people, catechisms for old people, catechisms for all the sorts of people. And that's kind of the idea. So that's what we're going to be covering today. One thing to note is that we're also going to be looking at this thing called the Roman catechism. So it's going to refer to that at the very end of our reading today. It's going to talk about the Roman catechism.

What is that? That is the Catechism that came out of the Council of Trent back in the 1500s. I think it was maybe 1566, something like that. You have to quote me on that. You actually could because I just checked Wikipedia. And that's what it told me is that the Roman Catechism, which will be quoted at the very end of our

reading today, was published in 1566 basically as a result or as a response to the questions

people were asking as a result of the Protestant Reformation.

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