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

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Ascension. In 365 days, we'll read through the Catechism of the Catholic Church discovering our identity in God's family as we journey together toward our heavenly home. This is Day 223. We're reading paragraphs 1633 to 1637. As always, I'm using the Ascension edition of the Catechism, which includes the foundations of faith approach, but you can follow along with any recent version of the Catechism of the Catholic Church. You can also download your own catechism into your reading

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podcast app for daily updates or daily notifications because today is 8223. We're looking at mixed

marriages and disparity of cult. We looked at yesterday the invitation, the necessity of matrimonial consent,

and what matrimonial consent actually is.

Today, we're looking at what happens when there are some irregularities.

We'll say it like this.

Irregularities that do not prohibit people from entering into marriage with each other,

but still are things that we need to be aware of.

So the two kind of things we're looking at here are mixed marriages and disparity of cult,

easy for me to say.

A mixed marriage is what?

Marriage between a Catholic and a baptized non-Catholic.

Disparity of cult would be between a Catholic and a non-baptized person.

And so we're looking at some of those, not only how can couples move forward in this, but also the question of what are some of the issues that would come up? Why does the church even have teaching on this? Why does the church even have, I don't want to say an opinion because that's not, there's some things that are disciplines of the church that might be like a theological opinion. There's other things that are like, here's some, here's some doctrine, here's more serious teaching, more dogma, kind of a situation. But why does the church have a teaching when it comes to marriages that involve mixed marriages or disparative cult? We're looking at some of those today in our five short paragraphs. So as we jump in, let us call upon the Lord and enter into his presence in this moment. Wherever you're at right now, just recognize that the prayer that we're praying at the beginning of these episodes is not perfunctory, right? It's not just kind of like this throwaway thing. It actually is all of us, not only calling to mind God, but reminding ourselves that we are in God's presence

in this moment, wherever you're at right now, whether you're just sitting on your couch listening to this, or if you're in your car, or if you're out for a walk, out for a run, whatever you're doing, God is present. And so when we pray, what we're reminding us is that God is present, but also we're calling upon his presence in a unique and particular way. So let's pray. Let's not wait for that.

Father in heaven. reminding us is that God is present, but also we're calling upon his presence in a unique and

particular way. So let's pray. Let's not wait for that. Father in heaven, we give you glory. We thank you

for bringing us to this day. We thank you for the gift of life. We thank you for your teaching.

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