Day 231: Our Calling
The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz)
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🗓️ 19 August 2023
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
As we step into Part Three of the Catechism on How We Live, we begin with an overview of our high calling as sons and daughters of God. Truly our “first and last point of reference” will always be “Jesus Christ himself, who is ‘the way, and the Truth, and the life.’” Fr. Mike identifies for us that when most people say, “I can’t accept what the Church teaches”, it’s rarely about dogma, like the Trinity or the divinity of Christ. More often than not, it’s about Christian morality, and that’s the journey we’re embarking on. Today’s readings are Catechism paragraphs 1691-1698.
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 | Hi, my name is Father Mike Schmitz, and you're listening to the Catechism in a Year podcast, |
| 0:09.4 | where we encounter God's plan of sheer goodness for us, revealed in Scripture and passed down through |
| 0:13.7 | the tradition of the Catholic faith. The Catechism in a Year is brought to you by Ascension. |
| 0:17.3 | In 365 days, we'll read through the Catechism of the Catholic Church discovering our |
| 0:21.6 | identity in God's family. As we journey together to our heavenly home, this is day 231 |
| 0:26.6 | we're reading paragraphs 1691 to 1698. As always, I'm using the Ascension edition of the Catechism, |
| 0:32.8 | which includes the foundations of faith approach, but you can follow along with any recent version |
| 0:36.4 | of the Catechism of the Catholic Church. You can also download your own Catechism in a year reading |
| 0:40.4 | plan by visiting AscensionPress.com slash C-I-Y, and you can click follow or subscribe in your |
| 0:45.1 | podcast apps to receive daily updates, daily notifications to make sure you're subscribed. |
| 0:49.2 | It would be awesome. Yesterday, what was that? Man, Dr. Mary Healy, what a gift. I know people are like, |
| 0:55.7 | wow, that was a long, you only got a part of it. That was edited down from being massively long. |
| 1:02.4 | It was a long, long conversation, but so beautiful, so powerful. Not just because Dr. Healy is |
| 1:07.7 | incredibly smart and very much filled with the Holy Spirit. I don't know if you caught this, |
| 1:12.2 | but I was just in that room with her. She speaks with authority. It seems authority that comes |
| 1:16.7 | from the Holy Spirit is so powerful, but also because of the content. We're taking our next step |
| 1:21.1 | here today. Congratulations, by the way. They do 30 yesterday, 231 today of the third pillar. |
| 1:26.6 | Here we are on how we live. We talked about what we believe about how we worship now today. |
| 1:31.5 | We're starting to listen, actually, to what the Catechism says about how we live. What is our calling? |
| 1:37.3 | Now, tomorrow, we're going to talk about human dignity and that our vocation is life in the |
| 1:41.4 | Spirit. We start with the human dignity, dignity of the human person, but even before human dignity, |
| 1:46.6 | we recognize what is our high calling and we recognize, I'll say recognize twice, we note, |
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