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

where we encounter God's plan of sure goodness for us, revealed in Scripture and passed down

to the tradition of the Catholic faith. The Catechism in a Year is brought to you by 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 235, we reading paragraphs 1739 to 1748.

As always, I'm using the Ascension edition of the Catechism, which includes the foundations of faith approach

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I recently read this myself because I lost my original copy. When I say lost it, I didn't really lose it.

I know where it is. I just don't have it with me. But I did it. And so I know it can be done even on day 235.

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Thank you again, you guys so much for being part of this day 235 for crying out loud. This is amazing.

I can almost do the math to see exactly how many days are left, 131? 130. That's it. Oh my gosh. You guys, you've done so well.

And thank you for being part of this. Thank you for your prayers and those who have supported us not only spiritually,

but also with your financial gifts. We couldn't do this without you. As I said, at State 235, we're talking about human freedom.

Yesterday was human freedom and responsibility that when we're given that responsibility, we have to use it.

We're given freedom. I mean, we have to use that. In fact, there are some threats to freedom. We're going to talk about that even a little bit more today.

But there are some things that can reduce our culpability. They can mitigate our responsibility when it comes to action, when it comes to choosing.

You know, remember, sin is God, I know what you want. And I'm going to freely choose to do something other than what you want, right?

That sense of I'm using my freedom. Now, if my freedom has been mitigated, then my responsibility is mitigated.

We talked about that yesterday. Today, we're going to talk about this. How human freedom factors in the economy of salvation.

We recognize that our our freedom because of sin is limited and fallible because our because of sin.

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