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 your goodness for us, revealed in scripture, and passed down

through 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 and God's family as we journey together toward our heavenly home.

This is Day 236.

We're reading paragraphs 1749 to 1761, as always.

I am 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 in a year reading plan by visiting ascensionpress.com slash CIY. And lastly, you can click follow or subscribe in your podcast app for daily updates, daily notifications. Thank you for all of you who have subscribed. Also, all those who have like made like rank to this or what do you call it rated this, giving it score you know whatever that that's called where you you give it like five stars you know if give it one I guess part of me would think why you got day 236 but nonetheless all of you who have you know given the thumbs up to this or shared with other people I know there are so many people who are actually I know it's day 236 for us right now but there are some who on our day 236, it's their day one, because people start this all of the time. And so whoever that person is, let's pray for them and pray for ourselves as we launch forward in this next section on this third pillar of the catagism. Article 4, Morality of Human Acts against paragraph 1749 to the end, to 1761,

it's kind of the whole article, not kind of the whole article, it is the whole article.

And basically, it talks about the sources of morality.

Basically, the morality of human acts depend on the three elements, right?

So the object chosen, like the thing itself, the end in view or the intention and then the

circumstances of the action so this is in so many ways if you want to break it down and say how can

i think about moral choices critically clearly without just kind of like i don't know i kind of

have general idea of right or wrong or kind of have maybe there are some cases where you did the right

thing but you didn't do it for the right reason maybe that's still okay no we recognize this that

that the morality of human acts depend on these three aspects these three elements one the object

chosen the the good toward which we actually direct ourselves number two the end in view or the intention, like, what's the

reason? What are you going for here? Thirdly, the circumstances of the action. And so we'll talk

about that more deeply as we continue moving on today. We have article four. And as I said,

we're going to pray for all those who are just starting today. Today's there day one on our day

236. And we'll also pray for ourselves

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