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 sheer 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 in God's family as we journey together toward our heavenly home. This is Day 237. We're reading paragraphs 1762 to 1775, all about the passions. 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 C-I-Y, and you can also click follow or subscribe in your podcast app for daily updates, daily notifications today is going to be the day. It's going to make it back to you. is day 237. Fairgoth's 1762, 1775, all be the day. Going to make it back to you. Day 237, paragraph 1762 to 1775,

all about the passions. In fact, about the morality of the passions. Yesterday, we had a chance,

oh man, how good is this? Yesterday we had a chance to talk about the sources of morality. What

makes an act good? What makes an act evil? What are the three components? Essential components

that make an immoral act, either morally good or morally bad. Remember, it's makes an act good, what makes an act evil, what are the three components, essential components

that make an immoral act, either morally good or morally bad. Remember, it was the object chosen,

the end or the intention, and then the circumstances. Today we're talking about some of that

inner world stuff, and the recognition is, what does term passion even mean? It's this. It's the term

passion belongs to the Christian

patrimony. So basically, feelings or passions are emotions or movements of the sensitive appetite

that gets more technical, hang on, that incline us to act or not to act in regard to something

felt or imagined to be good or evil. So there you go. The definition of passions is in paragraph

1763. If you want to take a look at that ahead of time or after the fact, either way, it's going to be great. Probably want to take a look at it a couple times because we recognize that these are feelings and that not just feeling, feelings. These are feelings that, what do you mean feeling feelings? I don't know what I mean. I mean, these are feelings. Again, they're natural components of the human psyche. And the sensitive

appetite, what do we mean by that? Well, we recognize that we have an appetite. We have a will, right?

The will is what enables me to choose. The appetite is what draws me. The appetite is what moves me. The appetite is that inner world, that

that thing that I want,

I grasp, I seek out after this thing. And the appetite, again, can be anything. It can be that

I long for honor. I long for fame. I long for love. Those things that we don't even will,

but we just simply experience. We feel them. That is the movement of the sensitive appetite that incline us

...