Day 237: The Morality of the Passions

The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz)

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🗓️ 25 August 2023

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Summary

Together, we examine The Morality of The Passions. Fr. Mike unpacks and explores the different elements of the definition of “passions”. He emphasizes that while passions, themselves, are neither good nor bad, there still is a moral component to them. It is what we do with our passions that can either contribute to virtue or vice. Today’s readings are Catechism paragraphs 1762-1775.

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,
0:09.2	where we encounter God's plan of sheer goodness for us, revealed in Scripture, and passed
0:13.2	down to the tradition of the Catholic faith. The Catechism in a year is brought to you
0:16.6	by Ascension. In 365 days, we'll read through the Catechism of the Catholic Church discovering
0:21.8	our identity in God's family as we journey together toward our Heavenly Home. This is day
0:26.6	237. We're reading paragraphs 1762 to 1775 all about the passions. As always, I am using
0:33.4	the ascension edition of the Catechism, which includes the foundation of faith approach, but
0:36.6	you can follow along with any recent version of the Catechism of the Catholic Church. You
0:39.9	can also download your own Catechism in a year reading plan by visiting ascensionpress.com
0:44.1	slash C-I-Y. And you can also click follow or subscribe to your podcast app for daily
0:48.1	updates, daily notifications, today is going to be the day. I'm going to make it back
0:52.4	to you, if they do 137, paragraph 1762 to 1775 all about the passions. In fact, about the
0:59.4	morality of the passions. Yesterday, we had a chance, oh man, how good is this? Yesterday,
1:03.8	we had a chance to talk about the sources of morality, what makes an act good, what makes
1:07.7	an act evil, what are the three components, essential components that make a moral act
1:12.6	either morally good or morally bad. Remember, it was the object chosen, the end or the
1:17.2	intention, and then the circumstances. Today, we're talking about some of that inner world
1:20.8	stuff. And the recognition is, what does term passion even mean? It's this. It's the
1:26.0	term passion belongs to the Christian patrimony. So basically, feelings or passions are emotions
1:31.0	or movements of the sensitive appetite that gets more technical, technical hang on, that
1:36.0	incline us to act or not to act in regard to something felt or imagined to be good or evil.
1:40.9	So there you go. The definition of passions is in paragraph 1763. If you want to take
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