Day 239: The Formation of Conscience

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

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🗓️ 27 August 2023

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Together, with Fr. Mike, we unpack the formation of our conscience. Fr. Mike emphasizes that a well-formed conscience is one that is both “upright and truthful.” He also highlights the idea that a well-formed intellect is vital to having a well-formed conscience. We cannot just say something is either right or wrong, we have to understand why we think that. Today’s readings are Catechism paragraphs 1783-1789.

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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Please note: The Catechism of the Catholic Church contains adult themes that may not be suitable for children - parental discretion is advised.

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0:00.0	Hi, my name is Father Mike Schmitz and you're listening to The Catechism in the Year Podcast,
0:09.2	where we encounter God's plan of sheer goodness for us, revealed in Scripture and passed down
0:13.5	through the tradition of the Catholic faith. The Catechism in the Year is brought to you by Ascension.
0:17.2	In 365 days, we'll read through the Catechism of the Catholic Church discovering our identity
0:21.9	in God's family as we journey together toward our heavenly home this is day 239. We are reading
0:27.2	paragraphs 1783 to 1789. As always, I am using the ascension edition of the Catechism,
0:32.9	which includes the foundations of faith approach, but you can follow along with any recent version
0:36.6	of the Catechism of the Catholic Church. You can also download your own Catechism any year reading
0:41.0	plan by visiting ascensionpress.com slash C-I-Y. You can also click follow or subscribe in your
0:46.0	podcast app for daily updates and daily notifications today. It's going to be the day. It's the second
0:52.1	time I made that joke. I don't even know the songs from the 1990s. Day 239 and it is 1783 to 1789.
0:59.2	It even falls through on the joke. It's today is going to be the day I'm going to make it back to you.
1:02.4	Is that like, I don't know, it's a British band. I can't remember. Anyways, day 239. Good
1:08.2	and it's gracious. We're talking about conscience. We've been talking about conscience for a little
1:11.0	bit now and we're going to continue to talk about the formation of conscience. In the fact that
1:16.0	we already said this before is that we have a right to act in conscience and in freedom. So as
1:21.3	to personally make moral decisions, that's what we have. No one can force us to do something. And yet
1:25.2	conscience has to be formed. It can't be forced, but it has to be formed. It can't be coerced,
1:29.8	but it has to be formed. And so what is it informed with? It's informed with not only the intellectual
1:35.8	formation. Our conscience is also formed by personal formation. What I mean by that is
1:42.0	we all know what it is to know the right thing but to do the wrong thing, right? We know what it is
1:47.6	to have the intellectual knowledge about this. But conscience, remember, conscience is different.
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