Hi, my name's 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 journeyed together toward our heavenly home. This is day 240. We're reading paragraphs 1790 to 1802. Is a little bit of nuggets in there today. As always, I'm using the Ascension edition of the Catechism, which includes the Foundations of Faith approach. 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 cI. And you can click follow or subscribe in your podcast app for daily updates and daily notifications. Today's day 240. You just want to have a quick thank you for all those who have supported the production of this podcast with your prayers, your financial gifts. Literally, literally, we couldn't do this without you. We couldn't get to day 240, that's for sure. Reading paragraphs, as I said, 1790 to 1802, what we're talking about today is an erroneous judgment. We always must obey the certain judgment of our conscience. If we were deliberately act against it, we condemn ourselves. Okay, so that's the key though.

We have to always obey the certain judgment of our conscience.

If I knew something would be the wrong thing to do, I was completely convinced of this,

and it would be the wrong thing to do, and if I deliberately acted against that, I would

be condemning myself.

And yet, it can happen that the moral conscience remains in ignorance and makes erroneous

judgments. Because we're talking about that today, let us open ourselves to the Holy Spirit and call upon

God our Father, in Jesus' name, to send that spirit among us. Let's pray now. Father in heaven,

we give you praise, we give you glory, we ask you to please open our minds so that we

can truly apprehend the truth. We can truly apprehend the good, the beautiful, and give us hearts

that are in wills that are strong and courageous that can actually choose what we know is true

and refuse to do what we know is evil. Help us always to turn away from evil, even in small ways, Lord God. There are some

things that are obviously evil, some things that are that we would say are beyond the pale. We would

never choose those. Lord, we ask you to please help us to choose against those when they're small. Help us to

choose against those when they're little. Help us to choose against those when we just tolerate

evil in our lives. Help us to not tolerate evil in our lives. Help us to not tolerate

evil in our lives. The evil that we not only tolerate, but sometimes we delight in. Help us to

never do that. Help us to delight in you. Help us to delight in virtue. Help us to delight in truth and

goodness and beauty. In Jesus name we pray. Amen. In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the

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