Day 240: Erroneous Judgment of Conscience
The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz)
Ascension
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🗓️ 28 August 2023
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
It is possible for our moral conscience to remain in ignorance for a variety of reasons. Fr. Mike delves into the sources of errors of judgment in moral conduct and how habitual sin blinds our conscience. As we wrap up this article, Fr. Mike reminds us that a well-formed conscience sets us free and gives us the power to do what we ought. Today’s readings are Catechism paragraphs 1790-1802.
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 Any Year Podcast, |
| 0:09.0 | where we encounter God's plan of sheer goodness for us, revealed in Scripture and passed down to the tradition of the Catholic faith. |
| 0:15.0 | The Catechism Any Year is brought to you by Ascension. In 365 days, we'll read through the Catechism of the Catholic Church |
| 0:21.0 | discovering our identity in God's family as we journey together to our heavenly home. This is day 240, |
| 0:26.0 | where reading paragraphs of 1790 to 1802 is a little bit of nuggets in there today. As always, I'm using the ascension edition of the Catechism, |
| 0:33.0 | which includes the foundations of faith approach, but you can follow along with any recent version of the Catechism of the Catholic Church. |
| 0:38.0 | You can also download your own Catechism in a year reading plan by visiting ascensionpress.com slash C-I-Y, |
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| 0:47.0 | Today's day 240, you just want to have a quick thank you for all those who have supported the production of this podcast, |
| 0:52.0 | with your prayers, your financial gifts. Literally, literally, we couldn't do this without you. |
| 0:56.0 | We couldn't get to day 240, that's for sure. Reading paragraphs, as I said, 1790 to 1802, |
| 1:00.0 | where we're talking about today is an erroneous judgment. We always must obey the certain judgment of our conscience. |
| 1:06.0 | If we were deliberately act against it, we condemn ourselves. Okay, so that's the key, though. |
| 1:11.0 | We have to always obey the certain judgment of our conscience. If I knew something, |
| 1:16.0 | the wrong thing to do, I was completely convinced of this, and it would be the wrong thing to do, |
| 1:20.0 | and if I deliberately acted against that, I would be condemning myself. |
| 1:24.0 | Yet, it can happen that the moral conscience remains in ignorance and makes erroneous judgments. |
| 1:30.0 | Because we're talking about that today, let us open ourselves to the Holy Spirit and call upon |
| 1:35.0 | God our Father in Jesus' name to send that spirit among us. Let's pray now. |
| 1:39.0 | Father in heaven, we give you praise, we give you glory, we ask you to please open our minds |
| 1:44.0 | so that we can truly apprehend the truth, we can truly apprehend the good, the beautiful, |
| 1:49.0 | and give us hearts that are in wills that are strong and courageous, |
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