Day 244: The Virtue of Charity (2024)

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

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🗓️ 31 August 2024

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Summary

The greatest of all the theological virtues is charity. Fr. Mike explains that charity, or love, is to love God above all things for his own sake and to love our neighbor as ourselves. This includes loving our enemies and also obeying God's commandments, two actions that are not always easy. Most importantly, today's readings remind us that true charity is not loving the Father as servants in fear or as mercenaries looking for a reward but rather as his beloved children responding to him who "first loved us." Today's readings are Catechism paragraphs 1822-1829.

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0:00.0	My name is Father Mike Schmitz and you're listening to the Catechism
0:08.1	any year podcast where we encounter God's plan of sheer goodness for us,
0:11.4	revealed in scripture and passed down to the
0:13.7	tradition of the Catholic faith. The Catechism in years brought to you by
0:16.5	ascension. In 365 days we'll read through the Catechism of the Catholic
0:20.5	Church discovering our identity in God's family as we journey
0:23.8	together toward our heavenly home this is day 244 we are reading paragraphs 1822 to 1829
0:29.2	as always I am using the ascension edition of Catechism, which includes a foundations of
0:33.7	faith approach, but you can follow along with any recent version of the Catechism of the Catholic
0:37.4	Church. You can also download your own Catechism in a year reading plan by visiting
0:41.2	Ascension Press.com slash C IY.
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0:46.6	and daily notifications, because today it's day 244.
0:49.9	As I said, we were reading paragraphs 1822 to 1829 yesterday we talked about the
0:53.6	virtue of hope before that we talked about the virtue of faith so guess what
0:57.0	class we are talking about the virtue of charity one thing right off the bat
1:01.0	I think it's worth acknowledging that charity is love but it's a very particular kind of love in paragraph 1822 it says charity is the theological virtue by which we love God above all things for his own sake and our neighbor as
1:14.0	ourselves for the love of God. So as we'd launch in to love as we launch in to charity
1:18.6	let's call upon the God of love and that triune God the Trinity Trinity Father Son, Holy Spirit and ask him to be with us to give us his
1:25.9	Holy Spirit, to give us his blessing, to give us his love in this moment.
1:29.7	We pray Father in heaven, we know that you are love. We know that you are the fullness of
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