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 it down through

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In 365 days, we'll read through the Catechism of the Catholic Church discovering our identity and God's family as we journey together toward our heavenly home. This is Day 249. We're reading paragraphs 1877 to 1885. As always, I am using the Ascension edition of the Catechism, which includes a foundations of faith approach, but you can follow along with any recent version of the Catechism, the Catholic Church. You can also download your own catechism in a year reading plan by visiting

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updates and daily notifications. Today is day 249. We are reading chapter 2. So we've been,

you know, on this pillar of three for quite a while now. It's been a number of days talking about human dignity today and for the next number of days. We're going to talk about community. And this is, I think this is pretty remarkable because we're kind of taking a step, I want to say we're taking a step back, but we're taking a kind of a macro perspective. You know, I think when we look at human person, human dignity that comes along with a human person, we have freedom, we need to develop our virtues. That's, that's one thing. I think I could be wrong. Maybe it's just me. I think that as Christians, as Catholics, we're like, yeah, that makes a ton of sense. The human person, we need to grow, we need to develop. We need to use our freedom for good, right? That freedom is the ability, the power to do what I ought, and so I develop

virtues. But we are also called to be living in community as human beings. We're made for

community. And this is paragraph 1879 says, the human person needs to live in society goes on to say society is not

for him an extraneous addition but a requirement of his nature so this is this is necessary for us to live

in community and we're going to talk about that again for the next number of days before we talk about

salvation and I just want to kind of set the stage for us.

So we're talking today about the person and society. We're going to go on to participation in social life in the next couple days and like looking at authority and the common good.

We're going to look at do I have a responsibility to participate in governance? We have a responsibility

to participate in the way that my society is run.

And the answer is yes.

We're looking at social justice as we continue to look at at this dimension of the fact

that we're called to live in community.

We're going to look at equality and differences.

We're going to look at human solidarity that we're all connected.

And then we're going to start talking human solidarity, that we're all connected. And then we're

going to start talking in chapter three about God's salvation. And it's just, I believe, I just think

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