Day 250: Conversion in Society (2025)
The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz)
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🗓️ 7 September 2025
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
Before we can see outward changes for the good in society, there must be inward conversion in the hearts of its members, so says the Catechism. Fr. Mike highlights the fact that societies are made up of people with both body and soul—and the soul is often overlooked. Because we are broken, there is a “permanent need” for our conversion, and any society that fails to take this into account is doomed to do violence to human dignity. Today’s readings are Catechism paragraphs 1886-1896.
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 in a Year podcast, where we |
| 0:09.8 | encounter God's plan of sheer goodness for us, revealed in scripture, and passed it down through the |
| 0:14.2 | tradition of the Catholic faith. The Catechism in Ere is brought to you by Ascension. In 365 days, |
| 0:19.1 | we'll read through the Catechism of the Catholic Church discovering our identity in God's family as we journey together toward our heavenly home. This is Day 250. We're reading paragraphs 1886 to 1896. As always, I'm using the Ascension edition of the Catechism, which includes the Foundations of Faith approach, but you can follow along with any recent version of the Catechism of the Catholic Church. You can also download your own catechism in your 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. Also just a quick thank you to all those who have supported the production of this podcast through your prayers. We can't do without them, your financial gifts. We couldn't do any of this without use. Thank you so much. Today's day |
| 0:37.7 | 250. We're reading... the production of this podcast through your prayers can't do without them your financial gifts we |
| 0:54.6 | couldn't do any of this without you thank you so much today's day 250 we're reading paragraphs |
| 0:58.6 | 1886 1896 1896 remember yesterday we started talking about the human community right we went |
| 1:03.6 | from individual human dignity talking about okay the person and society we need there's a communal |
| 1:09.2 | character of the human vocation there's a communal character of the human vocation. There's a |
| 1:12.0 | communal character of human nature even. And so we talked about that. We talked about how, again, |
| 1:17.7 | society is not optional. Society is not extraneous for us. It's a requirement of our nature |
| 1:22.4 | because we're made in God's image and likeness. We need each other. Also because if we're |
| 1:26.6 | going to accomplish God's will in this world, we need each other. Remember, Jesus Christ came to establish the |
| 1:31.5 | kingdom of heaven, right? The kingdom of God. Not simply, not simply, I want to save individual |
| 1:36.3 | sinners, but he came to establish a kingdom, a society, right? Some unique, mysterious community. |
| 1:43.7 | And so we're going to talk about that. |
| 1:44.7 | Also today, you know, as this next, the last piece of Article 1, the person in society, |
| 1:49.8 | we're going to talk about conversion and society. |
| 1:52.5 | And so one of the big statements we're leading off with the paragraph 1886 is society is |
| 1:57.5 | essential to the fulfillment of the human vocation. |
| 2:02.5 | But in that net, well, |
| 2:06.9 | the church doesn't say but, I'm going to say but, but to attain that aim, right? The fulfillment of the human vocation, which is society is essential towards. To attain this aim, respect must |
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