Day 253: Participation in Public Life

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

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🗓️ 10 September 2023

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

The Catechism has shown us how the common good begins with the good of the individual. It further shows us that each individual can participate in the pursuit of the common good for all—and that this participation is not optional, but an obligation. Fr. Mike explains the nature of this obligation in quite simple terms: “see a need, fill a need.” Today’s readings are Catechism paragraphs 1913-1927.

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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Please note: The Catechism of the Catholic Church contains adult themes that may not be suitable for children - parental discretion is advised.

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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,
0:09.3	where we encounter God's plan of your goodness for us, revealed in Scripture and passed down
0:13.6	through the tradition of the Catholic faith. The Catechism in a year is brought to you by Ascension.
0:17.2	In 365 days, we'll read through the Catechism of the Catholic Church discovering our identity
0:21.7	in God's family as we journey together toward a heavenly home. This is day 253 we are reading
0:26.5	paragraphs 1913 to 1927 as always I am using the Ascension edition of the Catechism, which includes
0:32.8	the foundations of faith approach, but you can follow along with any recent version of the
0:35.9	Catechism of the Catholic Church. You can also download your own Catechism in a year reading plan
0:39.6	by visiting AscensionPress.com slash C.I.Y. Lastly, you can click follow or subscribe to
0:44.0	your podcast app for daily updates. The limit of vacations today is day 253. We're reading 1913 to
0:49.2	1927. It's the end of this little section, the section we talk about, participation in social life.
0:54.2	We talked about a 40 a couple days ago yesterday we talked about the common good and today we're
0:58.0	talking about responsibility and participation that essentially everyone to whatever degree they're
1:02.8	able to whatever how about this like a personal all of us to whatever degree we are able
1:08.2	must participate according to our position and role in promoting the common good. This is kind
1:13.3	of baseline humanity. So remember we're talking about human dignity the dignity of the human
1:17.9	individual the human person that's so good, but we need a community and as part of community
1:22.7	we need to participate in that community. We can't just merely be recipients of the benefits
1:26.8	of the common good. We have to be contributors in some ways as well. We can't just be consumers
1:31.2	that are just saying here we have to participate and take personal responsibility for whatever we
1:37.5	can do. So we're going to talk about that today. It's pretty straightforward. I'm pretty pretty
1:41.0	clear, but it involves also a deeper sense of conversion, which is also why we're going through
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