Day 256: The Natural Moral Law

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

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🗓️ 13 September 2023

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Together, we begin the section on moral law, starting with natural moral law. Fr. Mike begins by emphasizing that we need both the law that guides us and God’s grace that sustains us in order to live out our call to beatitude. He also unpacks how natural moral law is written in the soul of each and every man to help him discern between good and evil. Today’s readings are Catechism paragraphs 1949-1960.

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,
0:09.6	where we encounter God's plan of sheer goodness for us, revealed in Scripture and passed down
0:13.9	through the tradition of the Catholic faith. The Catechism in a Year is brought to you by ascension.
0:17.6	In 365 days, we'll read through the Catechism of the Catholic Church discovering our identity and
0:22.8	God's family as we journey together toward our heavenly home. This is day 256. We are reading
0:27.4	paragraphs 1949 to 1960. As always, I am using the ascension edition of the Catechism,
0:32.7	which includes the foundations of faith approach, but you can follow along with any recent version
0:36.5	of the Catechism of the Catholic Church. You can also download your own Catechism in a Year
0:40.3	Reading Plan by visiting ascensionpress.com slash C-I-Y, and you can click follow or subscribe
0:45.2	on your podcast app for daily updates and daily notifications so you don't miss a day, or don't
0:50.0	miss an episode. And we are just launching into the next section. Chapter 3, in fact, God's salvation.
0:55.9	We're talking about law and grace, and so today we're going to be talking about the moral law,
0:59.6	and how there are various kinds of laws. They're all connected, but we're going to begin with
1:05.1	the natural moral law. So the natural moral law is what the church is classically called natural law.
1:11.2	It's not called natural law because it's like the law of nature. Sometimes people will confuse
1:15.0	that and say, well, the law of nature is, you know, kind of like a, we live in a doggy dog world,
1:18.9	that kind of thing when it comes to the law of nature. This is the natural law, which is the moral law,
1:24.3	the obligation to do some things and to avoid other things that every person finds in the human
1:29.5	heart, right? Every person finds in themselves to some degree. There are laws written, not in some
1:34.9	book somewhere, but written on the human heart. Romans chapter 1 talks about this, but also the
1:39.2	church has for 2000 years, has talked about the natural moral law that every person inside of them.
1:45.9	Again, not that we all see this clearly, not that we all necessarily even agree on every point
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