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 down

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discovering our identity and God's families, we journey together toward our heavenly home. This is Day 257. We're reading paragraphs 1961 to 1964. 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 a year reading plan by visiting ascensionpress.com slash CIY, and you can click follow or subscribe on your podcast app for daily updates, daily notifications. Day 257 today, you guys, we're getting closer to that 260 mark. We're getting close to the 360 mark for crying out loud, but 257, paragraph's 1961, 1964.

Yesterday, we talked about the natural moral law and we had this recognition, right,

this knowing that we're talking about the moral law, the law written on our hearts,

but also there is the revealed law.

That's what we're talking about today.

The old law tomorrow we'll talk about the new law or the law of the gospel.

But remember, God has written the truth right god has written goodness in the human heart he's written the moral law in every human

heart there's such a thing as conscience that we all experience now at the same time st augustine has this

great quote in paragraph 1962 from today's reading, where he says,

God wrote on the tables of the law what men did not read in their hearts. And so here is God

who makes it more explicit, right? Yes, there is a moral law that's the natural law written in our

human hearts. And yet God wanted to go further than that. He wanted to make it absolutely clear

what is the right. What is the

right way to walk and to walk it? Now at the same time, it is pedagogy, right? Pedagogically, pedagogically

advancing. So pedagogy is essentially teaching, right? It's that sense of how does God reveal

himself? Well, step by step. We've talked about this so many times when I went to

the Bible in a year, and even here, we've talked about it as well, where God starts at level one,

and he raises us to level two. If he just jumped to level seven or eight or ten, we wouldn't

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