Hi, my name is Father Mike Schmitz, and you're listening to the Catechism in a Year podcast,

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Ascension. In 365 days, 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 a 259. We're reading paragraphs 1970 to 1974. As always, I'm 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 of the Catholic Church. You can also download your own catechism in a year reading plan by visiting ascensionpress.com slash CIY. And lastly, you can click follow or subscribe in your podcast app for daily updates, daily notifications. Today's J-259. We're continuing with the new law or law of the gospel as we read paragraphs 1970 to 1974. We're talking about the golden rule.

That's actually one of the things.

Whatever you wish that men would do to you, do so to them.

This is the law and the prophets.

Also, the entire law of the gospel is contained in the new commandment of Jesus.

What is the new commandment of Jesus?

This is it.

Love with another as he has loved us.

Ultimately, the new law, the new law is a law of love

and and gosh this is so important for us rather than that new law oh it's a law of love piece of

cake no problem you know i think it was st augustin he said love god and do what you will and we're like yeah

that's great piece of it is it It is it, piece of cake.

No problem. Well, wait a second. Let's hold up here.

1970. Here's the quote from John's Gospel chapter 15, verse 12, love one another as he has loved us.

Okay. How has Christ loved us? He has loved us by pouring out his very life for us, by saying no to

himself and yes to his father. So the father can be glorified and so we could have new life. So that is a high,

high call. We're going to talk about that high call. We actually have been talking about it for the last

couple of days, the fact that we can't live up to that high call without the grace of the Holy Spirit, without the grace that comes to us because of what Jesus has done for us. And how does it come to us?

Mention this yesterday. And it's so important we can never forget this. It comes to us when we make use of the sacraments that God is given to give us the grace to accomplish

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