Day 264: Man’s Merit (2024)
The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz)
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🗓️ 20 September 2024
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Summary
Knowing that our good actions begin and end in Christ, we recognize that man’s merit is due to God. Fr. Mike explains that charity in Christ is the source of all our merits. In this way, merit is pure grace, and we should look to the saints for examples of how to live this truth out. St. Thérèse of Lisieux puts it best when she prays to God: “In the evening of this life, I shall appear before you with empty hands.” Today’s readings are Catechism paragraphs 2006-2011.
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's Father Mike Schmitz and you're listening to the Catechism |
| 0:08.2 | in a year podcast where we encounter God's plan of sheer goodness for us |
| 0:11.6 | revealed in scripture and passed down through the tradition of the Catholic faith. |
| 0:14.8 | The Catechism in the years brought to you by ascension. In 365 days we'll read through the |
| 0:19.2 | Catechism of the Catholic Church discovering our identity and God's family as we journey |
| 0:23.2 | together toward our heavily home this is a 264 reading paragraphs 2006 to |
| 0:27.5 | 2011 as always I'm using the ascension edition of the Catechism which includes the |
| 0:31.4 | foundations of faith approach but you can follow along with any recent version of the Catechism which includes the Foundations of Faith approach but you can follow |
| 0:32.9 | along with any recent version of the Catechism of the Catholic Church you can also |
| 0:35.7 | download your own Catechism in a year reading plan by visiting ascension press |
| 0:39.0 | dot com slash the IY and lastly you can click follow or subscribe in your podcast app. |
| 0:43.0 | For your daily updates, daily notifications, today's day 264, only one day until we're |
| 0:47.8 | 100 days away from completing this and what do we talk about today yesterday and the day |
| 0:51.5 | before? Grace, so good. |
| 0:53.6 | Amazing, as we said at the very end of that episode. |
| 0:56.4 | Today, Merit. |
| 0:57.6 | What is Merit? |
| 0:58.7 | And this is so important because there can be, |
| 1:01.3 | there can be a misconception of what Mer is and because we say wait a second |
| 1:05.3 | but grace is the unmerited gift of God like the salvation is unmerited and yet there is |
| 1:09.7 | such a thing as merit so what that? Well I'm glad you asked because paragraphs |
| 1:16.6 | 2006-2011 are going to answer that question. So let's come before the Lord |
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