Day 264: Man’s Merit

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

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🗓️ 21 September 2023

⏱️ 15 minutes

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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 is Father Mike Schmitz and you're listening to The Catechism in a Year Podcast,
0:09.4	where we encounter God's plan of sheer goodness for us, revealed in Scripture and passed
0:13.2	down to the tradition of the Catholic faith.
0:15.3	The Catechism in a Year is brought to you by Ascension.
0:17.4	In 365 days, we'll read through the Catechism of the Catholic Church discovering our identity
0:21.6	and God's family as we journey together to a heavenly home this is day 264, where we're
0:25.6	creating paragraphs 2006-2011 as always, I'm using the ascension edition of the Catechism,
0:30.8	which includes the foundations of faith approach, but you can follow along with any recent
0:33.8	version of the Catechism of the Catholic Church, you can also download your own Catechism
0:37.0	in a Year reading plan by visiting ascensionpress.com slash the i-y.
0:40.8	And lastly, you can click follow or subscribe on your podcast app for daily updates and daily
0:44.4	notifications today, day 264, only one day, until we're 100 days away from completing
0:49.1	this and what do we talk about today, yesterday, and the day before, grace, so good.
0:53.6	Amazing, as we said at the very end of that episode, today merit.
0:57.8	What is merit?
0:58.8	And this is so important because there can be, there can be a misconception of what merit
1:03.2	is.
1:04.2	And because we say, wait a second, but grace is the unmerited gift of God, like the salvation
1:08.2	is unmerited, and yet there is such a thing as merit.
1:12.6	So what is that?
1:13.6	Well, I'm glad you asked because paragraphs 2006-2011 are going to answer that question.
1:20.2	So let's come before the Lord with humble hearts on this beautiful gift of a day, talking
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