Day 267: The Church as Mother and Teacher
The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz)
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🗓️ 24 September 2023
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
“The moral life is spiritual worship,” says the Catechism. From the Church, we receive moral guidance, with the Magisterium safeguarding and passing down authentic Christian moral teaching through the generations. This teaching reminds us who we are and how we should be, though it may sometimes deeply challenge us. In its prophetic role, Fr. Mike tells us, “the Church must both console and convict.” Today’s readings are Catechism paragraphs 2030-2036.
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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Please note: The Catechism of the Catholic Church contains adult themes that may not be suitable for children - parental discretion is advised.
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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 |
| 0:23.0 | and God's families we journey together toward a heavenly home. This is the 267 we're reading |
| 0:27.6 | paragraphs, 2030 to 2036, as always, I'm using the ascension edition of the Catechism, |
| 0:33.2 | which includes the foundations of the faith approach, but you could follow along with any |
| 0:36.3 | recent version of the Catechism of the Catholic Church. You can also download your own Catechism |
| 0:39.9 | in a Year reading plan by visiting ascensionpress.com slash C-I-Y and lastly, you can, you can, |
| 0:46.1 | you don't have to, don't have to do it. You can click, follow or subscribe in your podcast app |
| 0:50.1 | for daily updates, daily notifications, it is day 267. As I said, yesterday we finished Article 2 on |
| 0:56.5 | Grace and Merit and Freedom and it's awesome. Today, I mentioned this yesterday, today we're talking |
| 1:02.1 | about the Church, our mother and teacher. And for the next couple days, we're going to be talking |
| 1:05.9 | about this until we launch into the Ten Commandments and really diving deeply into the moral life. |
| 1:10.1 | And one of the reasons why the Church is setting this out for us is because if the Church |
| 1:15.3 | is our mother, then she loves us. And if the Church is our teacher, then we need to listen to her. |
| 1:20.3 | And that's, and that's, that can be the challenge for so many of us. We talked about this a little |
| 1:24.7 | bit before, but sometimes when people read the Bible, it can be far enough ago, like long enough |
| 1:30.0 | in the past that people are not threatened by the Bible. Sometimes, sometimes people are, which is |
| 1:34.8 | good because the word of God is meant to convict our hearts, it meant to console our hearts, it's meant |
| 1:38.8 | to be very, very present. But sometimes we can hold it at an arm's length and say, well, that was |
| 1:43.2 | then, and maybe God's word is convicting me, but you know, I'm not going to apply it to my life |
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