Day 268: The Precepts of the Church (2024)
The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz)
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🗓️ 24 September 2024
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
God has given the Church his law as “the way of life and truth.” We, therefore, have the right to be taught and guided while maintaining a spirit of docility in love. In this, Fr. Mike reminds us that the Church is our caring mother. Her care extends into the five precepts of the Church, those laws establishing the very minimum needed to remain an active member of the Body of Christ. These have to do with attending Mass, receiving the sacraments, fasting, and providing for the needs of the Church. Today’s readings are Catechism paragraphs 2037-2043.
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 |
| 0:08.3 | in a year podcast where we encounter God's plan of sheer goodness for us |
| 0:11.8 | revealed in scripture and passed down through the tradition of the |
| 0:14.6 | Catholic faith. The Catechism in a year is brought to you by ascension. In 365 days we'll |
| 0:19.1 | read through the Catechism of the Catholic Church discovering our identity in God's family as we journey |
| 0:23.8 | together toward a heavenly home this is day 268 we're reading paragraphs 2037 through |
| 0:28.6 | 2043 as always I'm using the Ascension Edition of the Catechism, which includes the foundations of |
| 0:33.4 | faith approach, but you can follow along with any recent version of the Catechism of the Catholic |
| 0:37.2 | Church. To download your own Catechism and He reading Plan, visit Ascension Press. |
| 0:41.2 | Come slash C IY. And lastly, you can click follow. visit Ascension We're reading paragraphs as I said 2037 to 2043. |
| 0:53.0 | We're continuing what we said talked, |
| 0:54.4 | started talking about yesterday, right? |
| 0:56.0 | Church is, the Church is mother and teacher. |
| 0:58.7 | And so I don't know if you are catching on to this, |
| 1:01.7 | but in this section the church is maybe taking pains to |
| 1:07.2 | simply remind us that the church is good that the church founded by God, |
| 1:13.2 | God who's good, founded a church that is good. |
| 1:16.4 | Yes, of course, there are weeds among the wheat. |
| 1:19.0 | Yes, we absolutely know that. |
| 1:20.2 | There are sinners among the Saints, |
| 1:21.9 | and there are times when people have abused |
| 1:23.5 | their power times when people have abused teaching and people and and all these |
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