Day 268: The Precepts of the Church (2025)
The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz)
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🗓️ 25 September 2025
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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 | We can't lose our faith the way we lose our car keys. We either give it away or we let it decay |
| 0:06.3 | because we don't use it. Hi, my name is Father Mike Schmitz. And in my new book, Unshakeable, |
| 0:11.8 | building a life of virtue in a world of chaos, I tell faith-filled stories that inspire you |
| 0:17.1 | to live a life of virtue that flows from the unshakable power of God. |
| 0:21.6 | Although we're surrounded by a culture that mocks virtue, we can feed ourselves stories |
| 0:25.6 | that really do uphold what is good and promote a virtuous life. |
| 0:29.6 | When we live this way, we experience freedom and joy like never before. |
| 0:35.6 | It's my prayer that the stories in my book, Unshakeable, will inspire you |
| 0:39.8 | to fight the battle for a virtuous life and win through trust in an unshakable God. Order your |
| 0:46.6 | copy at ascensionpress.com. |
| 1:01.1 | Hi, my name's Father Mike Schmitz, and you're listening to the Catechism in a Year podcast, where we encounter God's plan of sheer goodness for us, revealed in scripture, and passed down through the |
| 1:05.5 | tradition of the Catholic faith. The Catechism in a Year is brought to you by ascension. |
| 1:08.6 | In 365 days, we'll read through the Catechism of the Catholic Church discovering our identity and God's family as we journey together toward a heavenly home. |
| 1:16.3 | This is Day 268. We're reading paragraphs 2037 through 2043. As always, I'm using the Ascension edition of the Catechism, which includes the foundations of faith approach, |
| 1:25.5 | but you can follow along with any recent version of the Catechism of the Catholic Church |
| 1:28.8 | to download your own Catechism in your |
| 1:30.9 | reading plan. Visit ascensionpress.com slash cIY. And lastly, you can click follow or subscribe |
| 1:36.6 | on your podcast app for daily updates and daily notifications because today, say 268, we're reading |
| 1:41.7 | paragraphs, as I said, 2037 to 2043. We're continuing what we said, |
| 1:45.6 | talked about yesterday, right? Church is, the church is mother and teacher. And so I don't know if you |
| 1:51.6 | are catching on to this, but in this section, the church is maybe taking pains to simply |
| 1:58.8 | remind us that the church is good, that the church founded by God, |
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