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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 tradition of the Catholic faith.

The Catechism in a year is brought to you by ascension.

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 our heavenly home. This is day 269. We're reading paragraphs 24 to 2051. Some nuggets today. As always, I'm using the Ascension edition of the Catechism, which includes the Foundations of Faith approach, but you can follow along with any recent version of the Catechism of the Catholic Church. You can also download your own catechism in a year reading plan by visiting ascensionpress.com slash CIY. And lastly, you can click follow or subscribe in your podcast app for daily updates and daily notifications, because today is day 269. You know, tomorrow, I shouldn't get ahead of myself, but tomorrow we're going to start this new adventure and the new adventure is the commandments, the Ten Commandments. And you know, you think, we're just going to jump right into the Ten Commandments. Now we're going to give some context to the Ten Commandments. It's very, very important. Anyways, backing up, what are we doing? Today, we're talking about the moral life. Obviously, we've been talking about the moral life for the last number of days but the moral life specifically as it relates to

missionary witness there are three paragraphs 24 to 2046 where this is just it's so beautiful

you guys you're going to hear it in just a second maybe you're reading ahead if you're

reading right in front of you with your ascension catechism. It's so powerful. And here's, here's the very first line in paragraph 244. The fidelity of the baptized is a primordial condition for the proclamation of the gospel and for the church's mission in the world. that is pretty profound, that the fidelity of the baptized,

that all of us are called to be faithful.

And that is the primordial condition for the proclamation of the gospel

and for the church's mission in the world.

Which means that we can't just say the truth.

We have to live the truth.

Isn't that just this is remarkable for us?

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