Day 269: Our Missionary Witness

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

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🗓️ 26 September 2023

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

The Church’s mission of evangelization depends on the faithful witness of her members. Christian goodness and fidelity authenticate the Gospel. As Fr. Mike relates, people are attracted to admirable but everyday Christian witnesses. Through such lives of quiet holiness, the Church is built up and brought to greater fullness. This episode closes with a few summary “nuggets” about the moral life in the Church. Today’s readings are Catechism paragraphs 2044-2051.

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,
0:09.5	where we encounter God's plan of sheer goodness for us, revealed in Scripture and passed down
0:13.9	to 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,
0:21.5	discovering our identity and God's family. As we journey together toward our heavenly home,
0:25.4	this is day 269. We're reading paragraphs 2044 to 2051. Some nuggets today, as always,
0:30.8	I'm using the ascension edition of the Catechism, which includes the foundations of faith approach,
0:34.5	but you can follow along with any recent version of the Catechism of the Catholic Church. You can
0:38.1	also download your own Catechism in a Year reading plan by visiting ascensionpress.com slash
0:43.1	C-I-Y, and lastly, you can click follow or subscribe in your podcast app for daily updates and daily
0:48.2	notifications, because today is day 269. You know, tomorrow I shouldn't get ahead of myself, but
0:53.2	tomorrow we're going to start this new adventure, and the new adventure is the commandments,
0:57.1	the Ten Commandments, and you know, you think, we're just going to jump right into the Ten Commandments.
1:01.1	No, we're going to give some context to the Ten Commandments. It's very, very important.
1:04.4	Anyways, backing up. What are we doing? Today, we're talking about the moral life. Obviously,
1:09.2	we've been talking about the moral life for the last number of days, but the moral life specifically
1:15.6	as it relates to missionary witness. There are three paragraphs 2044 to 2046, where this is just,
1:22.3	it's so beautiful. You guys, you're going to hear it in just a second. Maybe you're reading ahead of
1:25.2	you reading right in front of you with your ascension Catechism. It's so powerful. And here's the
1:30.5	very first line in paragraph 2044. The fidelity of the baptized is a primordial condition for the
1:37.0	proclamation of the gospel and for the church's mission in the world. That is pretty profound.
1:43.2	That the fidelity of the baptized, that all of us are called to be faithful, and that is the
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