Day 271: Love of God (2025)
The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz)
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🗓️ 28 September 2025
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Summary
We continue our overview of the Ten Commandments by looking at the two parts: love of God and love of neighbor. Together they form a “coherent whole,” and there is a unity between the two. While the Catechism shows us our obligation to follow the Commandments, it also reminds us that, “What God commands, he makes possible by his grace.” Fr. Mike emphasizes that even though it may be challenging at times, we are not alone. Jesus is here to help us keep his Commandments. Today’s readings are Catechism paragraphs 2064-2082.
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 is 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 |
| 1:05.1 | tradition of the Catholic faith. The Catechism in a year is brought to you by ascension. In 365 days, |
| 1:10.1 | we'll read through the Catechism of the Catholic Church discovering our identity and God's family as we journey together to our heavenly home. This is a 271. Amazing. We're reading paragraphs, 264 to 2082. 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. |
| 1:30.0 | You can also download your own catechism in a year reading plan by visiting ascensionpress.com |
| 1:35.0 | slash CIY, and you can click follow or subscribe in your podcast app for daily updates and daily |
| 1:40.2 | notifications today. Day 271 paragraphs 2064, not 2064, yeah, 2064 into 2082. |
| 1:48.0 | We're talking about the decalogue. Remember, the decalogue literally means the 10 words. |
| 1:52.4 | And so first, we're looking at the decalogue in the church's tradition. You might have noticed |
| 1:56.9 | that yesterday, when I read the 10 commandments, I read three different versions from the book of Exodus, from the Book of Deuteronomy, and then the classical catechetical numbering and catechetical explanation of those Ten Commandments. Where did that come from? Great question, Camper. The short answer is St. Augustine. Well, they have the longer answer in paragraphs 2065 and 266. But we highlight the fact that when we're looking at the |
| 2:19.6 | 10 commandments, we're looking at a whole, right? We're looking at not just a bunch of arbitrary |
| 2:24.2 | dictates, right? Not just a bunch of kind of random suggestions or even random commands, |
| 2:29.9 | but they have a coherent whole that the first three commandments have to do with love of God, |
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