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 in God's family as we journey together toward our heavenly home. This is day 272. We're reading paragraphs 2083 to 2094. 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

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on your podcast app for daily updates and daily notifications today. As day 272, as I said,

long promised paragraphs 2083 to 2094. We were beginning the Ten Commandments.

We've had so much prep work. We had so much stuff to talk about to get us ready to look at the

decalogue, right? To get us to look at the commandments. Remember everything we're going to talk about

today and for the next quite a few number of days, everything has to do with relationship with

the Lord. Every single piece of what we're going to talk about for the next number of, well,

actually, well, is this a shock, right? A whole catechism. I think for the last 272 days, it has

had everything to do with the Lord in our relationship with Him. But keep this in mind, you and I are made for and called to

the heights of holiness, that you and I have been brought into a relationship with our Heavenly Father,

with the God who made the universe. And he has revealed himself to us. He's revealed how he's calling us

to live. And the first thing he asks, the first thing he commands, the first thing he tells us is you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind. The first commandment is essentially that you shall worship the Lord your God and Him only shall you serve. So we're going to talk about this first commandment for the next number of days. In fact, we have broken down into quite a few things.

Twenty things. That's a technical term, meaning I can't think of a better word than things.

But we're going to talk today about this first piece. You shall worship the Lord your God

and Him only shall you serve. That worship the Lord your God is the first part. And there's

some aspects of this. How does that relate to faith? How does that relate to hope? And how does that relate to charity? In fact, what are the ways that we can sin against faith in this regard? What are the ways that we can sin against hope in this regard? And what are some of the ways we can sin against love or charity in this regard? Now tomorrow we'll look at Him only shall you serve and then some more things after that. But this first step

of just recognizing that when it comes to you shall worship the Lord your God, there are ways in which

under the categories of faith, hope, and love, that we can violate this first of all commandments, that we should worship

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