Day 275: Superstition, Idolatry, and Magic
The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz)
Ascension
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🗓️ 2 October 2023
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
Superstition, idolatry, divination, and magic are all things we can encounter in our daily lives, and, with Fr. Mike, we unpack how they break the First Commandment. Fr. Mike reiterates that superstition represents an “excess of religion” and can affect the worship we offer to God. He points out that we can be superstitious even in our Catholic practices. He also explains that idolatry consists of divinizing anything that is not God. Today’s readings are Catechism paragraphs 2110-2117.
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 | 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 |
| 0:13.6 | through the tradition of the Catholic faith. The Catechism in years brought to you by Ascension. |
| 0:17.5 | In 365 days, we'll read through the Catechism of the Catholic Church, discovering our identity |
| 0:22.5 | in God's family as we journey together toward our heavenly home. This is day 275 we're reading |
| 0:27.2 | paragraphs 2110 through 2117, as always, I'm using the Ascension edition of the Catechism, |
| 0:33.4 | which includes the foundations of faith approach, but you can follow along with any recent version |
| 0:37.2 | of the Catechism of the Catholic Church. You can also download your own Catechism in a year |
| 0:40.7 | reading plan by visiting AscensionPress.com slash C-I-Y, and you can click follow or subscribe |
| 0:45.6 | on your podcast app for daily updates and daily notifications. Quick thank you to everyone who |
| 0:50.0 | has supported this podcast. Thank you for your prayers. I do mean it. I say that I'm praying for you. |
| 0:55.3 | I literally am every single day. Thank you for your prayers. And thank you for your financial |
| 0:59.0 | gifts. We couldn't do this podcast without you today, as we're continuing this first commandment. |
| 1:03.7 | I just, it's so we have a couple more days of this commandment, but this day is |
| 1:09.4 | they're all great, aren't they? Today we're going to talk about what is it? What does God mean when |
| 1:15.1 | He says you shall have no other gods before me? What is idolatry? What's the danger of idolatry |
| 1:20.9 | to our hearts? What's superstition? Now superstition is something that man, that sneaks in so many |
| 1:26.8 | places in our lives where we can say, okay, you know, if the black cat thing or the don't walk under |
| 1:31.6 | a ladder, don't open an umbrella inside, but there's also other little mini superstitions, meaning |
| 1:36.2 | we give a power that belongs only to God to something that's not God. And then idolatry is giving, |
| 1:43.6 | you know, worship or our heart or whatever it is that we belong to God to something that isn't |
| 1:48.3 | God. We're also going to look at divination and magic because those are, I mean, in some |
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