Day 277: Agnosticism and Graven Images (2024)
The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz)
Ascension
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🗓️ 3 October 2024
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
As we reach the conclusion of the section on the first commandment, we end by taking a closer look at agnosticism and graven images. Fr. Mike unpacks the different forms that agnosticism can take. He also examines the veneration of images and their relation to the first commandment. Today’s readings are Catechism paragraphs 2127-2141.
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 | My name is Father Mike Schmitz and you're listening to the Catechism in a year |
| 0:08.6 | podcast where we encounter God's plan of sheer goodness for us, revealed in scripture and passed down to the |
| 0:13.7 | tradition of the Catholic faith, the Catechism in the years brought to you by |
| 0:16.4 | ascension. In 365 days we'll read through the Catechism of the Catholic Church |
| 0:20.7 | discovering our identity in God's family as we journey together toward |
| 0:24.1 | our heavenly home. This is day 277. We were reading paragraphs 2127 to 2141 as always. |
| 0:29.8 | I am using the Ascension Edition of the Catechism, which includes the foundations of |
| 0:33.5 | faith approach, but you can follow along with any recent version of the Catechism |
| 0:36.7 | of the Catholic Church. You can also download your own Catechism in a year reading plan by |
| 0:41.1 | visiting Ascension Press.com slash C IY and you can click follow or subscribe in your |
| 0:45.1 | podcast app for daily updates in daily notifications today is day |
| 0:48.7 | two 77 reading paragraphs 2127 to 2121. |
| 0:52.8 | That means we're getting all the way to the end of this First |
| 0:55.0 | Commandment, which means partially a nugget day, |
| 0:58.0 | which is great. |
| 0:58.8 | But also, we're looking at two more things. |
| 1:00.5 | Yesterday we looked at atheism, |
| 1:01.9 | as well as some other sins against the |
| 1:03.7 | First Amendment. Today looking at agnosticism and what exactly that is. I mentioned that there's |
| 1:09.1 | been a rise in atheism in our day yesterday. there's also been a rise in agnosticism in our day, which makes sense. |
| 1:18.4 | With so much confusion, someone might not even be at the place where they're willing to say, |
| 1:22.4 | I know that God exists say I know that God |
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