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

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Ascension. In 365 days, we'll read through the Catechism of the Catholic Church, our identity in God's family as we journey together toward our heavenly home. This is Day 277. We're reading paragraphs 2127 to 2141 as always. I am 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 plan by visiting

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and daily notifications today is day 277, reading paragraphs 2127 to 2141. That means we're getting

all way to the end of this First

Commandment, which means partially a Nugget Day, which is great. But also, we're looking at

two more things. Yesterday, we looked at atheism as well as some other sins against the First

Commandment. Today, we're looking at agnosticism and what exactly that is. I mentioned that there's

been a rise in atheism in our day yesterday.

There also been a rise in agnosticism in our day, which makes sense. With so much confusion,

someone might not even be at the place where they're willing to say, I know that God exists or I know that God doesn't exist.

There's kind of that, I don't know. That confusion is so real that it's, that's what it ends up being. Agnosticism is basically, I don't know. And so here I am. We're also looking at the last little bit before the Nuggets is the last part of that first commandment, you shall not make for yourself a graven image. And so we're looking at that because this is important, well, it's more for all of us. It's important for us as Catholics because we have images, right? We have images in our churches, in our homes. We have paintings. We have statues. We have all, we're surrounded by images. And so the question we get to ask is, wait a second, it is really clear and kind of obvious in the Bible here that we're not supposed to make any

images. So what's with the images, right? So we're looking at that today as well as I said,

looking at some nuggets to summarize this whole first commandment. As we launch into today,

let us first launch into the Father's Heart with prayer. Father in heaven, I give you praise and glory.

Thank you so much for bringing us here to this moment, to this day, today 277. Thank you.

Also, Lord, thank you. Bring us to a place past not knowing, past being uncertain, past being, I'm not sure, or even, Lord, God, in sure or even lord god in the midst of uncertainty

in the midst of not being sure thank you for bringing us to a place where we can declare god i know you are

and god i know you are good thank you for bringing us to this place of faith so that we can't be

we're not merely stuck in that place of not knowing Lord God you surround

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