Day 278: The Second Commandment (2025)

The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz)

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🗓️ 5 October 2025

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

We begin our examination of the second commandment, to not take the Lord’s name in vain. Fr. Mike emphasizes that God has revealed his sacred name to us, and it is our duty to treat that name with reverence. He also emphasizes just how easy it is for us to take the Lord’s name in vain in our day and age, and how vitally important it is for us to treat his holy name with respect. Today’s readings are Catechism paragraphs 2142-2149.

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's Father Mike Schmitz, and you're listening to The Catechism in a Year podcast,
0:09.3	where we encounter God's plan of sheer goodness for us, revealed in scripture, and passed down
0:13.5	through the tradition of the Catholic faith. The Catechism in New Year is brought to you by
0:16.8	Ascension. In 365 days, we'll read through the Catechism of the Catholic Church discovering our identity and God's family as we journey together toward our heavenly home. This is Day 278. We're reading paragraphs 2142 to 2149. 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 plan by visiting ascensionpress.com slash cI. And you can click follow or subscribe in your podcast app for daily updates. Daily notifications today is 278. We're reading about the second commandment. We only have a couple days with the second command. That sounds like like the radio host. We only have a couple days with the second commandment, but it's true. The second commandment, you shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain. And also, you shall not swear falsely. But I say to you, do not swear at all. Are the two bases, if that's the right word, baseses? There The two foundations of this commandment.
1:11.5	The name of the Lord is holy.
1:13.3	That's what we're starting with today.
1:14.5	And it's really incredible because, man, in our day and in our age, the name of the Lord
1:20.7	is a curse word.
1:23.4	The name of our Lord is taken in virtually every context.
1:27.7	I mean, from the worst kind of way you can abuse the Lord's language to even, you know,
1:31.6	popular TV shows that are for mainstream audiences or movies that are for mainstream audiences,
1:36.0	even movies that might be indicated as like PG or just basically prime time.
1:39.9	The name of the Lord is so often blasphemed.
1:44.3	We're also going to talk tomorrow a little bit more about false oaths.
1:48.6	We'll also talk about the Christian name later on.
1:52.1	And recognizing here that in revealing his name to us, God has entrusted himself to us
1:57.8	in this profound and deeply, deeply personal way. And so we have to,
2:03.0	we have to have this spirit of fear when it comes to the Lord's name, fear and awe,
2:07.8	awe and trembling when it comes to the Lord's name. There's going to be this incredible, I think
2:11.6	it's one of my favorite quotes from John Henry Cardinal Newman. It's in paragraph 2144.
2:16.3	It's one of my favorite quotes from him
2:18.0	and talking about specifically fear, the fear of the Lord and the name of the Lord. And so as we
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