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 sure 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 and God's family as we journey together to our heavenly home. This is day 280. We're reading paragraphs 2156 to 2167. There's some nuggets in there. 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 catechism into your reading plan by visiting ascensionpress.com slash CIY, and you can click follow or subscribe your podcast app for daily updates, daily notifications to keep on track. Today you'd see that there's nuggets. You'd also see that this is a day that I just want to say thank you. once again, to every person who has been praying for this podcast, praying for all the people working on this podcast, praying for each other. Thank you when you do that. It just, I think it matters a lot for praying for each other. Also, all of you who have supported the production of this podcast financially, we couldn't do this without you to get all the way to day 280. That's a, that's a feat. And also, you guys pressing play. It's so good. Now, again, we're finishing commandment two, second commandment today. Tomorrow we'll launch into the third commandment. But today we're finishing up the name of the Lord is holy and that we must never take the name of the Lord in vain. But this is going to be one of those things where as we're reading through the commandments, you're going to be struck by the fact that the catechism has put so much thought, so much prayer into these commandments that there may be some new aspects to the commandments that you've never considered in the past. And this is one of them. Today we're going to talk about here under the umbrella of the Second Commandment, you should not take the name of the Lord you got in vain.

We're going to talk about what it is to bear the Christian name, to bear the name Christ, that when you're baptized, you're baptized in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.

And so in baptism, the Lord's name sanctifies us. And the Christian receives his name in the church.

Therefore, we actually can lift up the Christian name, the name of God by living the way he's called

us to live. We can also, in some ways, like defame, right? Or blaspheme the name of Christian by the way we live. And that's one of the key things.

You know, so often we can look at our lives and we talked about this so many times. There are such

things as personal sins, but no such thing as a private sin that here we have personal sins.

Yes, but since I bear the name of Christ, you bear the name of Christ if you're a Christian,

then no sin we have

is private. There's a personal aspect to every sin, but there's also this communal aspect to every

sin. Because we bear the name of Christian, we're called to live in a certain way. And when we don't

live that way, there's scandal, right? There's the sin of, in some ways even, going so far as to say,

blaspheming against the name of God himself. So as we launch into that and looking at some

nuggets at the end of this, just keep that in mind. Let's pray and ask our father to sanctify his

name in our lives. That his name may be glorified in how we live as we pray,

Father in heaven, we give you thanks. In the name of your son, we ask you, please send your

Holy Spirit upon us in this moment. Send your Holy Spirit so that every action of ours, every word

we speak, even every thought that passes through our minds, glorifies your name, that every

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