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

through the tradition of the Catholic faith. The Catechism in the year is brought to you by

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This is Day 281. We were reading paragraphs 2168 to 2176.

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 lastly, you can click follow or subscribe on your podcast app for daily updates and daily notifications. Today is day 281. You guys, I know I said this yesterday, but this is incredible. I mean, we're close to 300, which means we're close to 365, which means we're close to completing the entire catechism. Here we are completed yesterday, the second commandment. Today we're starting the third commandment, which is so good, because why? Well, you know the first through the third commandments directly relate to God. And then, of course, starting after this, commandments four through ten, how do we relate to each other? But I just, there's something about this. Of course, the first commandment, have no other gods before the Lord God. And the second commandment to keep holy of the Lord's name. But this third commandment about, remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy, there's something, again, we come back to this

worship, come back to what we owe to God. Remember, we talked about this before because the

catechism highlights this, that the virtue of justice, the primary subverture of justice,

is the virtue of religion. And the way in which we express live out the virtue of religion

is through worship. And so what we'll talk about today

is just the beginnings of that, that here we are, and this commandment to keep holy the Sabbath

is not for the Lord. It's not because he needs anything. It's not because he needs our worship.

It is because we need it. This commandment corresponds to how human beings have made. It corresponds

to the human heart.

And this is just, it's so important for us to recognize this because if we don't recognize

this, one of the things that we forget is we forget what it is to be human. To be human

is to be oriented towards worship of God, to recognize that we are not the center of the universe.

The God is the source.

He's the origin and he's the point.

He is the entire point of existence.

He's the source of existence.

He is the whole purpose and goal of existence.

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