Hi, my name's Father Mike Schmitz, and you're listening to the Catechism in a Year podcast, where we encounter God's plan, if your 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 identity and God's family. As we journey together toward a heavenly home, this is day 283. We are reading paragraphs 2184 to 2195. 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 c. 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 CIY. That stands for catechism in a year if you got this far and didn't realize that yet. A little insider secret. Lastly, you can click follow or subscribe in your podcast app for daily updates and daily notifications today. As we said, day 283, paragraphs 2184 to 2195. We have some

nuggets because we are coming to the conclusion of the third commandment as well as the

conclusion of those commandments that are directly related to the Lord. I mean, obviously all the

commandments are related to the Lord. But remember, out of the Ten Commandments here, the first three

are specifically to the Lord and the last seven are how we interact with each other.

Now, yesterday we talked about the Sunday obligation.

We talked about the parish, what a parish is.

We talked about how the Sunday Eucharist is the heart, right?

It's the foundation and it's everything.

It is everything for us.

At the same time, we recognize that the commandment

not only entails the obligation to worship. It also instructs us that we also have to take time

aside to rest, to rest from work. It's a day of grace and rest from work. And that's what

the header of paragraph 2184 highlights and reminds us of. Now, this is one of those things. I said this yesterday and maybe even the day before. There are some aspects of this commandment that are going to be convicting. There are some aspects that you're going to say, wait, what does that mean for me? Yes, that's good. That's really, really good. The explanations here in paragraphs 2184 to 2188.

This is going to be really, really important and valuable when you say,

wait a second, if this obligation, this command to rest from work doesn't just land on me. It actually

lands on how I live my life because am I choosing to spend my Sunday in such a way

that I'm forcing other people to work, then I may need to take another evaluation of how I'm spending

that day of rest, how I'm spending that Sunday, the Lord's Day. And so again, this is going to be a great

day of conviction for probably so many of us

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