Day 283: The Day of Rest

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

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🗓️ 10 October 2023

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Summary

We all tend to make an idol of work. The Catechism teaches us that Sunday is a day of grace and rest from work. Fr. Mike explains what holy leisure looks like, emphasizing the importance of spending time with family, serving the poor, and taking time to meditate and pray. Resting on the Sabbath reminds us that our freedom and identity are found in the Lord. Today’s readings are Catechism paragraphs 2184-2195.

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 is Father Mike Schmitz and you're listening to The Catechism in a Year Podcast,
0:09.3	where we encounter God's plan if you're goodness for us, revealed in Scripture and passed
0:12.8	down through the tradition of the Catholic faith. The Catechism in a Year is brought to you
0:16.1	by Ascension. In 365 days, we'll read through the Catechism of the Catholic Church, discovering
0:21.2	our identity and God's family. As we journey together toward a heavenly home, this is day 283,
0:26.2	reading paragraphs 2184 to 2195. As always, I'm using the Ascension edition of the Catechism,
0:31.7	which includes the foundations of faith approach, but you can follow along with any recent version
0:35.4	of the Catechism of the Catholic Church. You can also download your own Catechism in a Year
0:38.8	Reading Plan by visiting AscensionPress.com slash C-I-Y. That stands for Catechism in a year.
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0:51.7	As we said, day 283 paragraphs 2184 to 2195. We have some nuggets because we are coming to the
0:57.6	conclusion of the Third Commandment, as well as the conclusion of those commandments that are
1:02.3	directly related to the Lord. I mean, obviously, all the commandments are related to the Lord.
1:06.9	But remember, out of the Ten Commandments here, the first three are specifically to the Lord,
1:11.4	and the last seven are how we interact with each other. Now, yesterday, we talked about the Sunday
1:16.7	obligation. We talked about the parish, what a parish is. We talked about how the Sunday Eucharist
1:21.6	is the heart, right? It's the foundation, and it's everything. It is everything for us.
1:27.1	At the same time, we recognize that the Commandment not only entails the obligation to worship.
1:33.2	It also instructs us that we also have to take time aside to rest, to rest from work. It's a day
1:40.5	of grace and rest from work. And that's what the header of paragraph 2084 highlights and reminds
1:46.2	us of. Now, this is one of those things. I said this yesterday, and maybe even the day before,
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