Day 284: The Fourth Commandment

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

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🗓️ 11 October 2023

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

The Fourth Commandment addresses the most universal human relationship: our relationship with our parents. Why does God command us to honor our father and our mother? Fr. Mike explains why this Commandment sets the foundation for all the other Commandments. He shares the 3 levels of respect and what it looks like to honor our parents despite their brokenness and imperfections. Today’s readings are Catechism paragraphs 2196-2200.

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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Please note: The Catechism of the Catholic Church contains adult themes that may not be suitable for children - parental discretion is advised.

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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 of sheer goodness for us, revealed in Scripture and passed down
0:13.2	to the tradition of the Catholic faith. The Catechism in a Year is brought to you by Ascension.
0:17.1	In 365 days, we'll read through the Catechism of the Catholic Church, discovering our identity
0:22.0	and God's family as we journey together to our Heavenly Home. This is day 284,
0:26.0	we're reading paragraphs 2196 to 2200. As always, I am using the ascension edition of the Catechism,
0:31.7	which includes the foundations of faith approach that you can follow along with any recent version
0:35.6	of the Catechism of the Catholic Church. You can also download your own Catechism in a Year
0:39.3	Reading Plan by visiting ascensionpress.com, slash C-I-Y, and lastly, you can click follow or
0:44.3	subscribe on your podcast app for daily updates and daily notifications today. As day 284,
0:48.3	as I said, we're reading paragraphs 2196 to 2200. We're starting on that second part,
0:52.9	our second portion, I guess what it would say, like that division of the Decalogue,
0:57.0	commandments 4 through 10, and so today. Looking at this chapter 2, which is the great commandment,
1:02.3	second great commandment, right? You shall love your neighbor as yourself. The fourth commandment,
1:06.4	of course, is to honor your father and your mother, and this is remarkable. I don't know if you
1:11.2	are prepared for this because, you know, the last couple days, commandments 1 through 3 have had
1:16.3	aspects to them that I think truly are so compelling and reflect a depth of meditation on those
1:23.2	first commandments. Commandment 4 and 5 in the following, right? In the rest of these, there is
1:28.4	such richness. You know, we're teeing up the fourth commandment today, but tomorrow we're talking
1:33.4	about the nature of the family and actually the role of a family in God's plan and what the Christian
1:38.7	family is supposed to look like. We're also looking at the family and society and the duty that
1:44.1	the family owes to society and the duty that society owes to families. We're also going to talk
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