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In 365 days, we'll read through the Catechism of the Catholic Church, discovering our identity and God's family as we journey together toward our heavenly home. This is Day 288, we were reading paragraphs 2221 to 2231. That's a lot. That's at least 10 paragraphs. As always, I'm using the Ascension edition of the Catechism, which includes the foundations of faith approach,

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22 21 to 22 31 yesterday we talked about the duties of children. Today, we're

talking about the duties of parents and that there's, you know, I was intimidated. I was convicted,

as you heard, I was convicted by, I actually so convicted. It was, it was, it was emotional for me.

I don't know if I came across that way. It was just, it's, it's, uh's the ways in which, you know, we failed to live up to live up to God's commands with the ways in which we fail to live up to the, that great command of loving our neighbor, you know, even just, you know, loving your parents is, it can be very convicting and it's so convicting for me. I kind of, I feel like I kind of plowed through yesterday, just trying to just like, okay, just make it through this episode. But, uh, uh, yeah, conviction. It's good because remember, I said it at the end of the episode yesterday, this is not about information transfer. This is about transformation. This is about allowing the Lord, vowing the teachings of the church to convict our hearts

and challenge and change our lives. And so today, the duties of parents, and we recognize that

parents, I love the first sentence. It's 2221. The reason I love the first sentence of paragraph 2221

is because at one point I was trying to demonstrate to our students that the catechism is

incredibly approachable.

And so I said, you guys, it's in like everyday language.

You can understand virtually everything that catechism says.

And I just randomly flipped open my catechism at the time and read paragraph 20, the beginning of the paragraph 2221.

And it says this, the fecundity of conjugal love cannot be reduced solely to the procreation

of children.

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