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

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we'll read through the Catechism of the Catholic Church, our identity and God's family as we journey together toward our heavenly home. This is Day 289. We're reading paragraphs 2232 to 2237. 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 CIY, and you can click follow or subscribe to your podcast app for daily updates and daily notifications. It's day 289. We're almost at day 29. We're only one day away. I don't know if you can count like that i just learned anyways

i don't know what that means we're we're continuing to talk about the fourth commandment and talking

about the family yesterday if you remember we talked about how yes the family is is the place of

we talked about a lot of things yesterday i understand that yesterday was a long long day and at the

same time it's so important.

We talked about how the family's place of evangelization.

It's a place of holiness, a place of growth and holiness.

It's also, we note that in paragraph 2230, that when they become adults, children have

the right and duty to choose their profession and state in life.

So parents should, yeah, weigh in and give their advice,

good advice. But the children, grown children, have the right and the duty to be able to make

their own decisions. Now, this is going to be important because paragraph 2232 today here has one of the,

well, I don't say one of the most important lines. It has a very important line. And we're talking about the goodness of the family. The family is good. Very, very good.

Paragraph 2232 highlights this truth. It says, family ties are important, but not absolute.

This is very important for us to understand. Family ties are important, but not absolute. And so there are times we recognize where Jesus even said this. He said, I've not come to establish peace, but the sword. He said from now on, families will be divided. Three against two, two against three. Father be divided against sons, son against father-in-law, mother-in-law, against daughter-in-law against mother-in-law. This is what's going to happen. Our primary allegiance, the absolute allegiance we owe is to the Lord himself. So family ties, important, but not absolute. To be a disciple of Jesus, paragraph 2233 says, becoming a disciple of Jesus means accepting the invitation to belong to God's family

and to living conformity with his way of life. We'll talk about that today as well as we're talking

about the fact of authorities in civil society. So God's Fourth Commandment also enjoins us to

honor all for who our good have received authority in society from God. We'll talk about that

as well. So in order to prepare our hearts for this

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