Hi, my name's 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 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 our identity and God's family as we journey together toward our heavenly home. This is day 292. We're reading paragraphs 2258 to 2262. As always, I am 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. probably know that by now. You can also download your own catechism and year reading plan by visiting ascensionpress.com slash CIY. And lastly, you can click follow or subscribe in your podcast app for daily updates and daily notifications. Today is day 292. We're jumping into, we're leaving, we're departing the Fourth Commandment, not leaving it behind, but just, you know, moving on to the

next commandment, the fifth commandment, Article 5, thou shalt not kill, you shall not kill.

And so today we're going to talk about basically just some of the first paragraphs, the foundation

for this command of against killing.

Now, obviously, maybe it's obvious, but the foundations for this is the foundation for all of the last seven

commandments, right? Commandments four through ten have as their foundation piece the dignity of

the human person. Therefore, the foundation of the Fifth Amendment is the dignity of the human

person and that every taking of an innocent human life is against this fifth commandment.

So we're looking at that as well as respect for human life and the witness of sacred history

when it comes to this command of you shall not take an innocent human being's life.

So as we launch into today, let's call upon our Heavenly Father and His Son and the Holy Spirit

to be with us now. Father in heaven,

we praise you and we glorify your name. In the name of your Son, Jesus Christ, we ask that

you be glorified. We ask that you be known and loved throughout this world. We ask that you please

help us. Help us to recognize in our brothers and sisters, those among us, a dignity, the dignity that comes from you, the worth and the

value that comes from you. Lord, God, help us to always treat each other with that respect,

help us always treat each other with that dignity, and help us always to be examples then of

those who walk in this world, bearing your name and seeing your light in others. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen.

The name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. It is day 292. We're reading paragraphs

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