Hi, my name's Father Mike Schmitz, and you're listening to the Catechism in a Year podcast,

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This is Day 296.

We're reading paragraphs 2276 through 2,279.

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 your 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 296. We're talking yesterday. You know, we had, well, this is all serious, obviously.

Yesterday we talked about abortion. And today we're going on to euthanasia. And so the recognition is only four paragraphs. But the recognition of these last few days today and the next couple

days are going to be very, very, again, let's give the context. It's always serious.

But we live in such a world where these issues, issues of euthanasia, of abortion, tomorrow, of suicide, these things touch our lives.

And they're not just, I don't want to say small things that touch our lives, as if the first couple commandments we talked about are small, as if

they are small, they're not small. But there's something that is gravely disruptive about these

sins. What I mean by that is, is they break our hearts, right? They, I mean, we'll say it like

this. I can get away with skipping mass in some ways, right? I can get away with not resting on taking that rest on the Lord's day. And it doesn't break my heart, right? It doesn't

necessarily, I don't necessarily feel it in the depths of grief. But these sins, and maybe I should,

and then keep that in mind, maybe I should, because they are sins directly against the Lord. But here we have, yesterday again, abortion, here we have today, euthanasia, tomorrow's suicide, and these sins directly affect our hearts in a different way. Is that makes sense? I make sense. I just, you probably knew all that already. I just wanted to note it before we go any further. So as I said,

there's four paragraphs. Today we're talking about euthanasia, which is essentially,

euthanasia itself is a Greek word, right? That means good death. So you, that EU is good. And then

Thanatos or Thanos would be death. You're like, wait a second. Like the marvels? Yes,

that's like Thanatos, Thanos, death. It's a euphem a second, like the marvels. Yes, that's like Thanatos,

Thanos, death. It's a euphemism, really, which is funny because euphemism means good words,

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