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

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Ascension. In 365 days, we'll read through the Catechism of the Catholic Church, discovering our identity in God's family as we journey together toward our heavenly home. This is Day 299. That's amazing. That's amazing. We're reading paragraphs 2288 to 2291. 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 because today is day 299. That means we literally have 66 more days. That's awesome. That's incredible. I did that math in my head. You guys, I don't know if you're impressed by that. But day 299, reading paragraph 2288 to 2291. Yesterday we looked at respect for the souls of others, right? Respect for the dignity of the person, scandal. We also have respect for health. So today, paragraphs, these brief paragraphs for, it looks like we've been

sticking with the kind of the four paragraph motif for a few days now, but these four paragraphs talk

about respect for health. And so we recognize that health is a good, that that if we'd looked at

the soul yesterday, obviously respect for the souls of others.

And so a sin against that would be scandal.

We are also called to have respect not only for life in general, not only for spiritual life, but also for health.

So not only our own health, but also the health of others.

We are also going to talk about the virtue of

temperance, and that is incredibly important when we're looking at this, the goodness of the body

and the good that is health. So as we launch into today, these four short paragraphs, let us,

as always, launch into the Father's Heart as we pray.

Father in heaven, in the name of your son, Jesus Christ, I ask that you please help all of us in the midst of life. Help all of us in the midst of this day right now when we're listening

to these words. Help us all, whether we are healthy or sick, whether we are strong or weak,

whether we are whole or we find

ourselves broken in this moment. We ask that you please come and meet us. Meet us with your grace,

not only to heal our souls, but meet us with your grace to give us strength and body, give us

clarity of mind and thought, give us the ability to focus on the task at hand and the

strength to carry out, the courage to carry out, the task at hand. Whatever your will is for us,

Lord, in this moment, we ask you to give us the grace to be able to accept it, to enter into it,

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