Day 301: Peace (2025)
The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz)
Ascension
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🗓️ 28 October 2025
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
Peace is not simply an absence of war. Fr. Mike breaks down the Catechism’s teachings about peace as the "work of justice and the effect of charity.” We learn that to cultivate true peace, we must do more than avoid anger, hatred, and harm to our neighbor; we must actively work toward becoming agents of peace. Today’s readings are Catechism paragraphs 2302-2306.
This episode has been found to be in conformity with the Catechism by the Institute on the Catechism, under the Subcommittee on the Catechism, USCCB.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, my name is Father Mike Schmitz, and you're listening to the Catechism in a Year podcast, |
| 0:09.5 | where we encounter God's plan of sheer goodness for us revealed in scripture and passed down |
| 0:13.9 | to the tradition of the Catholic faith. The Catechism in the Year is brought to you by Ascension. |
| 0:17.8 | 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 a 301. We're reading paragraphs 2302 to 2306. 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 |
| 0:41.7 | ascensionpress.com slash CIY, and you can click follow or subscribe in your podcast app for daily |
| 0:47.2 | updates and daily notifications. Today is day 301. We're looking at peace, and that's the word of the day. |
| 0:52.8 | The word of the day is peace. And so the topic or the header of this little, not mini section, but this subsection is safeguarding peace. Today we're talking about peace. And peace is very, very clearly, not merely the absence of war. That's in paragraph 230 or four. So this is really important. Peace is not merely the absence of war, and it is not limited to maintaining a balance of war. That's in paragraph 23 or 4. So this is really important. Peace is not merely the absence of |
| 1:11.6 | war and it is not limited to maintaining a balance of power between adversaries. So we can think of |
| 1:17.4 | like say the Cold War, a balance of power between adversaries. Here is the Soviet Union and the |
| 1:22.0 | United States of America that, okay, we had peace because we didn't have all out war. No, no, no. |
| 1:26.3 | That is not peace. |
| 1:32.4 | Peace is the work of justice and the effect of charity. So again, not merely the absence of war and not merely a balance of powers between adversaries, people who are enemies with each other. |
| 1:37.0 | And at the same time, to really shoot for true peace is ultimately the work of justice |
| 1:44.8 | and the effect of love. |
| 1:47.2 | So they hope that makes sense. |
| 1:48.6 | We're gonna look at hatred today and anger as well. |
| 1:51.2 | And so these big pieces, ha, pieces, P-I-E-C-E-C-E-S, |
| 1:55.9 | these pieces that lead to peace |
| 1:59.1 | or these things that work against peace. |
| 2:01.7 | So anger and hatred, deliberate hatred is contrary to love. |
| 2:06.5 | You know, this whole commandment, the Fifth Commandment, |
| 2:09.3 | we've been looking at, I think, some depth. |
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