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

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This is Day 303. We're reading paragraphs 2318 to 2330. It's Nugget today. 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

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daily notifications because today is day 303 reading paragraphs 2318 to 2330. We've been talking about

the Fifth Commandment for quite a while.

Tomorrow, sixth commandment. But today, we're having this nugget review day. And there are quite a few

of them, which is wonderful, because we covered a ton of stuff recalling that from the very

beginning, in God's hands, is the life of every living thing in the breadth of all mankind.

That's from Job chapter 12, verse 10. That is our first nugget of the day all the way to the last nugget of the day, which is blessed out of the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God, Matthew chapter 5, verse 9. So the recognition here is that from the very beginning to the very end, our vision of the human person and how we treat other people in a moral way comes

from the Lord himself that comes from scripture. It comes from how God has revealed himself,

not just what he's revealed about who human beings are and what human beings are, but also how

he has revealed his own heart to us. And that's, that is absolutely key. What and who are human

beings? And then who is God and himself? And we're called to have the heart of the Lord himself. And when we deal with other people, at the minimum, do not take innocent human life. It goes beyond that, to loving our enemies, goes beyond that, to praying for those who hurt us. It goes beyond that, to caring for those who persecute us. And we can only do that

with God's grace. We can only do that if we have the heart of Christ in us. So we pray right now.

Let's do it. Father in heaven, we give you praise. We give you glory. We thank you. We recognize that

you have you've called us to an incredibly high call. In fact, this call is so high that

we cannot do it on our own. We cannot respond to your call unless we respond to your grace.

So in the name of Jesus Christ, I ask that you please open our hearts to receive your grace.

Give us the desire to have hearts like you.

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