Hi, my name is 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 304.

We're reading paragraphs 231 to 2336.

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. 304, we're starting the new commandment, the sixth commandment. You shall not commit adultery. We're looking at, here's what it is to be human. You know, the last couple days we've been talking about, when I say a couple days, I mean, it's been weeks, I think. We've been talking about the dignity of the human person. We talked about that yesterday. Today, there's some unique aspects to the human person as well. And part of that uniqueness of the human person as well as

almost all of created animals is from Genesis chapter one, male and female he created them,

which is common to a lot of animals and the same time is unique to human beings. It reveals

something about what the human person is and what the human person is made for to realize

that, okay, God made human beings male and female. There's something about the complementarity

of the sexes. It's incredible. So here God makes us, you know, God could have made us like

the angels. He made the angels first anyways. And the angels don't reproduce.

God just makes them by surely willing their existence. But when he made human beings, when he made

this planet, he made creatures, male and female. He made us in his own image, male and female.

And the fact that God has given us what we call sexuality

is remarkable. It's worth stopping and noting. It didn't have to be this way. It is this way.

So we have to ask, what does that tell us? And that's what we're looking at today. We're just

beginning to look at this today. What does it tell us to be made in God's image and likeness

and to be made male and female?

So let's take a look as we dive into these first paragraphs. We first dive into the Lord's heart

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