Day 304: Male and Female

The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz)

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🗓️ 31 October 2023

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

Why did God create us male and female? We begin our journey through the sixth commandment by learning about the meaning of human sexuality and the complementarity between men and women. Fr. Mike underscores the significance of the body in revealing our sexuality and our vocation to love. Today’s readings are Catechism paragraphs 2331-2336.

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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Please note: The Catechism of the Catholic Church contains adult themes that may not be suitable for children - parental discretion is advised.

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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,
0:09.0	where we encounter God's plan of sheer goodness for us, revealed in Scripture and passed
0:13.0	down through the tradition of the Catholic faith.
0:15.0	The Catechism in a Year is brought to you by Ascension.
0:17.0	In 365 days, we'll read through the Catechism of the Catholic Church, discovering our identity
0:22.0	and God's family as we journey together toward our heavenly home.
0:25.0	This is day 304, where you're reading paragraphs 2, 3, 3, 1, to 2, 3, 3, 6.
0:30.0	As always, I'm using the Ascension edition of the Catechism, which includes the foundations of faith approach,
0:35.0	but you can follow along with any recent version of the Catechism of the Catholic Church.
0:39.0	You can also download your own Catechism in a Year reading plan by visiting AscensionPress.com slash C-i-y.
0:45.0	And lastly, you can click follow or subscribe on your podcast app for daily updates and daily notifications today.
0:51.0	304, we're starting the new commandment, the sixth commandment.
0:54.0	You shall not commit adultery. We're looking at, here's what it is to be human.
0:57.0	You know, the last couple of days we've been talking about when I say a couple of days.
1:00.0	I mean, it's been weeks, I think.
1:02.0	We've been talking about the dignity of the human person.
1:04.0	We talked about that yesterday.
1:05.0	Today, there's some unique aspects to the human person as well.
1:09.0	And part of that uniqueness of the human person, as well as almost all created animals,
1:14.0	is from Genesis 1, male and female he created them, which is common to a lot of animals.
1:20.0	And the same time is unique to human beings.
1:23.0	It reveals something about what the human person is and what the human person is made for to realize that,
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