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 here 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 to our heavenly home.

This is Day 305. We're reading paragraphs 2337 to 2345. As always, I am using the Ascension edition of the Catechism, which includes a foundation of faith approach, but you can follow along with any recent version of the Catechism, the Catholic Church. You can also download your own catechism and year reading plan by visiting ascensionpress.com slash CIY, and you can click follow or subscribe in your podcast app for daily updates and daily notifications. As we start today, day 305, I just want to thank you so much. Thank you all of you who have been praying. Again, Day 305 means there's 60 days left.

And I'm not trying to count down the days. I'm not like one of those people who thinks like, oh my goodness, we're almost done. But I'm kind of like, this is amazing. You, I'm so proud of you, guys. This is amazing. And thank you so much for your prayers, for praying for each other. Again, as we go through all of these teachings, as we hit these commandments, oftentimes, right,

it's the invitation and it's the challenge. It is the reality that none of us are called here

to simply have the information transfer, right? We're not just called to learn more, or called to be

transformed by the Lord, by his grace, by his teaching. And so, I'm so proud of you and so grateful

for you. Thank you for your prayers. Thank you for I'm so proud of you and so grateful for you.

Thank you for your prayers. Thank you for your financial support because we couldn't do this without you. Today, we're going to continue talking about the vocation to chastity. So yesterday, we had the introduction of the Sixth Commandment. It's kind of funny, Sextth Commandment, because that's one way to think of it. One way to think of this, I'm not sure if this is a throwaway thing. I always think, did I mention this before? The Fifth Commandment, someone once

told me, and i was probably in my teenage years and so it just stuck with me and i thought it was kind of funny they said you can remember the fifth commandment thou shalt not kill because it takes five fingers to strangle someone okay i'm so sorry about that but that's what i remembered And if you want to remember the Fifth Commandment, there it is, that image, if you, if you want. And the Sixth Commandment about sexuality is kind of like the Sext Commandment. I don't know if that helps anybody, but if it helps you, that is wonderful. And if it doesn't, please forget that I said anything about this, that would be awesome. Anyways, moving on yesterday, we started talking about the Sixth Commandment,

right? You shall not commit adultery. And there was this massive, I think a pretty big statement.

It says, the tradition of the church is in paragraph 2336, the last paragraph we had yesterday.

The tradition of the Church has understood the Sixth

Commandment as encompassing the whole of human sexuality. And so it's not just about thou shalt

not commit adultery, but it informs the way in which what is the purpose of sex? What is the

meaning of being made, male and female? That there is a meaning there and that there's a purpose

there. In fact, the purpose is oriented towards a vocation. And so we're going to talk about, we're going to begin talking about that today. And the primary vocation, it says here, the vocation to chastity. Now, sometimes people think, oh, wait, chastity like what priests and nuns have? Like, they don't you know, they don't enter into the sexual embrace. No, that's celibacy. Chastity is different. In fact,

chastity is given. and nuns have, like, they don't, you know, they don't enter into the sexual embrace?

No, that's celibacy.

Chastity is different.

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