Hi, my name's 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 307. We are reading paragraphs 2351 to 2356. As always, I am 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 slash CIY, and you can click follow or subscribe to your podcast app for daily updates and daily notifications today. As I said, is day 307 reading paragraphs 2351 to 2356. Yesterday we talked about the integrality of the gift of self and the various forms of

chastity, right?

Today, we're looking, kind of taking a turn.

And not a turn, but we're looking at what are the offenses against chastity?

So yesterday we talked about, and the day before, we talked about how chastity

means the successful

integration of sexuality within the person and thus the inner unity of man in his bodily and

spiritual being. And so that there's a goodness there, right? There's integrity we have to have,

and then the integrality of the gift that we're giving, making of ourselves to others. Now there's ways

we can sin against

chastity. And so I guess we can just kind of name them quickly before we launch into them today.

Generally speaking, there's lust. Then go on, well, how can lust be lived out? You know,

how that sin of lust be lived out or given into? One is by masturbation. One is by fornication.

One is by pornography. We have prostitution and rape today. So really serious topics.

Tomorrow, we're continuing to talk about serious topics. But today we have those. And you know,

when it comes to the commandments, we've talked about this so many times, there's the invitation

and the challenge. And there's the reality so many times. There's the invitation and the challenge.

And there's the reality that we can find ourselves in a place where, oh man, this is what I've done.

And we can be convicted by that. In this section today, there is that, oh, this is what I've done.

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