Day 309: Faithful and Fruitful Marriage (2024)

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

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🗓️ 4 November 2024

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Married love has an “innate language” of total and mutual self-giving. This language expresses itself in the marital act of sexual intimacy. Marital love mirrors God’s love. It is free, total, faithful, and fruitful. Fr. Mike explains that in the face of this reality, contraception and infidelity directly contradict the marital covenant between a man and a woman. Today’s readings are Catechism paragraphs 2364-2372.

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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0:00.0	Hi, my name's Father Mike Schmitz, and you're listening to the Catechism Any Year podcast, where we encounter God's plan of sure goodness for us, revealed in scripture and passed down through the tradition of the Catholic faith.
0:15.2	The Catechism in a Year is brought to you by Ascension. In 365 days, we'll read through the Catechism of the Catholic Church,
0:21.6	discovering our identity and God's family as we journey together toward our heavenly home.
0:25.7	This is day 309. We are reading paragraphs 2364 to 2372. As always, I'm using the
0:31.8	Ascension edition of the Catechism, which includes the Foundations of Faith Approach, but you can
0:35.6	follow along with any recent version of the Catechism of the Catholic Church. You can also download your own catechism in a year reading
0:41.3	plan by visiting ascensionpress.com and lastly, sorry, actually, ascensionpress.com slash
0:47.1	CIY. Wow, I forgot the last part. That stands for catechism in a year. And last,
0:53.2	you can click follow or subscribe in your
0:54.7	podcast app for daily updates and daily notifications. Today is day 309. We're reading paragraph
0:59.3	2364 to 2372. We're talking about conjugal fidelity as well as the fecundity of marriage.
1:06.1	This is, you know, if you remember yesterday, the very last line. You probably don't.
1:09.9	You might not because we talked about a lot of things yesterday, the very last line, you probably don't, you might not, because
1:10.9	we talked about a lot of things yesterday, most particularly same-sex attraction, but the last
1:15.9	line in paragraph 2363, it said, the conjugal love of man and woman thus stands under the
1:21.1	twofold obligation of fidelity and fecundity. So faithfulness and fruitfulness, essentially.
1:27.1	And so we're going to talk about for a couple
1:28.3	paragraphs, conjugal fidelity. What is it to be faithful? And also the fecundity of marriage. What is the
1:34.5	end of marriage? Well, fruitfulness is the end of marriage. And so we're to look at both of those things.
1:40.0	As we enter into today, let's take a moment, pause and call upon the name of our God and Lord Jesus Christ,
1:47.2	God, the Father, the Holy Spirit, and enter into prayer. Father in heaven, we praise you. In the name of
1:53.6	your son, Jesus Christ, we ask you to receive our praise. In the name of your son, Jesus Christ,
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