Day 312: Polygamy, Incest, and Free Union (2024)

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

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🗓️ 7 November 2024

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

The Catechism continues on with other offenses against the dignity of marriage and concludes our look at the sixth commandment. Polygamy, incest, sexual abuse, and free union are reviewed in detail. Fr. Mike highlights that these sins are grave, but God gives hope to all of us experiencing wounds or guilt. We have the opportunity to change in order to live in accordance with the Gospel. Today’s readings are Catechism paragraphs 2387-2400.

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 is Father Mike Schmitz, and you're listening to The Catechism in a Year podcast,
0:09.3	where we encounter God's plan of sheer goodness for us, revealed in scripture and passed down
0:13.6	through the tradition of the Catholic faith. The Catechism in a year is brought to you by
0:16.8	ascension. In 365 days, we'll read through the Catechism of the Catholic Church discovering
0:21.2	our identity at God's family as we journey together toward our heavenly home. This is Day
0:25.0	312. We're reading paragraphs 2387 all the way to the end to paragraph 2400 to the Nuggets.
0:31.9	As always, I am using the Ascension edition of the Catechism, which includes the Foundations of Faith
0:36.3	Approach, but you can follow along with any recent version of the catechism of the Catholic Church. You can also download
0:41.1	your own catechism in a year reading plan by visiting ascensionpress.com slash cI, and you can
0:46.1	click follow or subscribe to your podcast app for daily updates and daily notifications today.
0:50.5	It's day 312 reading, as I said, paragraphs 2387 all the way to the end of this commandment
0:55.0	2,400 we have a number of nuggets quite at the end today as we talked about for the last couple
1:00.6	days yesterday we talked about two offenses against the dignity of marriage as adultery and
1:05.5	divorce today the catechism also lists a couple of other offenses against the dignity of
1:10.6	marriage we recognize that not only are these what we're going a couple of other offenses against the dignity of marriage.
1:10.9	We recognize that not only are these what we're going to talk about today, offenses against
1:14.8	the dignity of marriage, but there are also offenses against, of course, God's law itself,
1:19.3	as well as offenses against the dignity of each person, right?
1:23.7	So the dignity of the man, the dignity of the woman, or the dignity of the children.
1:28.0	And so we recognize that these are, just like we talked about the last number of days, these
1:33.0	are very serious offenses against the dignity of marriage. And so we always ask the Lord,
1:38.9	whenever I guess, you know, of course, as I keep saying, everything we're talking about is very
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