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 New 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 315. We're reading paragraph 2415 to 2425. As always, I am using the Ascension edition of the Catechism, which is amazing, and it also 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

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I don't know if maybe we edit all these things down and make them shorter, but man, oh man,

they have been so long. Thank you so much for your faithfulness or your prayers for all those

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Here we go. As we launch into day 315, we recognize that we're

going to talk about the respect for the integrity of creation, right? So the goodness of the earth.

We recognize that just like we looked at our own lives and say, okay, here are the gifts I have,

here are the things I worked for, here are my material goods. I'm a steward of my material goods, I'm a steward of my material goods, just like I'm called to be a steward, not an owner of the

earth. We're also going to look at, in a unique way, the social doctrine of the church, which developed

basically, well, in the 19th century, when the gospel encountered modern industrial society. Because,

you know, up until then, the world was relatively stable and I say stable I don't mean like

there was no wars there's no famine there's no there's a lot of stuff that went on but things

radically changed with the introduction of the industrial society the industry they even called

it the industrial revolution remember that from class so the church basically encounters this

kind of whole new world and so creates this social doctrine of the church in the 19th century.

So we're to look at that and also dive into just this, how is it that God is calling us through

his church to engage in this world. So that's what we're looking at today, paragraphs 2415 to 2425

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