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 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 out of those 365. This is Day 316. We're reading paragraphs 2426 to 2436. As always, I'm using the Ascension edition of the Catechism, which includes a 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 lastly, you can click follow or subscribe in your podcast app for daily updates and daily notifications because today is day 316. You guys, you're trucking along. I mean, this is incredible. We are less than 50 days to go.

And that is remarkable, I think, as long as my math is right.

I think that's great. Today we're going to talk about, we're going to continue talking about the Seventh Commandment. And today, yesterday we talked about social doctrine of the church. Yesterday, we talked about the dignity, integrity of creation. Today we're looking at economic activity and social justice.

And we recognize that it says in the first paragraph 2426, it says the development of

economic activity and growth and production are meant to provide for the needs of human beings.

And so this is what it all comes back to. Human work is a good. No matter what the work is,

it is a good because it's human beings,

beings man in God's image and likeness that are doing it. And therefore, there are some laws

about when it comes to human work, what is in keeping with the integrity of the worker

and what could violate the integrity of the worker? So we're looking at some of those things

today as we launch into today.

Let's say a prayer.

Father in heaven, in the name of your son, Jesus Christ, we ask for your Holy Spirit to come

and guide our thoughts, guide our minds, open our minds so that we can hear your truth

and understand it.

God, God, give us a practical understanding of your wisdom and of your revelation.

Give us a practical understanding of what it is and how it is that you're calling us to do

and how it is you're calling us to live and work and approach our work and approach

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