Day 318: Love for the Poor (2024)

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

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🗓️ 13 November 2024

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

The Church’s charity for the poor is a “part of her constant tradition.” Fr. Mike unpacks how the poor are the “true treasure of the Church.” He emphasizes that when we give to the poor what they need, we satisfy the requirements of justice. He also reiterates the importance of mercy and showing mercy to others. Today’s readings are Catechism paragraphs 2443-2449.

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 in a Year podcast,
0:09.2	where we encounter God's plan of sheer goodness for us, revealed in scripture and passed down
0:13.4	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
0:21.0	discovering our identity and God's family as we journey together toward our heavenly home.
0:25.7	This is Day 318. We're reading paragraphs 2443 to 2449. As always, I'm using the
0:31.5	Ascension edition of the Catechism, which includes the Foundations of Faith Approach, but you can
0:35.1	follow along with any recent version of the Catechism of the Catholic Church. You can also download your own catechism in a year reading
0:40.6	plan by visiting ascensionpress.com slash CIY, and you can click follow or subscribe in your
0:44.9	podcast app to receive daily updates and daily notifications because today is day 318,
0:49.6	paragraph 2443 to 2449. We're talking about, as I mentioned last night, yesterday, whenever you listened to this, yesterday, about love for the poor.
0:59.2	Now, yesterday, of course, we talked about justice and solidarity among nations.
1:02.5	So here's this global international scale in which we're called to have this lens, these lenses, right, of justice, of solidarity, of charity of love.
1:13.3	And also, here today, the church says, let's key in on this and have a lens that is the lens of God. Because God has a lens
1:20.0	that he has a particular love for the poor. And this is going to be convicting. So for so many of us.
1:26.9	Now, in the last couple of days, we've talked about different political systems or economic
1:30.2	systems today.
1:32.0	Yep, there are some big ideas, but it is one of those days that brings up hopefully some
1:39.8	challenges.
1:40.5	And we've asked the question, okay, so then if this is the truth, and it is, what does that mean
1:46.2	for me?
1:47.8	If I'm called to cultivate a love for the poor, how do I do that in my life right now?
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