Day 323: Truth, Beauty, and Sacred Art (2024)
The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz)
Ascension
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🗓️ 18 November 2024
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
Have you ever been moved by beauty? As we conclude our journey through the eighth commandment, we learn that beautiful art points us to the truth and perfection of God. Lastly, Fr. Mike reminds us that this commandment encourages us to always walk in the light and bear witness to Christ in all we say and do. Today’s readings are Catechism paragraphs 2500-2513.
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 Any Year podcast, |
| 0:09.2 | where we encounter God's plan of sheer goodness for us, revealed in scripture, and passed down |
| 0:13.3 | through the tradition of the Catholic faith. The Catechism in a year is brought to you by ascension. |
| 0:17.2 | In 365 days, we'll read through the Catechism of the Catholic Church discovering our identity and God's family as we journeyed together toward our heavenly home. |
| 0:24.4 | This is Day 323. We're reading paragraphs 2,500 to 2513. 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 your reading plan by visiting ascensionpress.com |
| 0:40.1 | and you can also click follow or subscribe to your podcast app for daily updates. |
| 0:44.5 | And daily notifications today is our last day of the Eighth Commandment. |
| 0:47.9 | Yesterday we talked about the respect for the truth as well as the use of social communications |
| 0:53.2 | media. |
| 0:54.1 | And today, we're taking a next step. |
| 0:56.1 | And I think this is fascinating because when we talk about the truth, sometimes we just think, |
| 1:00.5 | okay, don't lie. But we've seen over the last couple days. Okay, that's not just that. It's also, |
| 1:05.5 | how do I live in the truth? How do I bear witness to the truth? What are some offenses against |
| 1:09.8 | truth? And also today, |
| 1:11.7 | the connection between truth and beauty is just remarkable. So we're talking about beauty. And also, |
| 1:17.3 | before we get to the nuggets today, we're going to talk about sacred art or art in general and then |
| 1:21.4 | sacred art in particular as well, and the goodness and the value and how truth and truth and beauty are related and so as we launch into |
| 1:29.5 | today let's say a prayer father in heaven we give you praise and we thank you for this day thank you for |
| 1:34.1 | the beauty of this day the goodness of this day we ask that you help us to recognize beauty |
| 1:38.7 | in your creation help us to recognize beauty in each other help us to recognize beauty in what you |
| 1:44.0 | have made and help us to recognize the beauty with other. Help us to recognize beauty in what you have made. |
| 1:44.9 | And help us to recognize the beauty with which you've created us. |
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