Day 325: Battling for Purity (2024)

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

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🗓️ 20 November 2024

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

As Fr. Mike suggests, the battle for purity is never more difficult than in our own day. With God’s grace, we can prevail and find freedom from our temptations. Fr. Mike explains that we win this battle through chastity, purity of intention, purity of vision, and prayerful reliance on the Lord. He tells us how to pray for a pure gaze that allows us to see our brothers and sisters as God sees them. Today’s readings are Catechism paragraphs 2520-2533.

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,
0:09.3	where we encounter God's plan of sheer goodness for us, revealed in scripture, and passed down through the tradition of the Catholic faith.
0:14.9	The Catechism in a year is brought to you by Ascension. In 365 days, we'll read through the Catechism of the Catholic Church,
0:20.8	discovering our identity and God's family as we journey together toward our heavenly home.
0:24.8	This is Day 325. We're reading paragraphs 2520 to 2533 as always.
0:29.6	I'm using the Ascension edition of the Catechism, which includes the foundations of faith approach.
0:34.2	But you can follow along with any recent version of the Catechism of the Catholic Church.
0:41.7	You can also download your own catechism in a year reading plan by visiting ascensionpress.com slash CIY. And you can also click follow or subscribe in your podcast app for daily updates,
0:45.6	daily notification. Daily notification for today is a big thank you. Thank you for everyone
0:51.4	who has continued to pray for the production of this podcast. Thank you for your financial gifts. We couldn't do this without you. We could not get today 325 without you. So thank you so much. We're concluding today the Ninth Commandment. And we're talking about the Battle for Purity and as well as the Nuggets. But there's something so powerful about this, this recognition that remember we said yesterday, we pointed out that commandments nine and ten are kind of recapitulations of commandments six and seven, in that sense
1:16.7	of being able to say, okay, let's go to the heart, the heart of things. We might mention this
1:20.4	before, but John Paul the second, he talked about the ethos, and the ethos is the inner world
1:24.9	of a person, the thing that draws us to some things and
1:28.2	repels us from other things.
1:29.9	And that what we're called to have is we're called to have this ethos that is like that
1:33.8	of Jesus, right?
1:34.5	The ethos of God himself, where we're drawn to the good and we're actually repelled by the
1:39.5	bad.
1:39.8	And so we're going to talk a little bit about that here as we talk about the battle for purity
1:43.5	in our own hearts. So as we talk about the battle for purity, let's also pray for purity, because
1:49.2	we know, as we talked about yesterday, the pure and heart are the ones that will see God. And so we
1:53.1	all, we all want to see God. And therefore, we all need to have this purity of heart that can only
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