Day 326: Envy and Jealousy (2025)

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

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🗓️ 22 November 2025

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Envy is “the diabolical sin,” says St. Augustine. Christians should better understand this capital sin, its manifestations, and the temptation toward envy of God and neighbor. In this episode, Fr. Mike considers jealousy and envy, noting man's desire to covet and lust. He explains that the tenth commandment develops and completes the ninth. Today’s readings are Catechism paragraphs 2534-2543.

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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Please note: The Catechism of the Catholic Church contains adult themes that may not be suitable for children - parental discretion is advised.

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0:58.5	Hi, my name is Father Mike Schmitz, and you're listening to the Catechism in a Year podcast,
1:02.6	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.
1:06.6	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 326. We're reading paragraphs 2534 to 2543. As always, I'm using the Ascension edition of the Catechism, which 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 by visiting ascenturepress.com slash CIY, and you can click follow or subscribe to your podcast app for daily updates. And the end of notifications. We are just here on day 326 launching into our last commandment. We have two more days, including today, of pillar three. And then then we're going to launch. we're going to talk to Sister Miriam, and we are going to days including today of pillar three and then then we're going to launch we're
1:45.2	going to talk to sister miriam and we are going to have the beginning of pillar four the final
1:49.9	pillar of the catechism you guys congratulations as we launch into the 10th commandment talking about
1:54.6	the 10th commandment what is it remember we talked about this maybe the last three days
1:58.2	commandment number nine a commandment number 10 are kind of the
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