Day 41: Origins and Ends
The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz)
Ascension
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🗓️ 10 February 2023
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
Together with Fr. Mike, we examine some of the different explanations for God’s existence outside of the Catholic understanding, such as Pantheism, Dualism, Manichaeism, and Deism. Fr. Mike explains that while some understanding of man’s origin can be perceived through human reason and the natural world, we also need Revelation, as it answers many questions about creation we could never possibly hope to answer with reason alone. Today's readings are Catechism paragraphs 285-289.
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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.
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 in a Year Podcast, |
| 0:09.2 | where we encounter God's plan of sheer goodness for us, revealed in Scripture and passed down to |
| 0:13.0 | the tradition of the Catholic faith. The Catechism in a Year is brought to you by Ascension. |
| 0:16.9 | In 365 days, we'll read through the Catechism of the Catholic Church, discovering our identity |
| 0:21.6 | in God's family as we journey together toward our heavenly home. This is day 41, we're reading |
| 0:25.5 | paragraphs 285 to 29, as always I'm using the Ascension edition of the Catechism, which includes |
| 0:30.0 | the foundations of faith approach, but you can follow along with any recent version. |
| 0:33.6 | Also, you can download your Catechism in a year reading plan by visiting ascensionpress.com, |
| 0:37.5 | slash C-I-Y and lastly. You can click follow or subscribe in your podcast app for daily updates |
| 0:42.4 | and daily notifications. It, as I said, is day 41, we're reading paragraphs 285 to 29. This is |
| 0:48.0 | continued Catechism on creation. We're going to be second with creation for quite a little bit. |
| 0:51.8 | Tomorrow, we'll talk about like we'll crack into the importance and what's revealed to us in |
| 0:57.5 | Genesis chapters 1 through 3, which is amazing and incredible. But today, we're all going to |
| 1:02.4 | continue what we talked about yesterday, which is the fact that people have always asked the |
| 1:06.9 | questions, who are we? Where are we going? Where'd we come from? What's our origin? What's our |
| 1:10.9 | end? That kind of situation. We're also going to talk about the fact that a paragraph 285 will |
| 1:14.9 | highlight this. That's since the beginning of Christian faith or since the beginning of everything. |
| 1:20.9 | The Christian faith has been challenged by responses to the questions of origins that differ from |
| 1:25.0 | our own. So we have a very specific response of how the world, how everything started. And so |
| 1:31.5 | paragraph 285 will go into a number of different theories for the creation and origin of the universe. |
| 1:37.6 | Some people will talk about pantheism, like God is everything essentially or everything is God |
| 1:41.6 | essentially as well. Also dualism where there's good and evil battling it out. We'll talk about |
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