Day 48: Creation in Order (2025)

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

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🗓️ 17 February 2025

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

God created all of the visible world in richness, diversity, and order, and everything owes its existence to God. Because all of creation comes from God, every creature has its own goodness and perfection and God wills the interdependence of all creatures. Father Mike helps us to see that God gave us the world for our use, but not for our abuse. Human beings are made in the image and likeness of God and we are charged with caring for the natural world and all of its creatures. Today’s readings are Catechism paragraphs 337-343.

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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0:00.0	Hi, my name is Father Mike Schmitz, and you're listening to the Catechism in a Year podcast,
0:09.4	where we encounter God's plan of sheer goodness for us, revealed in scripture, and passed down
0:13.6	through the tradition of the Catholic faith. The Catechism in a year is brought to you by
0:17.1	Ascension. In 365 days, we'll read through the Catechism of the Catholic Church
0:21.2	discovering our identity in God's family as we journey together toward our heavenly home.
0:24.9	It is day 48. We're reading paragraphs 337 through 343, the visible world, the beginning of the visible
0:30.8	world, at least I'm using the Ascension edition of the Catechism, which includes the foundations of
0:35.0	faith approach, but you can follow along with any recent version of the Catechism 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. Also, you can download your
0:40.4	catechism and year reading plan for free whenever you want by visiting ascensionpress.com
0:45.5	slash CIY. Also, you can click follow or subscribe in your podcast app to receive daily updates
0:51.3	and daily notifications. As I said, today we're looking at the visible world.
0:55.4	We also talked, we talked the last couple days about angels in the life of the church,
0:59.0	angels as they are, angels in what their purposes.
1:01.7	You know, their nature is spirit, but their function is messenger, right?
1:05.5	Their function is angel.
1:07.4	Now, today we have the visible world.
1:09.6	That was the unseen world, the invisible world, that part, I guess, that would maybe abide
1:14.6	in the heavens.
1:15.7	But here is also the visible world.
1:18.9	A couple things we're going to note is every paragraph, if you're looking at your Ascension
1:22.5	edition of the Catechism, you recognize that every paragraph begins, more or less, begins
1:26.9	with some italicized phrases or
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