Day 48: Creation in Order
The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz)
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🗓️ 17 February 2023
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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. God created wills the interdependence of all creatures, and all of creation is placed under the dominion of human beings. God gave us the world for our use, but not for our abuse. Man, made in the image and likeness of God, is the summit of the Creator’s work, and we are charged with caring for the natural world and all of its creatures. Today’s readings are Catechism paragraphs 337-343.
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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 the Year Podcast, |
| 0:09.2 | where we encounter God's plan of sheer goodness for us, revealed in Scripture and passed down |
| 0:13.6 | to the tradition of the Catholic faith. The Catechism in the years brought to you by Ascension. |
| 0:17.7 | In 365 days, we'll read through the Catechism of the Catholic Church discovering our identity |
| 0:22.1 | in God's family as we journey together toward our Heavenly home. It is day 48 where reading |
| 0:26.2 | paragraphs, 337-343, The Visible World, the beginning of the visible world, at least I'm using |
| 0:32.2 | the Ascension edition of the Catechism, which includes the foundations of faith approach, but you can |
| 0:35.7 | follow along with any recent version of the Catechism of the Catholic Church. Also, you can download |
| 0:40.1 | your Catechism in a year reading plan for free, whenever you want, by visiting AscensionPress.com, |
| 0:45.5 | slash C-I-Y. Also, you can click follow or subscribe in your podcast app to receive daily updates |
| 0:51.2 | and daily notifications. As I said, today we're looking at the visible world. We also talked, we |
| 0:56.2 | talked to the last couple days about angels in the life of the church, angels as they are, angels |
| 1:00.7 | in what their purpose is, their nature is spirit, but their function is messenger, right? Their |
| 1:05.5 | function is angel. Now, today we have the visible world. That was the unseen world, the invisible |
| 1:11.8 | world that the part, I guess that would maybe abide in the heavens, but here is also the visible |
| 1:17.5 | world. A couple of things we're going to note is every paragraph, if you're looking at your |
| 1:22.0 | ascension edition of the Catechism, you recognize that every paragraph begins more or less, |
| 1:26.4 | begins with some italicized phrases or italicized words. For example, in paragraph 338, it says, |
| 1:33.1 | nothing exists that does not owe its existence to God the Creator. So every, essentially, every |
| 1:38.7 | paragraph has kind of a thesis statement, and then the rest of the paragraph kind of breaks it down. |
| 1:43.6 | Then paragraph 339 says, each creature possesses its own particular goodness and perfection. Again, |
| 1:49.2 | talking about that, the recognition that since God created all things, all things essentially |
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