Day 49: We Are Created For Worship (2025)
The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz)
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🗓️ 18 February 2025
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Summary
There is a solidarity among all of God’s creatures because all are oriented to give glory to God. We learn that God created the world in six days and rested on the seventh day, sanctifying it and blessing it. Fr. Mike tells us that all creatures were made with a view to the Sabbath, created for the worship and adoration of God. We are all called to the sacred task of worshiping God and nothing else should take precedence over it. We end with an “In Brief” review of all we have learned in recent sessions about the physical world, the spiritual world, angels, and creation. Today’s readings are Catechism paragraphs 344-354.
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's Father Mike Schmitz, and you're listening to the Catechism in a Year podcast, where we encounter God's plan of sheer goodness for us, revealed in scripture, and passed down through the tradition of the Catholic faith. |
| 0:15.4 | The Catechism in a year is brought to you by Ascension. In 365 days, we'll read through the Catechism of the Catholic Church |
| 0:20.9 | discovering our identity and God's family as we journey together toward our heavenly home. |
| 0:24.7 | It is day 49. You guys, we are one day shy of 50. That's incredible. We're reading paragraphs |
| 0:29.0 | 344 to 354, the end of that section on heaven and earth. I'm using, if you don't know, |
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| 0:38.1 | foundation of faith approach. |
| 0:39.3 | It is, you know, you can use any recent version of the Catechism of the Catholic Church, |
| 0:43.6 | and you'll get so much out of it. |
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| 1:00.3 | to receive daily updates and daily notifications. As I said, it's day 49 paragraphs 344 to 354. |
| 1:07.3 | We're concluding that paragraph five on heaven and earth. We talked about angels. We talked |
| 1:12.6 | about angels in the life of the church. We also talked about the visible world that God created. |
| 1:16.6 | And today, we're continuing what we said yesterday. There is an interdependence among all |
| 1:21.1 | creatures, right? We talked about that. We talked about how man is the summit of the creator's work. |
| 1:25.9 | Today, in paragraph 344, we recognize that there's also |
| 1:28.8 | a solidarity among all creatures, noting that we all have the same source, right? We all have the |
| 1:33.0 | same creator, and we all have the same end. That's so important, recognizing that all of |
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