Day 50: The Dignity of Man (2025)
The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz)
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🗓️ 19 February 2025
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Summary
“God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him, male and female he created them” (Genesis 1:27). The Catechism teaches us about man’s God-given dignity and unique place in creation. Fr. Mike explains the unity that exists between all persons, and how this necessitates a “law of human solidarity and charity.” Today's readings are Catechism paragraphs 355-361.
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, |
| 0:09.4 | 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 |
| 0:17.0 | Ascension. In 365 days, we'll read through the Catechism of the Catholic Church, |
| 0:24.4 | discovering our identity and God's family. As we journey together toward our heavenly home, |
| 0:30.7 | it is day 50. Congratulations, you made it to today. We're reading paragraphs 355 to 361. As always, |
| 0:34.2 | 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, obviously. You can also download your catechism in your |
| 0:40.3 | reading plan by visiting ascensionpress.com slash CIY. Also, you can click follow or subscribe |
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| 0:50.8 | Also, I want to thank you. Thank you for all of those people who have supported the production of this podcast with prayers, financial gifts, because it is such an incredible gift |
| 0:58.8 | to have your prayers and to know of your prayers, to know of your financial support because, |
| 1:02.3 | you know, take something to make this podcast and offer it for free. So thank you so very much. |
| 1:06.8 | As I said, it is a 50 today reading paragraph 355 in the 361. We're in a new |
| 1:12.2 | catechism paragraph. So paragraph six, man, last was paragraph five, heavens and earth. Now we're |
| 1:18.1 | specifically focusing on human beings. One thing to note, obvious, maybe it's not obvious, |
| 1:22.7 | that when we talk about man, we're talking about human beings, right it's just the the way that people have spoken |
| 1:28.3 | for a really really long time and use the term man to mean all of human beings it's kind of an |
| 1:33.8 | obvious kind of a thing but I just wanted to highlight that so that whenever we say that term |
| 1:38.6 | man in the readings here unless it specifies male or female it means human beings also what |
| 1:44.0 | are we going to hear about |
| 1:44.6 | today? There is a remarkable thing. So for the next few days, we're going to look at human beings. |
| 1:51.6 | And first, in paragraph 35, it kind of establishes here's the roadmap for the next few days. |
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