Day 51: Unity of Soul and Body (2025)

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

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🗓️ 20 February 2025

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Summary

The soul and the body “are not two natures united, but rather their union forms a single nature.” The Catechism introduces us to this profound mystery and begins to unpack our nature as a body and as a soul. Fr. Mike shows us how so much pain and confusion in modern times—and indeed throughout history—stems from an attempt to separate these two inseparable parts of our being. Today's readings are Catechism paragraphs 362-368.

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,
0:09.1	where we encounter God's plan of sheer goodness for us revealed in scripture and passed down
0:13.1	through the tradition of the Catholic faith. The Catechism in the year is brought to you by
0:16.5	Ascension. In 365 days, we'll read through the Catechism of the Catholic Church, discovering our identity and God's families.
0:22.3	We journey together toward our heavenly home.
0:23.7	This is Day 51.
0:25.0	That means we only have 3 hundred and 14 days left or something like that.
0:29.7	Is that right?
0:30.1	Is that accurate?
0:30.7	I think so.
0:31.4	I'm not sure.
0:32.1	Well, you guys, I'm using the Ascension Edition of the Catechism, which, as I said the other day, is gorgeous and beautiful and super
0:37.5	helpful. It also includes the foundations of faith approach, but you can follow along with any
0:41.4	recent version of the catechism of the Catholic Church. Same words, same thing. Awesome. Also, you can
0:46.0	download your cacism and your reading plan by visiting ascensionpress.com slash CI.
0:51.3	And lastly, you can click follow or subscribe in your podcast app to receive daily updates and daily
0:55.7	notifications. As I said, it's day 51. We're reading paragraphs 362 to 368. Today, here's the next
1:02.8	section. Remember that we're in the section about the person of man, like human beings. And there's
1:07.4	four sections that we talked about yesterday. He is in the image of God.
1:16.2	Male and female is in the image of God. In his own nature, he unites the spiritual and material worlds. That's today. Tomorrow, he is created male and female. And fourth, God established him in his
1:22.4	friendship. So we're going to talk about the soul. And the term soul has a number of different
1:26.5	uses throughout scripture and in the life of the term soul has a number of different uses throughout
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