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. The Catechism in a year is brought to you by ascension.

In 365 days, we're almost there. We'll read through the Catechism of the Catholic Church, discovering our identity in God's family as we journeyed together toward a heavenly home. I said, we're almost there. I mean, it's Day 53, so, I mean, we're closer than day one. That's, that's true. We're reading paragraphs 374 to 384. I'm using the Ascension Edition of the Catechism, which includes the foundations of faith approach. You can follow along with any recent version of the Catechism of the Catholic Church. If you want, you can also download your catechism into your reading plan by visiting Ascensionpress.com slash C-I-Y. Also, you can click follow or subscribe in your podcast app for daily updates and daily notifications. See you guys. The last couple of days, we've been talking about human beings.

We've been talking about man.

And there were four kind of aspects, thorough articles, four, for assertions, for things

that we believe that can fall under like four categories.

Well, there's a bunch of things we believe.

But here are the four categories in this section.

We recognize that one, male and female

are made in the image of God. Number two, human beings are made body and soul, right? We have this

unity of the spiritual and material worlds. Number three, yesterday, human beings are created male and

female. And today, number four, God established us in friendship. And this is us. That means so

Bear God 374 starts out with human beings or man in paradise. And then we have a little in brief.

We have some nuggets. It's not exclusively nugget day today, but we have some nuggets at the end of this

section on man. So what are we talking about today? Well, man in paradise is highlighting this

reality that God made us

for friendship with him. That God made us not just to simply exist apart from him or to exist because

he just wants us to be out there somewhere, but he created us to be in relationship with him.

And when God originally created us, we had this thing called original unity,

we had this original holiness, with state of original justice. And there's something about this

that it says in paragraph 375 that the grace of original holiness was to share in divine life.

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