Day 53: Man in Paradise
The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz)
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🗓️ 22 February 2023
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
In the beginning, humans were in friendship with God and in harmony with creation. The Catechism unfolds this harmony and introduces us to the “original justice” that our first parents lost in sin. Fr. Mike reminds us that, although our original callings to leisure, love, and labor have been twisted by sin, they are renewed in Christ. Today's readings are Catechism paragraphs 374-384.
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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.
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 | I'm your name's Father Mike Schmitz and you're listening to the Catechism in a Year podcast, |
| 0:09.2 | where we encounter God's plan of sheer goodness for us, reveal then scripture and pass down |
| 0:13.4 | through the tradition of the Catholic faith. The Catechism in a Year is brought to you by |
| 0:16.7 | ascension in 365 days. We're almost there. We'll read through the Catechism of the Catholic Church, |
| 0:20.9 | discovering identity in God's family as we journey together toward a heavenly home. I said, |
| 0:25.1 | we're almost there. I mean, it's day 53. So I mean, we're closer than day one. That's that's |
| 0:29.9 | true. We're reading paragraphs, three 74 to 384. I'm using the ascension edition of the Catechism, |
| 0:35.2 | which includes the foundations of faith approach. You can follow along with any recent version of |
| 0:39.0 | the Catechism of the Catholic Church. If you want, you can also download your Catechism in your |
| 0:42.4 | reading plan by visiting ascensionpress.com slash the i y. Also, you can click follow or subscribe |
| 0:48.7 | in your podcast app for daily updates and daily notifications. See you guys the last couple days. |
| 0:54.3 | We've been talking about human beings. We've been talking about man and there are four |
| 0:59.4 | kind of aspects, for articles, for assertions, for things that we believe that can fall |
| 1:04.4 | into like four categories. Well, there's plenty of things we believe. But here are the four categories |
| 1:08.3 | in this section. We recognize that one male and female are made in the image of God. |
| 1:13.4 | Number two, human beings are made body and soul. We have this unity of the spiritual and |
| 1:18.7 | to material worlds. Number three, yesterday human beings are created male and female. And today, |
| 1:24.4 | number four, God established us in friendship. And this is us. That means so bear got three 74 |
| 1:29.7 | starts out with human beings are man in paradise. And then we have a little in brief. We have some |
| 1:34.2 | nuggets. It's not exclusively nugget day today. But we have some nuggets at the end of this section on |
| 1:39.2 | man. So what are we talking about today? Well, man in paradise is highlighting this reality. |
| 1:44.6 | The God made us for friendship with him that God made us not just to simply exist apart from him |
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