Day 54: The Fall of Man (2024)

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

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🗓️ 23 February 2024

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

The Catechism introduces us to the Fall, beginning with the reality of sin and the mystery of evil. Fr. Mike highlights the fact that sin is not “a developmental flaw, a psychological weakness, a mistake, or the necessary consequence of an inadequate social structure,” but it is man saying, “not your will, but mine be done” to God. Today's readings are Catechism paragraphs 385-390.

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
0:08.1	in a year podcast, when we encounter God's plan of sheer goodness for us,
0:11.2	revealed in scripture, and passed down to the tradition of
0:13.7	the Catholic faith.
0:15.0	The Catechism in the year is brought to you by ascension.
0:17.0	In 365 days, we'll read through the Catechism of the Catholic Church, discovering our identity
0:20.8	in God's family as we journeyed together toward a heavenly home
0:23.6	it is day 54 grading paragraphs 385 to 390 I'm using the ascension edition of the
0:28.4	Catechism which includes the foundation of the faith approach you can follow
0:31.3	along though with any recent version of the
0:33.0	Catechism of the Catholic Church also you could download your
0:35.6	Catechism in your reading plan by visiting ascension press.com slash the
0:38.9	I y and also you can click follow or subscribe in your podcast app for daily notifications and updates.
0:44.0	As I said, it's day 54 reading paragraphs 385 to 390. The whole point of the next few days
0:49.7	is going to be the fall and the reality of, gosh, that God made us free and yet we experienced
0:56.2	suffering. God made us good, yet we experienced suffering. God is good and yet where does
1:00.4	evil come from? This is the big question that we experience and yet
1:05.0	the catechism will say and highlight this that the only answer you know we said
1:09.3	this before that there's not there's no easy answer there's no simple answer in fact remember we said this before that there's no easy answer, there's no simple answer. In fact, remember we said this before that there's no part of the Christian message that is not at least in part an answer to the problem of pain, right, to the problem of evil.
1:22.0	And so here what we have in paragraph 385
1:25.0	is this mystery of lawlessness, right, the mystery of evil,
1:29.0	is clarified only in the light of the mystery of our religion.
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