Day 54: The Fall of Man (2025)

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

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🗓️ 23 February 2025

⏱️ 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 in a Year podcast,
0:09.2	where we encounter God's plan of sheer goodness for us, revealed in scripture, and passed it down to the tradition of the Catholic faith.
0:14.9	The Catechism in the Year is brought to you by ascension.
0:16.9	In 365 days, we'll read through the Catechism of the Catholic Church, discovering our identity in God's family, as we journeyed together toward our heavenly home.
0:23.6	It is Day 54.
0:25.0	We're reading paragraphs 385 to 390.
0:27.0	I'm using the Ascension edition of the Catechism, which includes the foundation of the faith approach.
0:30.9	You can follow along, though, with any recent version of the Catechism of the Catholic Church. Also, you can download your catechism into your reading plan by visiting ascensionpress.com
0:38.5	slash C-I-Y.
0:39.5	And also, you can click follow or subscribe in your podcast app for daily notifications and updates.
0:44.1	As I said, it's day 54, reading paragraphs 385 to 390.
0:47.1	The whole point of the next few days is going to be the fall.
0:50.9	And the reality of, gosh, that God made us free. And yet we experienced suffering.
0:56.7	God made us good. Yet we experienced suffering. God is good. And yet, where does evil come from?
1:01.3	This is the big question, the big question that we experience. And yet, the catechism will say,
1:06.5	and highlight this, that the only answer, you know, we said this before, that there's not, there's no easy answer, there's no simple answer. In fact, remember we said this before that
1:14.0	there's no part of the Christian message that is not at least in part an answer to the problem
1:19.7	of pain, right, to the problem of evil. And so here what we have in paragraph 385 is this
1:26.5	mystery of lawlessness, right? The mystery of evil is clarified only
1:30.8	in the light of the mystery of our religion. What's remarkable there is we all, we all know
1:38.0	the problem of pain. We all know the reality of evil. And the only people who can understand
1:43.2	where this comes from, the only people who can understand where this comes from, the only
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