Hi, my name is Father Mike Schmitz, and you're listening to the Catechism in a Year podcast,

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In 365 days, we'll read through the Catechism of the Catholic Church, discovering our identity in God's family as we journey together toward our heavenly home. It is Day 57 reading paragraphs 402 to 406. Oh my gosh. As always, I'm using the Ascension edition of the Catechism, which includes the Foundations of Faith approach, but you can follow along with any recent version of the Catechism of the Catholic Church. Also, you can download your free categism in a year reading plan by visiting

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in your podcast app for daily updates and daily notifications. It is day 57. As I said,

you guys, congratulations. This is really good. I know. I said this a thousand times now. Well, it can't be a thousand because it's only the 57. But the fact that you've stuck with this, you know, I imagine by now, hopefully you've gotten to a kind of a rhythm where you realize, okay, this is different than listening to the Bible. This is going to be a little bit different in like how you engage your brain when it comes to we're not following a story, but we're following this actually, you know, when we talk about original sin, we talk about the fall. We are kind of following a story. In fact, these are some of the things that we can really connect them to our lives. Today, we're talking about the consequences of Adam's sin for humanity. And if you do have the catechism, you follow along and realize you were only covering a couple different paragraphs,

but we recognize that

the consequences of this one sin, right, we talked about yesterday, original sin, for all of

humanity. One of the things that the church is going to note is that, yes, as St. Paul says,

by one man's disobedience, many, that is all men,

were made sinners. And sin came into the world through one man. And also through one man,

one man's act of righteousness, Jesus Christ's act of righteousness leads to acquittal and life

for all of us. And so this recognition that we're all born afflicted. When we talk about original sin,

it's not a sin that is committed, but it is a sin that's contracted. That's what paragraph 404 says.

So it says this, the last sentence of paragraph 404, it says original sin, this is why original

sin, quote unquote, only in an analogical sense. It is a sin, quote, unquote, contracted and not, quote, unquote, committed. It's a state and not an act. That's one of the reasons I've mentioned it before, but one of the co-founders of the CFRs, the Franciscan friars of the renewal. He had once said, He has a book actually called The Original Wound. It's so good. And that's what he calls Original Sin.

He says, it has a book actually called The Original Wound. It's so good.

And that's what he calls original sin. He says, it's a state, again, not an act. So that's we baptize babies. We recognize that every one of us is born into this state, this fallen state, this wounded state. We remain good. And this is what we're also going to talk about, that there are consequences. We have this attraction to sin. We have a darkening of our intellect. We have a weakening of our will.

We die. And yet, we remain good. And so there's, you know, in paragraph 406, it talks about this, the last paragraph we're going to read today. It talks about how over the course of

2000 years, there were different extremes or different

distortions of what original sin is. For example, in the 5th century, there's plagiarism. And Pelagius,

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