Day 58: Man’s Spiritual Battle (2025)

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

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🗓️ 27 February 2025

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Fr. Mike explores the hard battle which each and every one of us must face, the battle with sin. Together, we examine the mystery of us being both free and under the power of the Devil. Fr. Mike emphasizes that if we are unaware of our wounded nature, it can lead to grave errors in our own lives. If we have an attitude that, “since I’m made good, then everything I’m drawn to must be good,” we can fall into temptation and evil. We conclude on a hopeful note; however, that even after we sinned, God did not abandon us to the “domain of death,” and with God’s grace, evil will never have the last word. Today’s readings are Catechism Paragraphs 407-412.

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's Father Mike Schmitz, and you're listening to the Catechism in a Year podcast,
0:09.3	where we encounter God's plan of sheer goodness for us, revealed in scripture, and passed
0:13.4	down through the tradition of the Catholic faith. The Catechism in a Year is brought to you by
0:17.2	Ascension. In 365 days, we'll read through the Catechism of the Catholic Church
0:21.4	discovering our identity in God's family as we journeyed together toward our heavenly home.
0:25.6	This is Day 58, and we are reading paragraphs 407 to 412. Of course, I'm using the Ascension
0:31.3	edition of the Catechism, which includes the foundations of the faith approach.
0:34.8	You can follow along with any recent version of the catechism of the Catholic
0:37.9	Church. If you want to download your own catechism in a year reading plan, visit ascensionpress.com
0:42.1	slash cIY. And lastly, you can click follow or subscribe in your podcast app for daily notifications
0:48.0	and daily updates. As I said, it's day 58. We're reading paragraphs 4.07 to 412. You guys were
0:52.9	still in the midst of looking at and
0:55.2	examining original sins. So one of the things we ended with in paragraph 405. Now, we ended with
1:00.0	406 yesterday talking about the differences, plagianism, right? You don't really need God's grace
1:04.8	or the heresy of the Protestant Reformation, which would talk about that human nature is completely corrupt, right? So either you don't need God's grace because you're pretty much
1:15.6	intact, or you absolutely do need God's grace in the sense because you are depraved. Now, the Catholic
1:20.9	worldview is in between that, that we absolutely do need God's grace, but not because we're
1:26.6	depraved, but because we're deprived, right? But what that sets us up for is a spiritual battle. In fact, the end of paragraph
1:32.3	405 says this. Of course, we talk about baptism. And baptism by imparting the life of Christ's grace
1:38.3	eases original sin. So, I mean, we still experience the consequences, but it eases original
1:43.5	sin and turns a man back
1:45.2	toward God. But then it says, the consequences for nature weakened and inclined to evil persist in man
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