Father Mike Schmitz
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95,261 appearances
360 recordings
4 series
first heard Dec 2024
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Father Mike Schmitz’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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The church increases, grows, and develops through the holiness of her faithful until we all attain to the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to mature manhood, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ.
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By living with the mind of Christ, Christians hasten the coming of the reign of God, a kingdom of justice, love, and peace.
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They do not, for all that, abandon their earthly tasks, faithful to their master, they fulfill them with uprightness, patience, and love.
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In brief.
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The moral life is a spiritual worship.
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Christian activity finds its nourishment in the liturgy and the celebration of the sacraments.
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The precepts of the Church concern the moral and Christian life united with the liturgy and nourished by it.
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The magisterium of the pastors of the Church in moral matters is ordinarily exercised in catechesis and preaching on the basis of the Decalogue which states the principles of moral life valid for every man.
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The Roman pontiff and the bishops, as authentic teachers, preach to the people of God the faith which is to be believed and applied in moral life.
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It is also incumbent on them to pronounce on moral questions that fall within the natural law and reason.
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The infallibility of the magisterium of the pastors extends to all the elements of doctrine, including moral doctrine, without which the saving truths of the faith cannot be preserved, expounded, or observed.
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Right, there we have it.
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Three quick paragraphs and five little nuggets there, paragraphs twenty forty-four to twenty fifty-one to sum this up.
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Let's pause on this for a second.
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You know, I've been I don't know if I've been apologetic in the sense of you guys, we have to be open, we have to be docile, we have to allow the church to teach us and lead us and not be so resistant again against like maybe our our pet sins, if that's the way to say it, or our pet issues that that um we want to hold on to our will as opposed to here's the church.
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church that leads us and teaches us and guides us, there's been some element about that of just like, you know, here's the encouragement to not do that.
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And here in these last three paragraphs, 2044, 2045, and 2046, where the church in many ways explains why.
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No, not only for our own sanctify salvation, not only sanctification, for our own salvation to be open, for our own salvation to be docile to the Lord and to his church, but also for the salvation of others.
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I mean, this is
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The reality, of course, is that, you know, as we said the other day, is that our faith, yes, is personal.
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