Day 255: Human Solidarity (2026)
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What is the purpose of today’s Catechism reading on human solidarity?
Hi, my name is Father Mike Schmitz, and you're listening to the Catechism in a Year podcast, where we encounter God's plan of sheer goodness for us, revealed in Scripture and passed down through the tradition of the Catholic faith. The Catechism in a Year is brought to you by Ascension. 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. This is day 255. We're reading paragraphs 1939 to 1948. As always, I'm using the Ascension edition of the Catechism, which includes a foundations of faith approach, but you can follow along with any recent version of the Catechism of the Catholic Church. You can also download your own Catechism in a year reading plan by visiting ascensionpress.com slash CIY.
You can click follow or subscribe in your podcast app for daily updates, daily notifications. One quick note, just a thank you. To all those who have supported the production of this podcast with prayers, financial gifts, we couldn't do this without you. We definitely could not make it to day 255. And also you made it to day 255. We are in the next section. We're on the last day of chapter two of pillar three, section one, you know what I'm saying? So today we're concluding with community. We started in this pillar with human dignity. Then community. Tomorrow we're launching into salvation, which I think, well, this has been fascinating, right? I think I, hopefully you've been fascinated by this, but it's really incredible that we're going to be up, be start talking about, okay, so what is the moral law, the natural moral law, especially the old law, the new law or the law of the gospel?
And what, how does grace work in us and justification? What is that? What's merit? What's the role of merit? All those things we're going to start talking about tomorrow. Today, we're talking about human solidarity. Yesterday, you probably remember, because it was only yesterday, we talked about equality and differences between people. That we all have this equality when it comes to our dignity as being made in God's image and likeness. And the fact that Christ has died for every person, whether they know it or not, whether they've accepted that, the grace that he's offering them or not. And God has a destination for every one of us. And that destination is that he wants us to go to heaven. We can say yes to that.
We can say no to that. Because of that, we have this new, not new thing, but today we're introducing the concept of human solidarity. And human solidarity is this principle that might be, you might say, use the word friendship. You might use the word social charity. But solidarity is a direct demand of human and Christian brotherhood. Basically, remember, I think I've quoted Mother Teresa a thousand times. Actually, it's funny, you know, the quote is, That we have no peace is because we've forgotten that we belong to one another. I was thinking about where did I get that? Why is that one quote from Mother Teresa stuck in my head all of the time? And I realized that my mom, my mom who just had, you know, plaques all over the place, like over every door, you know, from Hobby Lobby or wherever they go, Michael's or maybe some other Catholic store.
There's all these quotes, right? You know, faith, family. fellowship or whatever. Prayers go up, blessings come down. Some of these plaques, you know what I'm talking about. My mom, one of them, I just was visiting my dad and I was just like, oh my gosh, that's where it is. There's Mother Teresa's quote. If we have no peace, it's because we've forgotten we belong to each other. Mother Teresa. So my mom put that up and now it's in my heart. It's just like so many things, so many things we get from our family, from our parents, so many things I've gotten from my mom and dad. And that's what we talked about yesterday, right? That we're not born the same. We're born equal, but we need each other. And so human solidarity is that sense that you know something that I don't, and I might have something that you don't.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What is the purpose of today’s Catechism reading on human solidarity?
0:05–4:00
2
How does Father Mike define human solidarity and its connection to friendship and social charity?
4:00–8:40
3
What does the Catechism say about the law of solidarity and the distribution of goods?
8:40–11:57
4
How are private property rights balanced with the universal destination of goods?
11:57–14:58
5
Why is solidarity more than giving money – what does the virtue of solidarity really entail?
14:58–16:47