Day 267: The Church as Mother and Teacher (2026)
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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 three hundred and sixty-five days, we'll read through the Catechism of the Catholic Church, discovering our identity and God's family as we journey together toward our heavenly home. This is day two hundred and sixty-seven. We're reading paragraphs two thousand thirty to two thousand thirty-six as all. Always I'm using the Ascension edition of the Catechism, which includes a foundation of faith approach, but you could 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. And lastly, you can. You can. You don't have to. Don't have to do it. You can click click follow or subscribe in your podcast app for daily updates, daily notifications. It is day two hundred and sixty seven. As I said yesterday, we finished Article two. on grace and merit and freedom and it's awesome. Today, I mentioned this yesterday. Today we're talking about the church, our mother and teacher. And for the next couple days we're going to be talking about this until we launch into the Ten Commandments and really diving deeply into the moral life. And one of the reasons why the church is setting this out for us is because if the church is our mother, then she loves us.
And if the church is our teacher, then we need to listen to her. And that's and that's Mm-hmm. That can be the challenge for so many of us. We talked about this a little bit before, but sometimes when people read the Bible, it can be far enough ago, like long enough in the past that people are not threatened by the Bible. Sometimes, sometimes people are, which is good because the word of God is meant to convict our hearts and meant to console our hearts. It's meant to be it's meant to be very, very present. But sometimes we can hold it at an arm's length and say, Well, that was then e and maybe God's word is convicting me, but you know, I'm not going to apply. Apply it to my life right now. And then all of a sudden, here is Jesus, 2,000 years ago, who gives us a church.
And even before that, you know, when God raised up the people of Israel, that was the community. That wasn't it wasn't like people read the Bible in isolation. They would read the Bible with and through the community. And just like as Christians for 2,000 years, we read the Bible with and through the church, the lens of the interpretation of the Magisterian. Right, the teaching office of the church and the I guess that motherly role of the church. And one of the things that does is it makes us have to pay attention and say, Oh, I am being challenged. If the church is teaching something that I don't like, if the church is teaching something that I find challenging, I have to allow myself to be challenged.
I have to allow myself to be taught. And so one of the things we pray for as we launch into today is docility. And docility is that openness to being taught. If the church is our mother, and she is. If the church is our teacher, and she is, and
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