Day 268: The Precepts of the Church (2026)
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What is the opening message Father Mike shares about keeping faith alive?
We can't lose our faith the way we lose our car keys. We either give it away or we let it decay because we don't use it. Hi, my name's Father Mike Schmitz, and in my new book, Unshakeable, Building a Life of Virtue in a World of Chaos, I tell faith-filled stories that inspire you to live a life of virtue that flows from the unshakeable power of God. Although we're surrounded by a culture that mocks virtue, we can feed ourselves stories that really do uphold what is good and promote a virtuous life. When we live this way, we experience freedom and joy like never before. It's my prayer that the stories in my book, Unshakable, will inspire you to fight the battle for a virtuous life and win through trust in an unshakable God.
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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 365 days, we'll read through the Catechism of the Catholic Church, discovering our identity in God's family as we journey together toward a heavenly home. This is day 268. We're reading paragraphs 2037 through 2043. 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.
To download your own Catechism in your reading plan, visit ascensionpress.com slash CIY. And lastly, you can click follow or subscribe in your podcast app for daily updates and daily notifications, because today it's a 268. We're reading paragraphs, as I said, 2037 to 2043. We're continuing what we started talking about yesterday, right? The church is mother and teacher. And so I don't know if you are catching on to this, but in this section, the church is maybe taking pains to simply remind us that the church is good. That the church founded by God, God who's good, founded a church that is good. Yes, of course, there are weeds among the wheat. Yes, we absolutely know that. There are sinners among the saints.
And there are times when people have abused their power. Times when people have abused teaching and people and all these things. And yet, the church has continued to teach the truth consistently in season and out of season. Sometimes the church needed to be louder when it was too soft, and sometimes the church needed to be softer when it was too loud, and yet at the same time, it always taught the truth. The church has always taught the truth. Why? Because the church is faithful. divinely inspired, divinely founded by our divine founder, Jesus Christ himself, the second person in the Trinity. The soul of the church is the Holy Spirit. And so we know that yes, above everything, even though there are sinners in the church, the church is holy.
The church is holy. And so we can always trust, we can trust the church. And so paragraphs 2037 to the end here, 2043 says, It's all about reminding us and inviting us to that reality. I can say it like that.
Why does Father Mike describe the Church as a caring mother and teacher?
Again, inviting us to just consider this reality, the goodness of the church. Now, last little quick thing. We're going to talk about the precepts of the church today. And so there are five precepts of the church. We have Ten Commandments. We have the Eight Beatitudes. But there are five precepts of the church, and we're going to talk about all five of those today and how important they are in the life of the Catholic Christian. So as we launch into day 268, let's take a moment and call upon our Heavenly Father, call upon the Son of God, Jesus Christ, and the Holy Spirit who teaches us to pray. Father in heaven, we know that we do not know how to pray as we ought. And we also know that our hearts are not the kind of hearts that they should be.
We have cynical hearts. We have skeptical hearts. We have hearts that have been hurt. Hearts that have been hurt by life, by this world, by strangers.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is the opening message Father Mike shares about keeping faith alive?
0:01–3:08
2
Why does Father Mike describe the Church as a caring mother and teacher?
3:08–6:30
3
How does the Catechism define our right to be instructed in the Church’s precepts?
6:30–10:33
4
What are the five precepts of the Church and why are they considered obligatory?
10:33–12:44
5
Why is attending Mass on Sundays and holy days the first essential precept?
12:44–15:05
6
How does the annual confession precept prepare us for the Eucharist?
15:05–17:17
7
What does the Church teach about fasting, abstinence, and providing for its material needs?
17:17–20:14
8
How can we practically live out all five precepts today?
20:14–22:18