Day 271: Love of God (2026)
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What is the purpose of the Decalogue’s first three commandments?
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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 our heavenly home. This is day 271. Amazing. We're reading paragraphs 2064 to 2082. 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.
You can also download your own Catechism in a Year reading plan by visiting ascensionpress.com slash C-I-Y. And you can click follow or subscribe in your podcast app for daily updates and daily notifications today, day 271, paragraphs 2064, not 2064. Yeah, 2064 to 2082. We're talking about the Decalogue. Remember, the Decalogue literally means the 10 words. And so first we're looking at the Decalogue in the church's tradition. You might have noticed that when yesterday, when I read the 10 commandments, I read three different versions from the book of Exodus, from the book of Deuteronomy, and then the classical catechetical numbering and catechetical explanation of of those 10 commandments. Where did that come from?
Great question, Camper. The short answer is St. Augustine. We'll give the longer answer in paragraphs 2065 and 2066. But we highlight the fact that when we're looking at the 10 commandments, we're looking at a whole, right? We're looking at not just a bunch of arbitrary dictates, right? Not just a bunch of kind of random suggestions or even random commands. but they have a coherent whole, that the first three commandments have to do with love of God, and the last seven commandments have to do with love of neighbor. And we recognize that from the early days of the church, there's a unity, and that's the second section here, the unity in the Decalogue, that to love God, I can't love God without loving my neighbor, and to love my neighbor, because he's made a guy's image and likeness, is to love God, right?
So there's a connection, there's a unity there. Now, we also are looking at two or three more obligations here. One is, or not obligations, but headers, I guess you'd say.
How does the Church’s tradition explain the unity of love of God and love of neighbor?
One is the Decalogue and the natural law, recognizing that the commandments that are found in the Decalogue could be things that people might be able to discover simply by looking at the human heart and looking at if I have a sense of what a human person is And if there is a God, then that God deserves my worship. And if the human being is made in God's image and likeness, although we wouldn't know that naturally, but if that's true, I could discover that I should treat them in a certain way. So there's a unity between the Decalogue, right? The 10 commandments and the natural law. also there's an obligation meaning that this is not an optional in fact i think my mom used to have a somewhat ironic sarcastic bumper sticker on the back of her car that says something like they're called the ten commandments not the ten suggestions or something like that i don't know i may have been something along those lines we recognize that there's an obligation that we have an obligation to follow god's commands and that we can't do it without jesus so that's we're looking at today
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is the purpose of the Decalogue’s first three commandments?
0:01–2:59
2
How does the Church’s tradition explain the unity of love of God and love of neighbor?
2:59–6:12
3
Why are the Ten Commandments considered a natural law expression?
6:12–9:24
4
What does the Catechism say about the grave obligations of the Commandments?
9:24–12:13
5
How does the fifth commandment’s “abusive language” rule illustrate grave matter?
12:13–14:09
6
What role does Jesus’ grace play in fulfilling God’s commands?
14:09–16:55
7
Why does Father Mike emphasize that we cannot obey the Commandments alone?
16:55–19:00
8
What should listeners expect for tomorrow’s deep dive into the first commandment?
19:00–20:51