What Catholics Should Know About Superstitions
The Fr. Mike Schmitz Catholic Podcast
Ascension
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🗓️ 21 November 2024
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
Did you know that superstitions are a sin? In this video, Fr. Mike dives into the topic of Friday the 13th and other common superstitions, shedding light on how they can reveal something about our hearts. Often rooted in fear, superstitions are a sin against the First Commandment, showing our desire to control or predict the future.
Fr. Mike also discusses how Catholics can sometimes fall into superstition through their approach to saints, prayers, and sacramentals—such as treating the scapular like a good luck charm. He emphasizes that our trust should be placed in God and his goodness above all else.
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| 0:00.0 | Don't be suspicious, don't be suspicious. |
| 0:02.1 | From Parks and Rec, that song is stuck in my head permanently. |
| 0:04.8 | Don't be suspicious, don't be suspicious. |
| 0:06.6 | But I'm not even saying suspicious. |
| 0:07.6 | I'm saying superstitious. |
| 0:09.4 | That's the word of the day. |
| 0:10.8 | I'm not superstitious. |
| 0:12.4 | I am a little stitious. |
| 0:14.0 | Michael Scott. |
| 0:15.5 | How my name's Father Mike Schmitz and this is The Century Presents. So I don't know if you know this, but I looked looking at my calendar relatively recently, and I discovered that there are at least three times in 2024 and 2025. |
| 0:25.7 | There might be more. I'm not sure. When we have a Friday the 13th. We had it in September. |
| 0:29.8 | It's coming up in December. And in 2025, I think it's in June. I didn't look at any further than |
| 0:35.0 | that. I got bored and I got distracted. And people |
| 0:37.9 | are a little afraid of that because they're superstitious and I'm not superstitious. I'm a |
| 0:42.4 | little stitious. Sorry, I have to say this much as again. All of us can be influenced to |
| 0:46.3 | one degree or another by superstition. I mean whether that's something as simple as I always |
| 0:50.6 | put my left sock on before my right sock or Or I always, um, that's the only one |
| 0:55.1 | I can think of. Or you hear about, you know, sports people who like they have to wear their |
| 0:58.4 | same jersey or they have to wear the same going back to socks, the same smelly socks. I don't |
| 1:03.0 | wash them all season or whatever the thing is. Actually, the church forbids superstition. It's |
| 1:08.9 | actually a sin before we go any further. If you're aware of this |
| 1:12.1 | and you don't want to be superstitious and you realize it doesn't matter if I put my right sock on |
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