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 pure goodness for us, revealed in scripture and passed it 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 and God's family as we journeyed together toward our heavenly home. This is Day 100. Congratulations, everybody. We're reading paragraphs 702 to 710 as always. I'm using the Ascension edition of the Catechism, which includes the foundations of faith approach. You can follow along with any recent version of the catechism of the Catholic Church. I don't know if you follow along. Hopefully you do, because that would add a lot of layers to this. You can also download your own catechism in a year reading plan by visiting ascensionpress.com slash CIY. And you can click follow or subscribe in your podcast to have to receive daily updates and daily notifications. man, I remember that on day 100 of the Bible in a year, I had said something along the lines of. You know what? If you haven't yet committed, if you have not yet clicked follow or subscriber, whatever that is, by day 100, I question your commitment. There was a guy who was mad at me about that, but I'm just joking around. I know you're committed for crying out

loud. You're here on Day 100. It's amazing. And also, thank you so much not only for being part of this catechism in your journey. I know it is a task. It's sometimes difficult to press play. But thank you so much for being with us. And thank you so much for being part of this community. Thank you so much for all those who have supported the production of this podcast by your your prayers by by

by present play by your financial gifts, we couldn't do it without you. It's so good. You know, today, where yesterday we talked about the Holy Spirit, duh. I mean, the last couple days we've been talking about the Holy Spirit. Yesterday was those symbols of the Holy Spirit of, you know, water, anointing, fire, all those images. Today, we're going to talk

about God's spirit and word in the time of the promises. So we're going back to creation.

We're going back to the Old Testament. We're going back to how God revealed himself in those

memberless things called theophanies, where the manifestations of God that reveals himself

to us. And here's how

he reveals the Holy Spirit. So this is one of the things, says, we have all of these hints of the

reality, the power, the working of the Holy Spirit from the very beginning all the way to now.

And yet it says in the very first paragraph here, 702, it says, from the beginning until the fullness of time,

the joint mission of the Father's Word and Spirit remains hidden, but it is at work.

And that's kind of the premise that we're going to be talking about for today, is that the joint mission of the Word and the Spirit,

joint mission of the second person of the Trinity and the third person of the Trinity, that mission remains hidden, but it is at work because God's Spirit prepares for the time

of the Messiah. Now, one of the things that might help get your mind wrapped around for today

is if you can remember the ways in which the Lord God spoke to the people of Israel in creation, the way that the Lord God

spoke to the people of Israel through scriptures, the way that the Lord God spoke to the people

of Israel through the prophets. So this is going to be really important. And all those works

that led the people of God from Abraham all the way to Christ and then beyond, of course.

But we're going to end today in paragraph 709 and 710

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