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

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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 28. We're reading paragraphs 198 to 204. I mentioned this a little bit yesterday, but we're jumping into chapter 1. I believe in God the Father. Article 1. I believe in God, the Father Almighty, creator of heaven and earth.

That is what we're talking about today.

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what I just want to talk about. Okay, so what are we talking about today? Okay, as I mentioned

yesterday, yesterday, the day before we talked about the creed and how the creed is very important.

The Apostles' Creed, the Nicino Consonnes and Apollitan Creed, very, very important. All the

creeds, super important. But the first article of the creed is going to be, I believe in God, the Father. So we're going to highlight this. We're going to highlight the fact that our faith begins with God because God is the first and the last. He's the beginning at the end of everything. One of the things I just going to, I want to draw your attention to is for the next couple of days. It's kind of like we're talking about the mystery of God. So there are some big words

like ineffable, God who is unchangeable, incomprehensible, almighty. Of course, that's what we know

about God. Sometimes we're kind of flippant with those words. I know I think that there are

occasions when I think that I approach God as if,

like, oh, yeah, yeah, I know who God is. I know what God is. And God is absolutely so much more.

I think one of the things that the catechism begins reminding us of is that, yes, God is one,

but also that God is a person, like a personal God, that we're

not saying, I believe in what. We're saying I believe in who. And this is what he's done,

of course, but I believe in a who. In fact, my best friend once said this, he said, every time I

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