Hi, my name's 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 30. We're reading paragraphs 212 to 21. Kind of a chunk of change. I think yesterday, two days ago, we had four paragraphs. Today we have a thousand. I don't know if I counted that right. 212 to 21.

As always, before we get started, I'm using the Ascension edition of the catechism, which includes the foundations of faith approach. But you can follow along in any recent version of the Catechism of the Catholic Church. So feel free to do that. Also, feel free to download your catechism in your reading plan by visiting ascensionpress.com slash CY. If you did, you would know that we're sticking with the father friend.

The next, I don't know, 30 days. I think so. I think we're sticking with the father for the next 30 days. Then we jump over to the sun, which is just a huge gift. Also, you can click follow or subscribe in your podcast app for daily notifications. And one last thing. Just a quick thank you for all those of you who have supported the production of this podcast. It is so essential.

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Day 30, paragraphs 212 to 221. We started talking about the father a couple days ago, and today we have some things

to listen for. Well, the first thing is there is a ton of scripture. In fact, if you have your

Ascension edition of the Catechism or any addition of the Categism, you will see that the

footnotes are just abundant, I think. They're replete with quotes from Scripture.

In fact, almost no sentence in what I'm going to read today doesn't involve some

quotation of Scripture, almost all of them, almost every single sentence, which is not

just remarkable.

It's notable.

It's not remarkable in the sense that it's like, wow, I can't believe the Catechism is quoting

the scripture.

Of course the Catechism is quoting the scripture. Of course the catechism is quoting the scripture.

But it's remarkable, meaning notable, to just realize that when we talk about God today,

we're going to talk about a couple different divine attributes.

One is we're going to talk about the fact that God alone is, right?

Existence, he is existence, which for some of us, we think, well, duh, of course God is,

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