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 journeyed together toward our heavenly home. It is day 39. We're reading paragraphs 268 to 278. You guys, we have 10 or 11. I don't know how many paragraphs that is. It's quite a few. 268 to 278. Also, my gosh, you guys made it to day 39. This is pretty remarkable. I know that those first

couple days were sloggy, if that's a good word, for it kind of just, okay, here's the introduction to the catacism. I know I brought this up before. I'm bringing it up again because, I don't know, today is amazing. I'm pretty excited about today. And also the days to follow, we have so much, my goodness, so much goodness to have revealed to us about God.

Quick things before we dive in. I'm using the Ascension edition of the Catechism. I don't know if you

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and daily updates and whatnot. Okay, so today, as I said, day 39, paragraphs 268 to 278.

This section is about how God is Almighty. So what we believe about God is that He is Almighty. And what does that mean? What are we saying when we believe that God is Almighty? And so we're going to dive deeply into this. I think it's fascinating. Tomorrow we're going to then talk about, okay, so if God, the Father is Almighty, he also is the creator of heaven and earth, right? So we're talking about how the fact that he's a creator tomorrow. But today, we're establishing the fact that God is almighty. So what does that mean? That could be a fancy word for the word omnipotence, right? It could be a fancy word for the fact that God is all powerful. The fact that God is almighty means that he can do anything. He can do whatever he wills, and nothing is impossible with God,

who disposes his works according to his will. That's one of the quotes we're going to get

from Jeremiah in the catechism today, paragraph 269. One of the things we need to highlight

here today is not only that the almighty power of God is one of his divine attributes, but also the fact that

this reveals something to us about God's character. Because one of the things that's

going to be stated here is that is this, in God, power, essence, will intellect, wisdom,

and justice are all identical.

Nothing, therefore, can be in God's power, which could not be in his just will or his wise intellect.

I know I just dove right into a quote from St. Thomas Aquinas.

It's in paragraph 271.

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