Day 40: God Is the Creator (2025)

The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz)

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🗓️ 9 February 2025

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

Fr. Mike explores God’s role as “Creator” and the vital importance of understanding God as the Creator of all things: heaven and earth, seen and unseen. Together, we examine the questions of our origins, such as “Where do we come from?” and “Where are we going?” Fr. Mike emphasizes that man is created for a purpose because of the great and eternal love our Father in heaven has for every one of us. Today’s readings are Catechism paragraphs 279-284.

This episode has been found to be in conformity with the Catechism by the Institute on the Catechism, under the Subcommittee on the Catechism, USCCB.

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Please note: The Catechism of the Catholic Church contains adult themes that may not be suitable for children - parental discretion is advised.

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0:00.0	Hi, my name is Father Mike Schmitz, and you're listening to the Catechism in a Year podcast,
0:09.4	where we encounter God's plan of sheer goodness for us, revealed in scripture, and passed down
0:13.4	through the tradition of the Catholic faith. The Catechism in a Year is brought to you by
0:16.6	Ascension. In 365 days, we'll read through the Catechism of the Catholic Church, discovering
0:21.4	our identity in God's family as we journey together toward our heavenly home. It is day 40.
0:25.5	You guys, congratulations. We're reading paragraphs 279 to 284. I'm using, as always, the Ascension
0:31.5	edition of the Catholicism, which includes the foundations of faith approach, but you can follow along
0:35.2	with any recent version of the Catechism of the Catholic Church, the CCC, as we'd like to say, say, say. You can also download
0:41.5	your catechism in your reading plan by visiting ascensionpress.com slash CIY. You can also,
0:47.6	I don't know if you know about this, you can click follow or subscribe in your podcast app for daily
0:51.1	updates and daily notifications. And also just truly a quick thank you to everyone
0:55.8	who has ever supported the production of this podcast with your prayers, your financial gifts,
0:59.8	your support. We could not do without you. We were so grateful. I mean, truly, truly so grateful.
1:04.2	One thing to keep kind of clear as we're going through a day 40, I want to pause on that for
1:08.2	one second. You guys, it is day 40. Congratulations. I know
1:11.8	that I maybe I've said this before and maybe this was not your experience, but I think those
1:16.2	first couple days being a little bit slow might have been a big challenge. Now we are launching
1:22.1	in. We are like truly launching into deeper and deeper like just beauty. Like today again,
1:27.0	we only have a few paragraphs,
1:28.9	but it's powerful. Yesterday, we talked about how God is almighty and how his might, right,
1:33.9	is being omniscient. Not that's, that's all knowing. How he's being omnipotent, is being almighty,
1:39.6	is universal, he's all powerful, it's loving because he is father and it's mysterious because we have
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