Day 40: God Is the Creator
The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz)
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🗓️ 9 February 2023
⏱️ 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.
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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.
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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| 0:00.0 | Hi, my name is Father Mike Schmitz and you're listening to the Catechism in a Year podcast, |
| 0:09.3 | 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 Ascension. |
| 0:17.4 | In 365 days, we'll read through the Catechism of the Catholic Church, discovering our identity |
| 0:22.0 | in God's family as we journey together toward our Heavenly home. It is day 40 you guys. |
| 0:25.9 | Congratulations on reading paragraphs 279 to 284. I'm using, as always, the Ascension edition |
| 0:31.9 | of the Catechism, 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. |
| 0:39.4 | Say, say. You can also download your Catechism in the Year reading plan by visiting AscensionPress.com, |
| 0:45.2 | slash CYY. You can also, I don't know if you know about this, you can click follow or subscribe |
| 0:49.6 | in your podcast app for daily updates and daily notifications and also just truly a quick thank you |
| 0:55.2 | to everyone who has ever supported the production of this podcast with your prayers, |
| 0:58.8 | your financial gifts, your support. We could not do without you. We're so grateful. I mean, |
| 1:02.7 | truly, truly so grateful. One thing to keep kind of clear as we're going through day 40. I want |
| 1:07.5 | to pause on that for one second. You guys, it is day 40. Congratulations. I know that I maybe |
| 1:12.8 | have said this before and maybe this was not your experience, but I think those first couple days, |
| 1:17.6 | being a little bit slow might have been a big challenge. Now we are launching in. We are |
| 1:22.9 | truly launching into deeper and deeper, just beauty. Today again, we only have a few paragraphs, |
| 1:29.2 | but it's powerful. Yesterday we talked about how God is Almighty and how His might is being omniscient. |
| 1:35.6 | No, that's all knowing. How is being omnipotent? Is being Almighty is universal. He's all powerful. |
| 1:41.7 | It's loving because he is father and it's mysterious because we have this mystery of how God |
| 1:49.2 | can do all things. And yet at the same time, there still is suffering. There still is evil that |
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