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 sure 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, where we're through the Catechism of the Catholic Church, discovering our identity and God's family as we journey together toward our heavenly home. It is day 46. You guys, we're reading paragraphs 325 to 330. As always, I'm using the Ascension edition of the Catechism, which includes the foundations of faith approach, but you can follow along with any recent version of the Catechism of the Catholic Church. Also, you can download your catechism in a year reading plan by visiting ascensionpress.com slash C-I-Y. That stands for catechism in a year. If you haven't picked that up yet in 46 days, also, you can click follow or subscribe in your podcast app to receive daily updates and daily notifications. You guys, today, I think you're going to be happy. today and tomorrow, in fact, that's not the kind of radio hostee. Today and tomorrow, here we go. But today and tomorrow, we're going to be going through this paragraph five called heaven and earth. Now, I noted this before, but we're reading paragraphs 325 to 330, but in the Catechism, which refers to each number, right, in front of each paragraph. But in the Catechism, they also have a thing called paragraphs. They have paragraphs, and then they have paragraphs. But you know, that's what we have. So this is paragraph 5, heaven and earth. And so we're going to talk about all things visible and invisible. The fact that there is, there is the earth, there is this world, there's things visible, and there's also

the heavens or heaven itself. We're talking about that. Just briefly, we're just only going to

kind of highlight that a little bit. But then we're also going to mention the fact that

they're also in creation are things called angels. Angels are created beings, pure spirits

that God created when he created all things visible

and invisible. We're going to talk about, we're going to begin talking about that. In fact,

we're going to note that the fact that the existence of angels is a truth of faith. Like,

it's one of those things. You might even say that the witness of scripture is as clear

as the unanimity of tradition, meaning the scripture bears witness to the reality of angels and

our tradition bears witness to the reality of angels, which is pretty remarkable. We're also going to

talk about kind of like what are angels or who are angels. They're purely spiritual creatures.

They have intelligence. They have will. purely spiritual creatures. They have intelligence.

They have will.

They're personal.

They're immortal.

They surpass in perfection, all visible creatures as the splendor of their glory bears

witness.

That's from paragraph 330.

I just literally just read that to you.

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