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

to 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 entire Catechism of the Catholic Church, discovering our identity in God's family as we journey together toward our heavenly home. This is Day 5. And as a couple reminders 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 with this, with any recent version of the Catechism of the Catholic Church, so no problem whatsoever. But you can also follow along the reading plan

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notifications and updates. And also, I just want to take a moment to thank all of you who have supported the production of this podcast with prayers and financial gifts literally could not do it without you. So thank you so much. As I said, it is day five. We were reading from chapter one in the search, paragraphs 36 through 43. You know, yesterday we talked about how we can come to know God through the world.

We can come to know God through looking in our human heart. Today, we're going to kind of launch

forward and look a little bit more closely at that. We recognize that we can come to a knowledge of

God's existence, God's reality by the light of human reason. And kind of highlighting, yep,

while we have the light of human reason that can apprehend,, yep, while we have the light of human reason

that can apprehend, right, that can understand that God truly exists and even a bit of who God

really is, we're going to be limited, which is one of the reasons why God has to reach out and

reveal himself to us. Also, we're going to talk about the language in which we speak of God

is always going to be limited because, you know, God is, as the catechism will note from the liturgy of St. John Christosom, God is the inexpressible, he is the incomprehensible, he is the invisible, he is the ungraspable. And so, you know, how do we talk about God? We're going to look at that a little bit today. Before we launch in, let's say a prayer. Father in heaven, we give you praise. You are, you are the inexpressible, the incomprehensible,

the invisible, the ungraspable. You are a mystery. You're the mystery of mysteries. And yet you

reveal your heart to us. You reveal your identity to us in the world you created,

in the human heart that beats inside every one of our chests, in our minds, and in every,

everything you created, Lord, in some way, points to you, our creator. Help us to get rid of all those things that get in the way.

Help us to overcome those obstacles that can make it difficult to see you or difficult to acknowledge

your goodness and open our hearts, open our minds to not only love and understand you, but also

to let you love us.

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