Hi, my name's 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 through 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 journeyed together toward our heavenly home. This is day nine, you guys. We are reading from paragraphs 65 to 73. I am using the Ascension edition of the Catechism, which includes the Foundations of Faith approach, but you can follow along this podcast with any recent version of the Catechism of the Catholic Church. If you want to follow along in the reading plan, you can download the Catechism in your reading plan by visiting ascensionpress.com slash CIY. You can also follow or subscribe, click those things in your podcast app for daily notifications. As I said, this is day nine. We're reading paragraphs 65 to 73. Actually, we're at the end, we're going to have

an in-brief today. Remember last time we had an in-brief? Actually, it was the first time we had an

in-brief. It was those six bullet points, six paragraphs essentially. And now we get to actually

combine that with a couple preceding paragraphs.

Two days ago, we talked about how God has revealed himself in stages, right?

God reveals his plan of love for us.

So in the beginning, he makes himself known with Adam and Eve.

Of course, we break that relationship, but he still reveals himself.

Then he has a covenant with Noah.

Then yesterday, how God chooses Abraham

and then forms the people of Israel through Moses and David and the prophets. Now, on this last

little section in this article, how Jesus Christ is the mediator and fullness of all revelation.

Right. So we got the Old Testament the last two days. And now this one day, we're highlighting the fact that,

okay, Jesus, one of the phrases that's used in this section of the catechism is, God has said

everything in his word. That word, word is capitalized. The W is capitalized because we know that

Jesus is the word made flesh. So we're realizing that after Jesus,

there is no further revelation. So these are kind of some of the points, the things to listen to or listen

for today, that God has said everything in His word, Jesus Christ. So that's the he is the fullness

of revelation. Also, the church is making the statement that there is no further public revelation.

There's no further things that God would reveal. He's revealed himself fully in Christ, in Jesus

Christ. But there are such a thing as private revelations. So we're going to talk a little bit about

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