This is RCT number 11, creator of heaven and earth.

We are in the Roman Catechism of Trent, RCT.

Page 27 to 31.

This is part one of the RCT, the Creed, Article 1, the last phrase.

God give you his peace.

In nomi Patri, Saffili, speedy, Tussain, amen.

Heavenly king, consoler spirit, spirit of truth, who are present everywhere and

filling all things, treasure of all good, and source of all life. Come dwell on us, cleanse us,

and save us, you are all good. Amen. And omnipati, Sipides, spiti to Santee, amen. The Creator.

The necessity of having previously imparted to the faithful and knowledge of the omnipotence of God will appear from what we are now about to explain with regard to the creation of the world.

The wondrous production of so stupendous of work is more easily believed when all doubt concerning the immense power of the Creator has been removed.

For God formed the world, not from materials of any

sort, but created it from nothing, and that not by constraint or necessity, but spontaneously,

and of his own free will. Nor was he impelled to create by any other cause and a desire to

communicate his goodness to creatures. Being essentially happy in

himself, he stands not in need of anything. As David expresses it, I have said to the Lord,

thou art my God, for thou hast no need of my goods. Psalm 15 too, as it was his own goodness

that influenced him when he did all things whatsoever he would.

So in the work of creation he followed no external form or model,

but contemplating and as it were imitating the universal model contained

in the divine intelligence, the supreme architect, with infinite wisdom and power,

attributes peculiar to the divinity, created all things in the beginning he spoke and they were made he commanded and they were created

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