Father Mike, you've been involved with the Bible in your podcast. You've done the

Catechism in your podcast. And we're going to be able to jump into this first pillar of the

catechism here on the profession of faith, which is something a lot of Catholics have familiarity

with, right? They hear the profession of faith, the creed that we recited every Mass. They recite it

every Sunday. But some people may wonder, why do I have to keep saying this thing over and over?

I still believe from last week. My beliefs haven't really changed. Why do we have to recite the

creed over and over again Sunday after Sunday? That's such a great question. Why repeat ourselves

all those times? I think the main reason is because we tend to forget. So if you go back to the

Bible, one of the things you'll notice if you're reading through the story of salvation is that

the story is repeated again and again. Like say the story of here is the people of Israel who are

enslaved in Egypt. And so they tell the story over and over again of we were slaves at one point.

Then God came to our rescue. He set us free. he let us through the wilderness, he took care of us.

And this is, they repeat themselves over and over again.

It's not like, and not as if they've never heard the story, but it's just that it's so easy to forget the story.

And so similarly for ourselves, of course I know that God is three persons, Father's from Holy Spirit.

Of course, I know that he made this world good.

Of course, I know all these things.

But, you know, in a broken world, in a world that's full of sadness, a world full of loss

and challenges and all their voices, I can tend to forget those things that I knew are true.

And so we keep reciting this creed because a lot of times, you know, have said like this,

so easy, it's so easy to forget in the darkness what I knew was true in the light.

And so every Sunday we come back to Mass, we come back to the creed and we recite this saying,

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