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Day 39: The Father Almighty

The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz)

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God's Identity Is Essential

God is not a certain type of being. God is being itself. He's the ground, the foundation, the essence if you can say it like this, of all being. Power, essence, will, intellect, wisdom, justice, they're all part of what it is to be God. And so he God can do whatever he pleases. The fact that he's the father almighty reveals that he is good. But also when we finally, this is going to be stated one of the last bullets in paragraph 274, it's a quote from the Roman catechism.

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