Fr. Mike Schmitz

And what we heard in Genesis chapter one is in the beginning, God created, and that word created is the Hebrew word bara or bara.

I'm not sure, but it's B-A-R-A.

And it basically is found nowhere else.

When it comes to, it means simply creation out of nothing.

That he simply just created.

And there's something that the catechism says about this.

It's actually, it's the prologue of the catechism.

Because think about this.

All the other creation stories.

saying, how do we get to this planet?

How do we get to exist rather than not exist?

Well, it must've been through destruction.

It was through violence.

It was through the sex.

And yet at this creation story that God revealed to the Jewish people is no, it's because of God's sheer goodness.

So the catechism says it like this.

It says, God infinitely perfect and blessed in himself in a plan of sheer goodness, freely created man to make him share in his own blessed life.

And that's just one sentence.

It's like virtually the first sentence in the entire catechism.

The God infinitely perfect and blessed in himself.