Day 1: An Unexpected Party?

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. For this reason, at every time and in every place, God draws close to man. He calls man to seek him, to know him, to love him with all his strength. He calls together all men, scattered and divided by sin, into the unity of his family, the Church. To accomplish this, when the fullness of time had come, God sent his Son as Redeemer and Savior. In his Son and through him, he invites men to become, in the Holy Spirit, his adopted children and thus heirs of his blessed life. (Catechism 1)

After giving some quotes from Scripture, the Prologue of the Catechism starts off with this really nice opening part: God is love and calls each of us to him, "to seek him, to know him, to love him with all his strength". So for all mankind, it's the beginning of sort of an "unexpected party" with Love itself calling us to him. No dwarves to raid one's pantry, but a "Redeemer and Savior" bringing us an invitation to become "his adopted children and thus heirs of his blessed life." I particularly liked the line, "God draws close to man," something to keep in mind during hard times. Good opening line, Pope St. John Paul II.

So begins the Prologue and this journey back into the Catechism. Today includes paragraphs 1-10, which is kind of like a "syllabus", as Fr. Mike says. I read these parts on my own first and was surprised that Fr. Mike reads it out on today's video. This was actually good, to reinforce what I had read. I should have expected this though since this is a podcast. To be honest, there's not much to work with here that wasn't kind of obvious to me, but Fr. Mike does a good job explaining the meaning of what is given in these paragraphs.

Ok, not a bad start and we'll see how it goes on Day Two.