Day 39: The Father Almighty

"Nothing is more apt to confirm our faith and hope than holding it fixed in our minds that nothing is impossible with God. Once our reason has grasped the idea of God's almighty power, it will easily and without any hesitation admit everything that [the Creed] will afterwards propose for us to believe - even if they be great and marvellous things, far above the ordinary laws of nature." CCC 274

In today's reading, we get more than in previous days, but it is just as densely packed. Such is to be expected when speaking about how almighty God truly is. The Catechism is right that the "Holy Scriptures repeatedly confess the universal power of God" (CCC 269). He is omnipotent with everything and everyone is subject to His will. There is nothing that He cannot do, which unfortunately leads sometimes in our fallible minds to cry out about His allowing suffering in this life. Yet, as the Catechism says,

[I]n the most mysterious way God the Father has revealed his almighty power in the voluntary humiliation and Resurrection of his Son, by which he conquered evil. Christ crucified is thus "the power of God and the wisdom of God. For the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men." CCC 272

We sometimes get angry and confused about this in times of pain and grief. As the Catechism Companion puts it: 

God's power is absolute but also loving. God does not remove suffering; he redeems it. (p. 82)

God is all-loving, even when we think He isn't showing us love. It is through the sacrifice and redemption of Christ that we can come to understand that.