I am really enjoying 1 Maccabees! What a great story! I have never read through the entire Old Testament so this journey has been incredible. I called myself a New Testament snob because I have been all the way through the New Testament a couple times and through the gospels numerous times. This has been such a gift!
Maccabees are great Biblical books. Several years ago, a rabbi wrote an article in the Wall Street Journal thanking the Catholic Church for saving those precious books.
Blessings to all. 3rd yr. with BIAY. Each year, I am finding Father Mike’s message applies to what is going on in my daily life, Thank you, Ascension Press God Bless Everyone.
Father, may everything that I do this day, whether it be full of joy or pain, whether it be full of love or of grief, I ask that everything I go through today be offered to you just like Jesus offered everything to you. It is in his name we pray. Amen. 10/16/2024
All of you people watching this please pray for a friend of mine her words exactly “I don't know if non-believer is the right word, I'm not affiliated with any particular religion, I'm probably agnostic right now, I do find value in the psychospiritual, maybe to say I'm questioning is more accurate.”
Very special thanks to Elizabeth, Lyndsay and Marisa for all you have done behind the scenes to make this BIAY possible! I know there are many others too that have contributed their talents and I thank you all - as I am following in 2023, and for the first time I am understanding the ‘jigsaw’ that is the Old Testament. Prayers of thanks to you all! 🙏🥰
Day 290, what a blessing. This daily discipline has been the well spring of so much growth . I’m so grateful to all who are responsible for this gateway to The Divine
October 26, 2023 Round Two Have you ever considered listening to Saint Faustina’s Diary in a year and/or EWTN Mother Angelica’s Classics to add to your Catholic learning? Oh my goodness so much life guidance in conjunction with Father Mike’s Bible and Catechism in a Year!
I've really enjoyed 1 Maccabees and I'm kinda sad it's over. Whenever I tried reading it I'd give up because of the wars. It's very different listening to Fr Mike, who makes it so interesting. God bless you Fr Mike🙏🏻✝️🙏🏻
Thank you for sharing Fr Mike. "Hail Mary, full of Grace, the Lord is with thee. Blessed art thou amongst women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb Jesus. Holy Mary, mother of God, pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death, Amen" My beautiful sweet Jesus, my eternal love, please bless Fr Mike, his team, his family, and protect them against the evil one.
Felt very melancholy yesterday, not like me, however today church has revived my spirits, sung some great truths in the hymns, and met around the communion table. Praise God for his goodness, thank you BIAY folks for all that you do.
Thank you Father Mike for all your hard work and all of us who are a great team and the ones behind the scenes for your hard work🙏Thank you si much and May God continue to bless all of you as we all pray for each other . Praise to God for his holy intervention Amen🙏✝️🙏
Thank you Fr. Mike, Elizabeth, Lindsey and Marisa and all others who have made this B.I.A.Y possible for so many. Thank you Fr. Mike for your passion in delivering God's word to us. It's appreciated. God bless you all. Have a blessed day.
Yes, Fr Mike Schmitz, I’m so grateful to all who work hard behind the scenes- to make this Bible In The Year study possible - reaching out and educating people all over the world. May God bless everyone 🙏♥️
Thank you for all of these ladies and their hands in this great ministry. Praying for everyone at Ascension. Please pray for my friend, Denise a Protestant following and listening to BIAY...she is in the hospital for COVID on a ventilator. She sure could use our prayers.
Thanks father Mike for your prayers after reading the Word of God. You always know what to say to bring us closer to our Lord. These words spoke to my heart today: "Lord, help us be wise in what we do and not do. Help us be wise in what we say and don't say." I pray that God helps me grow in wisdom every day in order to be the best wife, mother, daughter, sister and friend as possible.
October 26, 2023 Round Two Will you please take a moment and pray with me? According to tradition, St. Gertrude the Great was told by Our Lord that each time she piously recited the following prayer, it would release 1,000 souls (or a vast number) from their suffering in purgatory: Eternal Father, I offer You the most precious blood of thy Divine Son, Jesus, in union with the Masses said throughout the world today, for all the Holy Souls in Purgatory, for sinners everywhere, for sinners in the universal Church, for those in my own home, and in my family. Amen. In her account of another vision, St. Faustina describes Purgatory as a "great crowd of suffering souls" undergoing purification. Further, she says that the souls are "praying fervently, but to no avail, for themselves; only we can come to their aid" (Diary, 20)
Thank you Father Mike for sharing the bible with all of us. It is a true blessing to read, hear and understand the words of our God. Praying for Father Mike and anyone who is in need of prayers.
Thank you Father Mike in the community and this was another good one and I always love the way you explained it afterwards it makes it clear all right good night everybody I pray for you keep me in prayer too night night God bless
Thank you Fr for Bible readings. I pray for myself and all my son's and daughters and my whole family, members living and deceased, sleeping, resting, waiting in peace of almighty God. For my father and husband and all my and our child's son's and daughters. ........... Remember all who needs my right prayers, right guidance, right help at my age and as a girl. ......... Almighty God protect, deliver, rescue, keep us away and safe from all evils, wicked's, bad's, wrong's, hellesh, deadly sinful, hatful, enemies, jealous, wroth, rotten, criminals, devil's, satens, lucifer's, terrorists, rapist's, sexual and non sexual completely hells everything's and everyone's and there powers and people in all there forms and facts..........I pray never we should be as anyone and anything hells whom we are seeking protection, deliverence etc.
Thank you Fr. Mike and everyone working behind the scene! Been following since January and BIAY has really helped me grow spiritually this year. A little bit disappointed that we did not hear any reflections on Sirach today, though. I find chapter 25 particularly hard to swallow and I could really use a guidance on how to reflect on the last few verses.
Thank you Fr. Mike for clarifying that 1Maccabees is just the history, not the lesson or sermon. I keep wondering how this explains the Catholic belief of purgatory. Now I know to just be patient and wait.
Proverbs 23 The Thirty Wise Sayings -6- 1 - When you sit down to eat with someone important, keep in mind who he is. 2 - If you have a big appetite, restrain yourself. 3 - Don't be greedy for the fine food he serves; he may be trying to trick you. -7- 4 - Be wise enough not to wear yourself out trying to get rich. Good News Bible (TEV). 📖🕯✝
thank you to ascension, father mike and jeff covin for starting the year in the bible. never would of read it without this. the bible is one book that is not an easy read. thank you all and bless everyone that has contributed to this wonderful podcast.
@@roknrone Thank you that means a lot, I know sometimes I seem to go off on one, and it troubles me greatly, but sometimes the bee in the bonnet wins out ! I am just looking at day 291, it might get a bit bonkers, as there is so much to get my teeth into. Have a great day.
Personally I think the “wife” in all of those could be easily changed to husband. Got to remember the age in which this was written a woman was a possession of the man in her family, be he husband, father or brother. For some reason men’s sins and their roll in life was a lot different from those of women.
What are we parents/grandparents to do if kids/grandchildren continue to reject God? Are we guilty for not teaching them correctly or is it their responsibility because they refuse to learn?
Sirach is amazing.... today's WISDOM speaking was mindblowing. Protestants reject this OBVIOUSLY INSPIRED - is truly disappointing.... I wish father Mike spoke at length about the Holy Spirit here instead of Maccabees the whole time.
“For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its Savior. Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her,” Ephesians 5:23, 25
Father can you spend some time on Sirach from today and 23:3 yesterday? I think these are important passages that can hurt people if not properly understood
First time being introduce to the Apocrypha/Deuterocanonicals …forgive me for incorrect terminology. I have so much to learn and believe of Catholicism. 🙏🏾❤️🙏🏾
Both terms are right. However, as Catholics, we tend to use the latter. Welcome aboard. There is plenty to learn. You are not alone. Ask for counsel of the Holy Spirit ❤️💐🇬🇧
Is there a way to go back to the 1st podcast of "The Bible in a year?" I have tried but cant find day 1. I have never read the Bible in its entirety and i would love to. I have trouble understanding it so i get discusted and stop reading. Fr. Schmitz's podcast would for sure make things easier for me to grasp.
