Day 305: The Defender - The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz)
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As we hear the re-telling of the story of Judas Maccabbeus and his brothers fighting for the honor of the Lord's Temple in 2 Maccabees, Fr. Mike points out how this version gives us an insight into their recognition of God's presence, mercy, and justice in their circumstances. We learn that no matter what we are going through, we can trust that God is our great defender who is present and active in all circumstances of our lives. Today's readings are 2 Maccabees 8, Wisdom 5-6, and Proverbs 24:30-34.
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You’ve said on so many “God, what a gift.”. It’s taken me 305 days for that to take hold. I’m not the brightest bulb at 70, but yes indeed, this is a gift. Thx Fr.
Oh if only more people were on fire for the Lord! It'd be awesome to see everyone gush with the fervor of Father Mike!
Thank you for the prayers today Father Mike. You rock 🎉
Father Mike never apologise for « gushing » as you call it …. I say it’s a demonstration of the joy you find in the word of God ! It’s so contagious and so indicative of the love you hold for God and his words!……please never stop showing your appreciation and respect for the word of God 🙏🏽🙏🏽
Please God bless Father Mike keep him strong in faith and continue his evangelization 🙏❤️
Thank you Fr. Mike I do desire God wholeheartedly each day, he is my rock and salvation. Praying for you
Gush all you want. God is worth it.
God bless you, Father Mike!! 🙏🙏🙏
I desire Wisdom, not Knowledge. I know a lot of people with fancy degrees, most (not all) are oblivious to living a holy life. Its all about money & power & status & brands & a big house. I am one of them. I have it all. Yet, I felt so empty; something was terribly missing. And though I am a practicing Catholic & a Communion minister, I still felt God was so far away. Hence, Jan 1st, I started this BIAY and I’m still here on time, every day - what a miracle. Its only by HIS grace that I didn’t drop out. Tried so many times to read my bible; this is it. I’m graduating soon.
God bless Fr Mike and the BIAY team. God bless everyone here, in this Community. Lets graduate together!
God bless you! So happy you’ve drawn nearer to God thru this. Keep it up. The journey with Christ is lifelong
Father Mike enthusiasm is what makes us come back each day.❤ Thank You for all you do to keep God in our lives.
I've kept a journal from the start of BIAY and besides my own thoughts I've written much of what Fr. Mike says. Today I wrote most of what Fr. Mike said and especially, we can't always say what God is doing. "But we can say. "You are here and You are active and You are present and You are doing something." Finally. "We all desire Him." 💗 Thank you once again Father Mike and Jeff Cavins for BIAY.
Fr., never apologize for your enthusiasm about the readings of the Bible! I love how your enthusiasm makes me want to have that same spirit! We are learning so much from you & I want to personally thank you for sharing all that you know so I can better understand Scripture!
But most of all, Never Apologize!!
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Absolutely! Well said !
Amen 🙏.
Whenever it comes to God: gush, gush, gush! His Word sets our hearts on fire. When you gush father Mike, I am so happy and I get excited and realize how awesome and amazing He is. Thanks for leading us to Him and helping us grow in faith and wisdom as Judas Maccabees did with his troup.
Fr Mike is always full of energy and enthusiasm. It's contagious. 😂
Thankbyou Fr Mike. Praying for you and everyone here. God bless🙏❤️🙏
Thank you Fr Mike.
Immaculate Heart of Mary, Blessed Mother of the Eucharistic Christ, Queen of Heaven and Earth, please bless Fr Mike, his family, his friends, and give them all pure hearts. God Bless you Fr Mike.
God give me the wisdom to understand Your will, help me Lord.Amen 🙏
Father Mike, love your enthusiasm! Don’t apologize.
Fr. Mike your excitement in the word of the Lord, excites me,
Your explanation of the scriptures has enlightened me so much, I am beginning to understand the story of the Bible. before when I would read scripture, I would skip lots of it because it didn't make any sense to me, but now I am So, So glad that I have followed you this past year my understanding is much better. I get excited to sit with you each day to learn more. You give me peace in my heart, I feel my heart just being overwhelmed. I also feel regret for not putting God first in my life. Since I started reading the Bible every day, I feel God's presence what a feeling!!! Amen
Dear Fr. Mike, Your spiritual passion helps us come closer to God and his Word every day. What a gift !!
Thank you and God Bless you Father Mike. I will always pray for you
Fr. Mike, thank you for your reassurance - that although we are imperfect, distracted, etc. God is reaching out to our hearts if not our heads, to guide us to Him. Our sinful nature does not dissuade Him one iota. He is truly the "Hound of Heaven" seeking us out and reeling us in, one step at a time much like the fisherman reeling in his catch. God love you, protect and guide you, and reward you for all you do for His children / your children in Christ. Thank you for sharing your knowledge with those of us on the journey through the Bible in a Year. Praying for you; thank you for praying for us.
Gush away anytime, Father Mike! So good!❤️
Thank you Lord for being here and being present.
Praying for you Father Mike and everyone on this journey Amen 🙏🙏
Thank you Father Mike for your insights. No need to apologize. Your "gushing" actually makes me smile😅. Praying for you and everyone in the BIAY community.. God bless🙏
You always give great commentaries Fr Mike.
Fr. Mike, you cannot gush too much about the greatness, holiness, and goodness of God's Holy Word. Thank you for teaching us to love His Holy Word more and more this year. God bless you, and you are in my prayers. Thank you for your prayers, because oh, I know that I need them.
All BIAY community desires to know him. We have the desire for Wisdom, you Father Mike are a blessing to all of us, to me. Thank you for bring God's Word to my home, to my ears, to my heart. Amen. God bless you! ♥🙏
Thank you, Father. God bless you
Please pray for me, and my Protestant friends who will hopefully read this with me next year
Yes. 👌
@JMJ Aquinas. I am here friend, praying for you and listening to this the second time.
I love what Paul has to say to the Ephesians, in fact I have prayed it a lot this year.
EPHESIANS 1 v 17 - 21 I keep asking that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, may give you the spirit of wisdom and revelation, so that you may know him better. I pray also that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which he has called you, the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints, and in his incomparably great power for us who believe. That power is like the working of his mighty strength, which he exerted in Christ when he raised him from the dead and seated him at his right hand, in the heavenly realms. NIV
Solomon was given great wealth because he asked for wisdom not riches. Love the enthusiasm Fr Mike, thank you.
On “asking God for wisdom “.
This brings joy to my heart. At the age of seven in a catholic school, Sister read to us the story of Solomon! The story about the two mothers and to whom the baby belonged. I was so touched by the story that I couldn’t wait to get home and pray.
I got home and ran in my bedroom, shut the door, got on my knees by my pink taffeta bed and closed my eyes tight and prayed
“Oh God please make me smarter like you did king Solomon. I don’t want to be book smart, nope, I want to be the kind of smart that helps people. God please let me help people. Amen!”
That might have been the first of many intense prayers in my life.
Yes God did deliver. As I grew I learned the proper name for smart, wisdom. I’ve asked all of my life and that one prayer has grown and changed as God has taught me and provided spiritual direction along the way.
God is sweet! Wisdom is better than candy.
God bless you Father Mike and may God also bless all of us!
Have I mentioned how much I appreciate you Father Mike and everyone at BIAY. Thank you 😊
It makes me sad to think there are only 60 days left to listen to BIAY with Fr. Mike. No more comforting and inspirational words from Fr. Mike? I know it has probably been a long, hard commitment for Fr. Mike to do this podcast every single day, but the Holy Spirit has spoken through him straight to me, and I imagine straight to many of us in this community. The only way I can think of keeping this going is to listen to the recordings all over again next year! That will be a blessing!. I am not sure if I will be able to find the podcasts all the way back to Day 1, but hopefully, they stay in the system. I pray for Fr Mike who I think of as our modern day Moses, and I pray for all of you in this community to stay strong as we traverse the desert of our modern world. Thank you Fr. Mike for all you do! Also, for those who help bring this podcast together behind the scenes -- Thank You!
@Catherine Link. I hope you followed your own suggestion of listening to BIAY a second time. There is still so much to learn by listening to it again. If you tried, you found all the podcasts are just as easily found on your favorite podcast to listen over and over. Trust that God is present and active in your life. God Bless. 11/1/2022
Also Fr Mike is doing the Catechism of the Catholic Church starting Jan 2023. Can't wait!
I will start my 3rd time thru in 2024…..not planning on stopping until the Lord calls me home…
@@patmendell381me too 😊
Don’t be sad. You can click “you tube” anytime and search for BIAY Day 1 any to start over. Then do the same: BIAY DAY 2. .. if you hit the subscribe button another one shows up but many time it’s not the consecutive day so just type the next day in the search instead. I always type the next day into “Notes” so I don’t forget. (Or just write the next day down so you know which one to search for.) Fr Mike has so many other talks on TH-cam. So much to listen to and get inspired. He truly is a gift bringing us closer to God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Spirit. God Bless
The Book of Wisdom is so beautiful, I find myself underlining almost every verse! I am sorry for Protestants who do not have this book in their Bibles. They are missing so much.
I'd like to say, It is gushable!!! Love it 💞
Yes the book of wisdom is beautiful. That's what makes this community unique n powerful. "We desire HIM"
I CANNOT WAIT to hear you tomorrow..! (Actually, later today..!) ❤️👍🏻 I am praying for you, please pray for me..! I DO NEED IT..!!
May God bless F. Mike
My heart took such a leap Father when you said “We desire Him”. So good as you would say 😊. Our whole life is centered on that aspect....We desire Jesus. Thank you Father and God bless you.
Thank You O Lord God for always protecting me and my family even though we are living a sinful life. Praise The LORD o my soul, praise The LORD O my soul. 🙏
Thank you Father Mike Schmitz and Ascension Presents. God bless you.
Father, your enthusiasm is contagious. Please don't apologize for gushing. We love it.God bless and love ❤️ you. Pray for my family.
Your gushing, Fr. Mike brings God and the Bible to life for me and makes my heart smile!😊
It’s easy to desire instruction but then to actually seek it and to obey the laws is a truly hard task for us.
The book of Maccabees so action packed it’s unbelievable that I haven’t heard about this before. So much truth in programs as usual. There’s so much in Scripture about how to live life.
Day 305 Keep on gushing Fr Mike. Your joy is one of the reasons I got captivated and also the way you read with so much feelings. God bless you always 🙏🏻
Thank you Jesus 🙏🏻❤️🙏🏻
Don’t apologize for “gushing” Fr Mike. It’s clear you have zeal for the Lord. 😊Would that more shepherds did.
Amen
Yes this was a very good reading tonight thank you Father Mike thank you for being here for us thank you for doing this podcast in Jesus name we pray I pray for you I pray for the community and God bless and good night sleep well
It’s all right, Fr. Mike, gushing is good especially when you’re talking about God and his love for us ,and his presence in our daily lives. Forever grateful for your daily podcast to which I listen , usually first thing in the morning.
God bless you and your family and friends Amen 🙏❤️
Prayers for all and you Father Mike. Yes wanting to know my lords heart and wisdom.
🙏✝️💕🕊Thank you, Father Mike!👍📖💒💐
Gush away, Father Mike! Your joy is contagious! Idea for BIY merchandise: "I think the Word of God is cool." ☺
God is GREAT! Gush as much as you want Father Mike! 🙌
God I know you are here, present and active in my life. Help me pray for my brothers and sisters who need your help. Help me pray for the souls in Purgatory so they soon can be in your love forever. Today being All Saints Day, give thanks to your favorite saint for their intercessions for you. 11/1/2022
Continuing my journey, Team Replay 💚🙏🏼😊
Fr. Mike you have done such great and beautiful job with putting together this Bible in a Year for us.!!! I know you are a busy priest and your explanations are so very helpful to me and each of us. I hope you have a happy, healthy and Blessed Christmas. I look forward to hearing about your future plans and perhaps I may repeat the Bible in a Year next year. I’m 72 yrs old, attended Catholic elementary school, public high school, and a Catholic Nursing School. Reading the Bible was never portrayed as a should do thing! You have just made this year so very important to me. God Bless you in your future endeavors. You ‘re doing great in my book!!!😅
Father Mike is starting Catechism on a year in January 2023. It looks like you are pushing through BIAY like me, to end 2022 at reading 365. I plan on joining his catechism and redoing BIAY for 2023 to keep Fr Mike's influence strong in my life, since he has helped me grow my faith. Hoping to see you in catechism class!
I❤ your enthusiasm “en” inside “Theo “ God. You have God inside of you! ❤ 🕊️ ❤
Wow! Reveal your whole words to me and our nation.
October 31, 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!
Thank you Fr Mike
Yes indeed the words from the Book of Wisdom is very precious...wonderfull Merci!
Hits home so very much today. Thank you.
Thank you Fr Mike
May God have mercy 🙏🏾❤️
“he will cover you with his pinions, and under his wings you will find refuge; his faithfulness is a shield and buckler.”
Psalms 91:4
Amen Amen Amen
God I need you 💯🙏💯💯💯🙏🌹🙏💯🙏☘️💪🩸🇺🇸🌹
Thank you Jesus Christ
🙏 thanks so much
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Hello Ascension Father Mike Schmidt I have a prayer request I'm going in for complete knee replacement surgery in the morning March 2023 requesting prayers you are always in my prayers God bless much love glory be to the father and to the son and to the holy Spirit as it was in the beginning is now and ever shall be world without end
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Thank you, ❤
Love God a you Father Mike
Mother Mary pray for me….ABBA Father HELP!!
“If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives generously to all without reproach, and it will be given him.”
James 1:5
Desiring God ever so much.
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I CAN'T KEEP UP WITH ALL MY BAD HABITS! (That's a good thing though, right?)
Let it go.
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Amen bless
Thank you, Fr. Mike! Any word on the Catechism in a Year in 2022?
January 2023
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DaY 305-01-MaY-2024
HaPpY WednesDaY
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Thanks for the prayers. Praying for you also 10/29/23
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Sin is low key the worst.
Proverbs. 24
More Wise Sayings
30 - I walked through the vineyards of a lazy, stupid person.
31 - They were full of thorn bushes and overgrown with weeds.
The stone wall around them had fallen down.
32 - I looked at this, thought about it, and learned a lesson from it:
33 - Go ahead and take your nap ; go ahead and sleep. Fold your hands and rest awhile,
34 - but while you are asleep, poverty will attack you like an armed robber.
The Good News Bible
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FATHER MIKE WHERE CAN I LISTEN FROM THE BEGINNING OF THIS BIBLE IN A YEAR. THANK YOU SO MUCH. GOD BLESS YOU AND KEEP YOU SAFE
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October 31, 2024
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)
keep on gushing father Mike.😅
Dearest saint in the making Fr. Mike; I was wondering if there is any way a person could purchase the Catechism in installments because I can't afford to purchase it in 1 lump sum?
I have a question. It may make sound crazy, but he it goes. After reading the 7 brothers- whT if someone has my 2 year old grandson, and we're threatening to cook him alive, unless I denied God. What would God want me to do? Denied him and save an innocent baby- or save myself and watch the baby scream in pain until it was over?
Sorry for so many typos, but the question is tearing me up.
What if they just ask you to deny God or they would kill you. If you denied God they would kill you and maybe keep your child and raise it as a pagan or kill him. If you denied God, they would probably still kill both of you laughing as they do. Humans can be so cruel. Just pray that you are never in that circumstance. God will provide the answer at the time if it should occur. God Bless & Keep you and your family safe. ❤🙏🙏🙏
6 step plan…I like it… shorter than a 12 step plan
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Day 305, 6/1/2022
12 August 2023
Oct 29, 2023
You “gushed” in ChristGodHolySpirit ❗️➕Those who motivated you to say you “gushed to much” ⁉️ was it satan using their free will or JesusGodHolySon. I’m sure you would not let Satan use your free will⁉️
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