WOW. What a story !! They could make a movie about Esther, the King, the Jew Mordecai and Haman. It would be an EPIC blockbuster movie, with the right actors
Problem with Hollywood make an a movie like this. It always adds to it. And take away from it. Because when we know what's in the bible they always add something to it.
Esther is one of the most important women mentioned in the Bible, maybe the most brave for sure. She looked death right in it's eyes. She was as brave as any solder, and God turned her terribal life into something good to save her people.
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. 10/4/2024
I pray, Oh Lord, that my children will hear and remember what their parents and grandparents have told them and taught them about You.. Bring them back, Oh Lord.
wow, never in my life read the book of Esther. she is the queen and through her weakness, change the heart of a mean king. So awesome story! Thanks Fr. Mike.
Thank you, Fr. Mike. Bible-In-A-Year has been an incredible blessing in my life. I have listened for 3 years and each year I learn new things. Also, I thank you for always praying for us. I love your daily reminder to pray for you…which I do, along with all of His shepherds of His Church here on earth. And along with all of His people. May GOD bless, protect, & guide you, Fr. Mike. 🙏❤️🙏
Day 278 - Friday October 4th, 2024 Power in weakness. Today’s readings are Nehemiah 10, Esther 15, 6-7, and Proverbs 21:13-16. Happy Feast Of San Francisco de Asis ( Saint Francis of Assisi ). San Francisco de Asis pray for us all, especially those in most need of God's help and mercy. Deo gratias 🙏👍👌😇👼❤💙
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.”
I love where Father Mike talks about Gid working through our weaknesses. This is something that I have witnessed many times in my life, and can honestly say, see the beauty in it. Thanks Father Mike. I 'm praying for you. Please pray for me.
Wow, incredible, my weaknesses were exposed today in this Day 278, including the calling back after 20 years of being away from the Church. I am amazed, it is almost as if Father Mike was looking into my heart and saw what was written there. My faults, my brokenness, my weaknesses as he said. This bible in a year even though it is my second year, is still touching my heart and my soul. Thank you, Father Mike and all involved in bringing us this Bible in a Year podcast. You inspire, teach and guide us all on a new path towards our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
Today's readings are so so good. Queen Esther is one of a kind. Also good to know that God works in our weakness. Sometimes I think I'm weaker than the normal person, but if a queen can be weak, then it's okay that I am weak and that God is working through my weakness.
Wow, what a beautiful story of Queen Esther. As a 55 year old practising Catholic, I’m only now reading my bible, from Genesis to Revelation. Only now, knowing about Queen Esther. “My God, my God - thank you for Your grace, thank you for bringing me here since Day 1. Keep me rooted at Your cross until I breathe my last. Bless Fr Mike, his team & this Community always. In Jesus’ name, I pray. Amen.”
Oh I love this story! When she faints and God uses her weakness to soften the king's heart it is a great reminder to us..both that it is ok to sometimes be weak and also that it is good to have compassion for the weak. Thank you, Fr. Mike.
October 15, 2023 Let me ask you, 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 am not sure I want to be a Catholic having spent my growing up in a Baptist church. Having that installed into me. But my grandmother was Catholic and I my mum went to a Catholic school. I think I always wished my grandfather had not changed mum to protestant after my grandmother died. He married a Catholic if he had kept mum in her Catholic upbringing we would still have been Catholic. I think. So part of me has always been interested in this higher church.
Thank you dear Lord for Fr Mike giving us encouragement every step of the way with his spiritual reflections. We need you dear Lord to strengthen us in times of our weakness. May our faith dear Lord sustain and never fail us. Thank you dear Lord for listening and answering our prayers according to your will. Amen.
“Establish my footsteps in [the way of] Your word; Do not let any human weakness have power over me [causing me to be separated from You].” Psalms 119:133
Fr Mike thank you for reading God's Word with us, this is so awesome, and I love my Catholic Faith so so so much more, God bless you , Jeff and Ascension Press
October 15, 2023 Please 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 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 and his family with heavenly graces.
When the Kings Spirit turned to gentleness.... It is widely known that if a guy wants a girl to forgive him show 'vulnerability' - example 'I need help, can't do it alone, you are the only one who can help me with this...'. it works every time.
Thank you Fr Mike 🌟 Happy Feast of St Maria Faustina "Jesus I Trust In You "🌻 ~St Maria Faustina Trusting god's will in the midst of all the seasons in our life is courage.
Carrying Dawn M's mantle and message. Please intercede and pray for the souls in purgatory, they need our prayers. Consider listening to Saint Faustina’s Diary in a Year on the Marian Press Podcast. Each day's reading is just about 7 minutes long. What a gift! 10/5/2022
Proverbs 21 13 - If you refuse to listen to the cry of the poor, your own cry for help will not be heard. 14 - If someone is angry with you, a gift given secretly will calm him down. 15 - When justice is done, good people are happy, but evil people are brought to despair. 16 - Death is waiting for anyone who wanders away from good sense. The Good News Bible (TEV). 📖🕯✝
I was born a weak girl, and decided to go up to the Himalaya. Everyone against me wanted to an engineer when I was a kid, and yet I became an engineer despite all obstacles. The still small voice of God leading us His ways in the world. Circumstance is like resistance training. God knew me before I was formed in the womb. Everything in life was predetermined by God. He predetermined our destiny before we were born. So I m called stubborn, and I disagree, I just don't like to let the world to define me. God is the boss. He has the last word. Jesus said He LL make all things new.
Thanks Fr Mike for bringing us back to the faith. This podcast has brought a conversion , a revival of the faith in God! How fitting it is that this podcast started when we most needed it, when we were so fragile and distraught. I can honestly say that reading the Bible has transformed my life. It's no longer my Grandmother's faith but my own. Thanks Fr Mike!
'He who closes his ear to the cry of the poor will himself cry out and not be heard. When justice is done, it is a joy to the righteous, but dismay to evildoers.' -The book of Proverbs chapter 21 verses 13-16
I was moved how Mordechai was dressed in royal clothes and given a crown on his head. It reminded me how they clothed Jesus in the purple and put the crown of thorns upon His head and ridiculed Him. What a juxtaposition position of how they were treated.
God wants to work in our weakness and that’s so powerful. Queen Esther was such a powerful woman of God and it’s so amazing to hear about her. It’s amazing to see how God uses us and I want to seek greater understanding.
Towards the end of your commentary, you were talking about the king whose spirit was fierce and now having a gentle soul, thus taking Esther into his arms. I don't have that gentleness when I'm cut off in traffic. And if I spot a rosary hanging from the mirror, the spirit of gentleness changes my thoughts! Many are commenting on this from last year. Today is October 5, 2022.
Hi Father Mike! I am brand new to the Catholic Church - I attended my first Mass (EVER) on Sunday and just got home from my first RCIA class. It occurs to me that I should probably get a bible. Which version(s) and vendor(s) do you recommend?
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WOW. What a story !! They could make a movie about Esther, the King, the Jew Mordecai and Haman. It would be an EPIC blockbuster movie, with the right actors
It's a love story.
EWTN did have a short story on Esther and it was very good.
Problem with Hollywood make an a movie like this. It always adds to it. And take away from it. Because when we know what's in the bible they always add something to it.
I guess so.@@jonathangoodwin646
Day 278..let's do this 💪.. prayers for Father Mike and all the BIY family 🙏❤
Esther is one of the most important women mentioned in the Bible, maybe the most brave for sure. She looked death right in it's eyes. She was as brave as any solder, and God turned her terribal life into something good to save her people.
October 4, 2024 Friday. Here I am.
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. 10/4/2024
This is my second d year with participating in the BIY. I am so grateful. I may even do it again next year.
Thank you, Father Mike
God works in our weakness.
Praise and Glory to our Lord & Father, God.
God Bless Fr. Mike
I pray, Oh Lord, that my children will hear and remember what their parents and grandparents have told them and taught them about You.. Bring them back, Oh Lord.
Yes I pray that for all people to come back and to know you Jesus thank you for saying that in Jesus name
My prayer too!❤
Thank you. Please God Almighty. 🙏🏽
My prayer too❣️🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
Joining this BIAY Day 278 prayer circle today (29-Oct-2023). 😇
wow, never in my life read the book of Esther. she is the queen and through her weakness, change the heart of a mean king. So awesome story! Thanks Fr. Mike.
I love the story of Esther.❤🙏
04OCT2024. Day 278. Oh Lord, I have sinned due to my weakness. Lord, help me in overcoming my weakness. Amen
Thank you, Fr. Mike. Bible-In-A-Year has been an incredible blessing in my life. I have listened for 3 years and each year I learn new things. Also, I thank you for always praying for us. I love your daily reminder to pray for you…which I do, along with all of His shepherds of His Church here on earth. And along with all of His people. May GOD bless, protect, & guide you, Fr. Mike. 🙏❤️🙏
Day 278 - Friday October 4th, 2024
Power in weakness.
Today’s readings are Nehemiah 10, Esther 15, 6-7, and Proverbs 21:13-16.
Happy Feast Of San Francisco de Asis ( Saint Francis of Assisi ). San Francisco de Asis pray for us all, especially those in most need of God's help and mercy. Deo gratias 🙏👍👌😇👼❤💙
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.”
🙏🏻
@@annmarek3989 thank you
I love where Father Mike talks about Gid working through our weaknesses. This is something that I have witnessed many times in my life, and can honestly say, see the beauty in it. Thanks Father Mike. I 'm praying for you. Please pray for me.
God
Neh 10….how quickly we forget…time and time again….
Wow, incredible, my weaknesses were exposed today in this Day 278, including the calling back after 20 years of being away from the Church. I am amazed, it is almost as if Father Mike was looking into my heart and saw what was written there. My faults, my brokenness, my
weaknesses as he said. This bible in a year even though it is my second year, is still touching my heart and my soul. Thank you, Father Mike and all involved in bringing us this Bible in a Year podcast. You inspire, teach and guide us all on a new path towards our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
Welcome back home
Yes welcome back, please pray for my family & siblings that have walked from the sacraments of the Catholic faith! 😢❤
Praying for you and your family 🙏
Lord Protect Your People From The Threat Of The Devil Amen JMJ ❤
Day 278 BIY, October 04,2024. God bless us all🙏🙏🙏✝️✝️
Amen 🙏.
Continuing my journey, Team Replay 💚🙏🏼😊
Again blessings thank you Lord alllbpraise is yours.
Today's readings are so so good. Queen Esther is one of a kind. Also good to know that God works in our weakness. Sometimes I think I'm weaker than the normal person, but if a queen can be weak, then it's okay that I am weak and that God is working through my weakness.
Wow, what a beautiful story of Queen Esther. As a 55 year old practising Catholic, I’m only now reading my bible, from Genesis to Revelation. Only now, knowing about Queen Esther.
“My God, my God - thank you for Your grace, thank you for bringing me here since Day 1. Keep me rooted at Your cross until I breathe my last. Bless Fr Mike, his team & this Community always. In Jesus’ name, I pray. Amen.”
Me too
Me too...60yo
Me as well, 66 yo
Praise God! 61 years old,
Thank you and God Bless you Father Mike...Praying for you and for all who are following you on this Journey...
My prayer today is that the Holy Spirit will be on Father Mike and all who participate in the BIAY.
wow thank you Lord and thank you father Mike I will pay for you and our listeners.
Praying for you and for Jeff Cavins
Oh I love this story! When she faints and God uses her weakness to soften the king's heart it is a great reminder to us..both that it is ok to sometimes be weak and also that it is good to have compassion for the weak. Thank you, Fr. Mike.
Loved this story. Thank you Fr Mike. Praying for you and everyone here. God bless🙏❤️🙏
HaPpy DaY 278 ❤❤❤
Amen ❤❤❤
Happy Tuesday ~ April 02, 2024
October 15, 2023
Let me ask you, 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!
Praying for you Father Mike and everyone on this journey Amen 🙏
I am not sure I want to be a Catholic having spent my growing up in a Baptist church. Having that installed into me. But my grandmother was Catholic and I my mum went to a Catholic school. I think I always wished my grandfather had not changed mum to protestant after my grandmother died. He married a Catholic if he had kept mum in her Catholic upbringing we would still have been Catholic. I think. So part of me has always been interested in this higher church.
I am glad you decided to be Catholic. There seems to be a few more rules, but we have the strength of the sacraments to help us make it to heaven.
amen
Thank you, Fatehr Mike.
Thank you dear Lord for Fr Mike giving us encouragement every step of the way with his spiritual reflections.
We need you dear Lord to strengthen us in times of our weakness. May our faith dear Lord sustain and never fail us.
Thank you dear Lord for listening and answering our prayers according to your will. Amen.
✝️Amen 🙏 Amen🙏Amen🙏🌹🕊️
Wooo!!!!! Maccabean revolt!!!! The greatest story ever! Glad we have a Godly man leading us to these glorious story!
I cannot WAIT to hear you tomorrow..!!! ❤️👍🏻
“Establish my footsteps in [the way of] Your word; Do not let any human weakness have power over me [causing me to be separated from You].”
Psalms 119:133
Thank you Fr.. Mike for your sacrifice and all you do for us.
Godspeed
Fr Mike thank you for reading God's Word with us, this is so awesome, and I love my Catholic Faith so so so much more, God bless you , Jeff and Ascension Press
I think most of us can probably attest to the fact that we try to do things in our own strength, when God just wants a willing heart.
“And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness...”
2 Corinthians 12:9 a
October 15, 2023
Please 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 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 and his family with heavenly graces.
Though I wish God would have put the spirit of gentleness often in me and all others.
When the Kings Spirit turned to gentleness.... It is widely known that if a guy wants a girl to forgive him show 'vulnerability' - example 'I need help, can't do it alone, you are the only one who can help me with this...'. it works every time.
Please pray for my daughter Ren for peace/ love and prosperity in all her endeavors from this day forward. Thanks
May the Lord always be at her side. Amen
Lifting your daughter up in prayer
We are "perfect in our weakness."
Thank you and God bless and have a good day in Jesus name we pray
I pray that God continue to bless you and keep you Fr Mike and Ascension team.
🙏🙏🙏
Thank you Fr Mike 🌟
Happy Feast of St Maria Faustina
"Jesus I Trust In You "🌻
~St Maria Faustina
Trusting god's will in the midst of all the seasons in our life is courage.
Carrying Dawn M's mantle and message. Please intercede and pray for the souls in purgatory, they need our prayers. Consider listening to Saint Faustina’s Diary in a Year on the Marian Press Podcast. Each day's reading is just about 7 minutes long. What a gift! 10/5/2022
This can only happen in the holy Catholic Church because it’s the ONLY CHURCH THERE IS. God bless.
Lord in my weakness use me for your glory. Have mercy on me Lord.
Thank you so much Father Mike and God Bless you for the effort you put into these lessons for us. You had me sitting on the edge of my chair today.
Proverbs 21
13 - If you refuse to listen to the cry of the poor, your own cry for help will not be heard.
14 - If someone is angry with you, a gift given secretly will calm him down.
15 - When justice is done, good people are happy, but evil people are brought to despair.
16 - Death is waiting for anyone who wanders away from good sense.
The Good News Bible
(TEV). 📖🕯✝
GOD BLESS FATHER SCHMITZ AND ASCENSION PRESENT S.
Thank you Father Mike. God bless you✝⛪
I was born a weak girl, and decided to go up to the Himalaya. Everyone against me wanted to an engineer when I was a kid, and yet I became an engineer despite all obstacles. The still small voice of God leading us His ways in the world. Circumstance is like resistance training.
God knew me before I was formed in the womb. Everything in life was predetermined by God. He predetermined our destiny before we were born. So I m called stubborn, and I disagree, I just don't like to let the world to define me. God is the boss. He has the last word.
Jesus said He LL make all things new.
He still gives you the free will to choose.
Thanks Fr Mike for bringing us back to the faith. This podcast has brought a conversion , a revival of the faith in God! How fitting it is that this podcast started when we most needed it, when we were so fragile and distraught. I can honestly say that reading the Bible has transformed my life. It's no longer my Grandmother's faith but my own. Thanks Fr Mike!
Wow, it blows my mind how some days I need to hear exactly what’s being said… thank you God
Thanks to you all for spreading the Good news 👍
God bless my friend, whose daughter is marrying this weekend and whose father is having surgery.
Godspeed 🙏🏼🕊💐
Impressive how you can pronounce those names ! Great job Fr Mike…
🙏😊
'He who closes his ear to the cry of the poor will himself cry out and not be heard. When justice is done, it is a joy to the righteous, but dismay to evildoers.' -The book of Proverbs chapter 21 verses 13-16
Thank you
I was moved how Mordechai was dressed in royal clothes and given a crown on his head. It reminded me how they clothed Jesus in the purple and put the crown of thorns upon His head and ridiculed Him. What a juxtaposition position of how they were treated.
God wants to work in our weakness and that’s so powerful.
Queen Esther was such a powerful woman of God and it’s so amazing to hear about her. It’s amazing to see how God uses us and I want to seek greater understanding.
Towards the end of your commentary, you were talking about the king whose spirit was fierce and now having a gentle soul, thus taking Esther into his arms. I don't have that gentleness when I'm cut off in traffic. And if I spot a rosary hanging from the mirror, the spirit of gentleness changes my thoughts! Many are commenting on this from last year. Today is October 5, 2022.
Thank you God bless Rev father
Thanks so much
Thank you Fr Mike! ❤️🙏🏼🌞
God Bless Fr. Mike and all BIAY followers. 🙏
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Wow, way to go reading all those names! You are indeed talented!
Thank you father!
Thank you, God bless!
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Thank you God for Father Mike and this amazing gift of the BIAY. God bless Father Mike and everyone doing the study. 🙏🏻✝️🙏🏻❤️
Done ✅
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Hi Father Mike! I am brand new to the Catholic Church - I attended my first Mass (EVER) on Sunday and just got home from my first RCIA class. It occurs to me that I should probably get a bible. Which version(s) and vendor(s) do you recommend?
The graet adventure time line , if yiu get
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Ester 15. “Pride goeth before a fall”…..
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Thanks!
Amen❤
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June 2 2023
Day 278, 5/16/2022
For me 278. 5/17/2022 😇🙏
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I left the Church I know what you mean