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. 12/2/2024
We never run out of things to be grateful for as we express our love! God bless you Father Mike and all of us. We need you now more than ever as we begin this Advent season! 🙏❤️
⭐Dear Heavenly Father, I humbly ask for the spiritual gifts, including gift of faith🙏,gift of hope🌟, and gift of love❤️, that I may draw closer to You, worship You more deeply, and serve others according to Your will. If it pleases You, grant me these gifts and empower me to use them with love and humility for Your glory.🌹 I trust in Your perfect timing and surrender to Your divine purpose in my life. Amen.🙏🕯️ Praying for everyone journeying BIY presently and in future 🙏 Day 337 Date 02 December 2024
Monday December 2,2024 of the BIY. Day 337 of the BIY. Thank you Lord for giving us Father Mike for interpreting for us the words of God.🙏🙏🙏❤️❤️❤️✝️✝️✝️
Good morning Father, what day, thank God for all your gifts, please help me to use them in the right way. Praying for you Father and all religious and like you they are in some way touching the life of someone on a daily basis. Lord please me to be of some spiritual help to the people I come in come in contact with.
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.”
WOW! Oh, Father Mike, thank you for praying for all of us so powerfully at the end! Thank you! And I also pray these same words for you exponentially. Thank you, and God Bless you, God Bless you, God Bless you! May we all receive these gifts, and in such a way that we will also be sanctified by using all of these gifts ONLY in the Holy Will of God, and may we all grow and help one another grow in God's Holy Divine Will so that the Kingdom of God will be lived on earth as it is in Heaven, this is the prayer of Jesus and the prayer that Jesus taught us, so it is also a promise of God.
Praying all to receive the gifts of the Holy Spirit - what a better world this would be. Pray with me to soften the harden hearts and souls and most forgotten soul in Purgatory. 12/3/2022
For the love of Jesus and Mary and the relief of the Holy souls..eternal rest grant unto them O Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon them, may they rest in peace Amen 🙏..
Father Mike, I love your explanations and I know that you always make sure to explain things that today’s generation would typically raise an eyebrow to. However, when I heard 1 Corinthians 14:33-36 I remember thinking “oh boy, if someone who doesn’t know church history hears this or someone who is attempting to come to the faith but struggles hears this they may…” but then I remembered that you always explain touchy topics like this right off the bat. I was surprised that you didn’t. I’m not sure if you guys look at suggestions and make edits, but I think explaining this further would be something good for those who struggle with church teachings. I try telling everyone to listen to your podcasts because you explain all those things (the things that people may either leave the church for or those who don’t join because they can’t get on board with some of these scripture passages because their 21st century interpretation/perception hinders them). I know it may seem like there isn’t any real explanation needed because it’s so matter of fact “women should keep silence in the churches, for they are not permitted to speak…” but it may be something to think about on behalf of those who need to hear the reasons why it was like that. My interpretation of it was, correct me if I’m wrong, is that this part is meant to reference the concept of priesthood. “The women should keep silence in the churches.” I believe they are referring to preaching in church, which makes sense. And as for it being “shameful” I connected it to what we read a few pages before that regarding the head covering. Thus, it’s not shameful for her to speak simply because she is a girl, but it’s shameful because if she represents mankind and men represent the Father, then that would mean that her speaking would represent man (humankind) claiming to be superior to God. Does that make sense? That’s at least my interpretation of it. I’m no theologian, but I am an English teacher, which means I only have my close reading Thank you for taking time to read this 🙏 Salina
"The best gift of all is love. Love is willing the good of others. It's using your spiritual gifts to bless others." I beg you Jesus to bless us all with the gift of love. Give us your heart of love so we can lead a peaceful and happy life on earth. Give us your heart of love so we can merit our way to heaven.
Father Mike, your explanation on the spiritual gifts answered all my questions. I belong to Charismatic Prayer Group in our Parish and these spiritual gifts were discussed so many times but I did not understand them well until I listened to your podcast. The spiritual gifts St Paul mentioned are not for our own except the gift of tongues unless one has the gift of interpretation of tongues. The gifts are given to us by God for the edification of His Church and His kingdom and for God's glory and for the benefit of God's people. Thank you, Father, for making it clear for me. I will share it to my group. Also thank you for praying over me the gifts of the Holy Spirit. I accept them for the edification of the Church and for the glory of God and for the benefit of His people. God bless and protect you always.
It's my favorite day! I was brought back to the church through the charismatic renewal in 1974. My life irreversiblely changed. The experience called the baptism in the Holy Spirit with the evidence of speaking in tongues was a central part of me going from an agnostic to a believer. The idea that we can release the Holy Spirit in us to experience supernatural gifts is for everyone. The blessed mother spoke in tongues on the day of Pentacost. All the Apostles did. St Paul did as well, claiming he spoke more than those in Corinthia. These gifts open up your mind to see the spiritual world around you. As Fr Mike said, it is a gift, not a sign of some greater holiness. But it does allow you to see more clearly. If you have a ditch to dig you can do it with a shovel or a backhoe. The spiritual gifts are the backhoe.
Just like you Father Mike. I love how you relate things by your interpretation. You describe as if everything running thru my imagination of the history inside the Bible. And I thank you for that.🙏🙏
Women should not speak in church? I’m just about to go to mass and read to the congregation for the Solemnity of Christ the King. I think that the church has rightfully decided throughout the centuries that women have many ways of being included in the service of the people, and their presence is to be appreciated. I would have been interested in hearing Fr Mike’s thoughts on this. Praying for us all on this BIAY journey! 🙏🥰
Yes. This is a very difficult passage for us, especially in this day and age. Paul says he is speaking in the name of God, so it's not just a teaching for the first century. It really needs to be explained.
Thank you Father Mike for sharing the bible with all of us. It is a true blessing to hear and understand the words of our Lord, Jesus Christ. Praying for Father Mike and anyone who is in need of prayers.
Thank you for this. I've been repressing my tongues and such in fear because I don't understand what im saying and another priest said it's demonic if you don't know what you're saying. Im just gonna put it in God's capable hands and pray in the spirit again (privately) in hopes He corrects me if I'm wrong. God bless you!!
“So I thought it necessary to encourage the brothers to go on ahead to you and arrange in advance for your promised gift, so that in this way it might be ready as a bountiful gift and not as an exaction.” 2 Corinthians 9:5
BEAUTIFUL! Thank you, thank you, thank you, Fr. Mike... I feel so blessed by "The Bible in a Year" & am incredibly grateful for it AND you! I am a cradle-Catholic who has struggled for many years with a faltering Faith, & this is the first time in my life I am getting through The Bible. Your teaching commentary at the end of each set of readings has made all the difference, as my brain so often cannot follow the foreign concepts & poetic nature of Biblical wording. I also appreciate all the modes of accessibility of BIAY. I listen on my phone, my tablet, & my laptop depending on my need at the time, & though I am not hearing impaired, having BIAY available with text apparently enhances the capacity to absorb the content in the presence of certain learning disabilities! I didn't even realize I needed the text until I experienced an increased ability to attend to the content today! YAY! You are truly doing God's work & I have no doubt He is well-pleased! Thank you again, so very much... I am thrilled & hugely grateful to have such stellar resources to support my efforts to return to Faith, & grow ever stronger in my relationship with God. This work done by you & the BIAY team absolutely makes a difference... it changes lives & it helps save Souls. May God bless you all. 🙏✝️🔥😇 [`12.7.2021]
December 3: "Love never ends; as for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away. For our knowledge is imperfect and our prophecy is imperfect; but when the perfect comes, the imperfect will pass away. When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child; when I became a man, I gave up childish ways. For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall understand fully, even as I have been fully understood. So faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love." 1 Corinthians 13: 8-13 Love is the greatest of all three bedrock virtues of the Christian faith. It will abide, in a sense, even after our faith has become sight and our hope in eternity has been fully realized. May I love the way that I am loved. And may my love be felt long after I am gone. Amen.
Amen. What a beautiful prayer Father Mike. Be blessed forever and all the children of God. I keep praying for you. I'm so grateful to Our Lord Jesus to hear by your voice this reading of the Law of Love which my husband and I chose to be read on the day of our rrarriage since nearly 43 years ago on a 29th december. May we be guided by the Holy Spirit.
Day 337 - Tuesday December 3rd, 2024 The importance of love. Today’s readings are Acts 16, 1 Corinthians 13-14, and Proverbs 28:13-15. IN nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti. Amen. PATER NOSTER, qui es in caelis, sanctificetur nomen tuum. Adveniat regnum tuum. Fiat voluntas tua, sicut in caelo et in terra. Panem nostrum quotidianum da nobis hodie, et dimitte nobis debita nostra sicut et nos dimittimus debitoribus nostris. Et ne nos inducas in tentationem, sed libera nos a malo. Amen. AVE MARIA, gratia plena, Dominus tecum. Benedicta tu in mulieribus, et benedictus fructus ventris tui, Iesus. Sancta Maria, Mater Dei, ora pro nobis peccatoribus, nunc, et in hora mortis nostrae. Amen. GLORIA Patri, et Filio, et Spiritui Sancto. Sicut erat in principio, et nunc, et semper, et in saecula saeculorum. Amen.
December 5, 2023 When the Catechism is complete (or maybe even now), consider 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!
December 5, 2023 Do you have just a moment in time to pray for Souls in Purgatory 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 God bless Rev father Holy Bible speach verry well all ways I am catholic our country some peoples went to astrology side they have lot of problem our cattholic side all ways pray to God our churches our home
thankyou sooo much Fr Mike. This podcast reading and studying the Bible has done so much for my Faith journey. I have shared with many including my family. May God continue to bless you in doing God's work.
Thank you so Much Father Mike. Listening to this Bible podcast all year have helped my life in so many ways. My native language is Spanish and i have many Friends in Latinamerica. I wish this Bible podcast will have the spanish captions option in the future so i can share with my Spanish speaking Friends. Good bless!
I went to a "holy roller" church and what a bunch of confusion but as individuals the people for the most part were cordial to each other and me but as a member of the Catholic Church I didn't belong there but God bless them and bring them to the truth.
Very interesting observations. Love surely is the greatest of gifts. I'm still not sure speaking in tongues mean, but I guess it just means that whenever you speak, anyone who has a different language can understand you. I notice you didn't comment about not having women speak in the church. I assume it was the habit in those days that women were not equal to men in many ways. Makes sense to me and I believe in believe women should not be priests. Maybe deacons, but that's for the church to decide.
To add to my understanding in Fr. Mike's reflection on 1 corth 13 and why charisma of prophecy and tongues arent equal to Love here's Jesus words from Mthw 7: Many will say to me on that day ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name and in your name drive out demons and in your name perform many miracles?’ Then I will tell them plainly, ‘I never knew you. Away from me, you evildoers!
Proverbs 28 13 - You will never succeed in life if you try to hide your sins. Confess them and give them up; then God will show mercy to you. 14 - Always obey the Lord and you will be happy. If you are stubborn, you will be ruined. 15 - Poor people are helpless against a wicked ruler; he is as dangerous as a growling lion or a prowling bear. The Good News Bible (TEV) Today's English Version. 📖🕯✝
I have so many questions on this. What really is speaking in tongues. Why don’t we do in at mass? It sounds more like non Catholic Church activity. How do you know if someone is giving a prophecy that is from God? Are there any new prophets today? Are there any healers? I just have so many questions.
Father, you again forgot commenting on the topic around status of women mentioned in the letter of Saint Paul... :) which is a quite significant and conspicuous.
Day 337..let's do this 💪..prayers for Father Mike and all the BIY family who are traveling through God's word together 🙏..
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. 12/2/2024
December 2, 2024 Monday. Here I am.
We never run out of things to be grateful for as we express our love! God bless you Father Mike and all of us. We need you now more than ever as we begin this Advent season! 🙏❤️
⭐Dear Heavenly Father, I humbly ask for the spiritual gifts, including gift of faith🙏,gift of hope🌟, and gift of love❤️, that I may draw closer to You, worship You more deeply, and serve others according to Your will. If it pleases You, grant me these gifts and empower me to use them with love and humility for Your glory.🌹 I trust in Your perfect timing and surrender to Your divine purpose in my life.
Amen.🙏🕯️
Praying for everyone journeying BIY presently and in future 🙏
Day 337
Date 02 December 2024
Monday December 2,2024 of the BIY. Day 337 of the BIY. Thank you Lord for giving us Father Mike for interpreting for us the words of God.🙏🙏🙏❤️❤️❤️✝️✝️✝️
Good morning Father, what day, thank God for all your gifts, please help me to use them in the right way. Praying for you Father and all religious and like you they are in some way touching the life of someone on a daily basis. Lord please me to be of some spiritual help to the people I come in come in contact with.
02DEC2024. Day 337. Oh Lord, let the Holy Spirit guide us to love our neighbor. Amen
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.”
Continuing my journey, Team Replay 💚🙏🏼😊
Thank you Father Mike🙏
You are a gift from God 🎁
WOW! Oh, Father Mike, thank you for praying for all of us so powerfully at the end! Thank you! And I also pray these same words for you exponentially. Thank you, and God Bless you, God Bless you, God Bless you! May we all receive these gifts, and in such a way that we will also be sanctified by using all of these gifts ONLY in the Holy Will of God, and may we all grow and help one another grow in God's Holy Divine Will so that the Kingdom of God will be lived on earth as it is in Heaven, this is the prayer of Jesus and the prayer that Jesus taught us, so it is also a promise of God.
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God bless you always Fr Mike🙏❤️
Praying all to receive the gifts of the Holy Spirit - what a better world this would be. Pray with me to soften the harden hearts and souls and most forgotten soul in Purgatory. 12/3/2022
For the love of Jesus and Mary and the relief of the Holy souls..eternal rest grant unto them O Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon them, may they rest in peace Amen 🙏..
Blessings Praying always for you Father Mike you’d make a great Superman you’re a super priest
Father Mike, I love your explanations and I know that you always make sure to explain things that today’s generation would typically raise an eyebrow to. However, when I heard 1 Corinthians 14:33-36 I remember thinking “oh boy, if someone who doesn’t know church history hears this or someone who is attempting to come to the faith but struggles hears this they may…” but then I remembered that you always explain touchy topics like this right off the bat. I was surprised that you didn’t. I’m not sure if you guys look at suggestions and make edits, but I think explaining this further would be something good for those who struggle with church teachings. I try telling everyone to listen to your podcasts because you explain all those things (the things that people may either leave the church for or those who don’t join because they can’t get on board with some of these scripture passages because their 21st century interpretation/perception hinders them). I know it may seem like there isn’t any real explanation needed because it’s so matter of fact “women should keep silence in the churches, for they are not permitted to speak…” but it may be something to think about on behalf of those who need to hear the reasons why it was like that.
My interpretation of it was, correct me if I’m wrong, is that this part is meant to reference the concept of priesthood. “The women should keep silence in the churches.” I believe they are referring to preaching in church, which makes sense. And as for it being “shameful” I connected it to what we read a few pages before that regarding the head covering. Thus, it’s not shameful for her to speak simply because she is a girl, but it’s shameful because if she represents mankind and men represent the Father, then that would mean that her speaking would represent man (humankind) claiming to be superior to God. Does that make sense? That’s at least my interpretation of it. I’m no theologian, but I am an English teacher, which means I only have my close reading
Thank you for taking time to read this 🙏
Salina
Thank you so much for asking God to give me the spiritual gifts that I need. I continue to pray for you, Father Mike, and all on this podcast.
"The best gift of all is love. Love is willing the good of others. It's using your spiritual gifts to bless others." I beg you Jesus to bless us all with the gift of love. Give us your heart of love so we can lead a peaceful and happy life on earth. Give us your heart of love so we can merit our way to heaven.
Father Mike, your explanation on the spiritual gifts answered all my questions. I belong to Charismatic Prayer Group in our Parish and these spiritual gifts were discussed so many times but I did not understand them well until I listened to your podcast. The spiritual gifts St Paul mentioned are not for our own except the gift of tongues unless one has the gift of interpretation of tongues. The gifts are given to us by God for the edification of His Church and His kingdom and for God's glory and for the benefit of God's people. Thank you, Father, for making it clear for me. I will share it to my group. Also thank you for praying over me the gifts of the Holy Spirit. I accept them for the edification of the Church and for the glory of God and for the benefit of His people. God bless and protect you always.
I am also praying for you, Father Mike.
It's my favorite day! I was brought back to the church through the charismatic renewal in 1974. My life irreversiblely changed. The experience called the baptism in the Holy Spirit with the evidence of speaking in tongues was a central part of me going from an agnostic to a believer. The idea that we can release the Holy Spirit in us to experience supernatural gifts is for everyone. The blessed mother spoke in tongues on the day of Pentacost. All the Apostles did. St Paul did as well, claiming he spoke more than those in Corinthia. These gifts open up your mind to see the spiritual world around you. As Fr Mike said, it is a gift, not a sign of some greater holiness. But it does allow you to see more clearly. If you have a ditch to dig you can do it with a shovel or a backhoe. The spiritual gifts are the backhoe.
Great meditation on spiritual gifts for the good of the Church. Thank you, dear Father Mike. You're in my prayers every day.
Three words that can change the world if repeated often, “I love you”. 1 Cor. 13:8-10, answers a lot of my questions.
To love is to will the good for the other.
Just like you Father Mike. I love how you relate things by your interpretation. You describe as if everything running thru my imagination of the history inside the Bible. And I thank you for that.🙏🙏
Women should not speak in church? I’m just about to go to mass and read to the congregation for the Solemnity of Christ the King.
I think that the church has rightfully decided throughout the centuries that women have many ways of being included in the service of the people, and their presence is to be appreciated.
I would have been interested in hearing Fr Mike’s thoughts on this.
Praying for us all on this BIAY journey! 🙏🥰
Yes. This is a very difficult passage for us, especially in this day and age. Paul says he is speaking in the name of God, so it's not just a teaching for the first century. It really needs to be explained.
Paul meant what he said. Accept the truth of Scripture. Women should remain silent in Church.
@@loydmcintire5954honestly I would have really liked to see what father Mike would have said considering the passage was as clear as it could be
@@Supcha5 Fr. Mike is not going to touch this. If he did he would jump through hoops to say Paul didn’t really mean what he said.
Thank you Father Mike for sharing the bible with all of us. It is a true blessing to hear and understand the words of our Lord, Jesus Christ. Praying for Father Mike and anyone who is in need of prayers.
Praying for you Father Mike and everyone on this journey Amen 🙏🙏
Thank you for this. I've been repressing my tongues and such in fear because I don't understand what im saying and another priest said it's demonic if you don't know what you're saying. Im just gonna put it in God's capable hands and pray in the spirit again (privately) in hopes He corrects me if I'm wrong. God bless you!!
Thank you and God Bless you Father Mike....I'm praying for you and for all who follow you on this Journey...
“So I thought it necessary to encourage the brothers to go on ahead to you and arrange in advance for your promised gift, so that in this way it might be ready as a bountiful gift and not as an exaction.”
2 Corinthians 9:5
BEAUTIFUL! Thank you, thank you, thank you, Fr. Mike... I feel so blessed by "The Bible in a Year" & am incredibly grateful for it AND you! I am a cradle-Catholic who has struggled for many years with a faltering Faith, & this is the first time in my life I am getting through The Bible. Your teaching commentary at the end of each set of readings has made all the difference, as my brain so often cannot follow the foreign concepts & poetic nature of Biblical wording.
I also appreciate all the modes of accessibility of BIAY. I listen on my phone, my tablet, & my laptop depending on my need at the time, & though I am not hearing impaired, having BIAY available with text apparently enhances the capacity to absorb the content in the presence of certain learning disabilities! I didn't even realize I needed the text until I experienced an increased ability to attend to the content today! YAY! You are truly doing God's work & I have no doubt He is well-pleased!
Thank you again, so very much... I am thrilled & hugely grateful to have such stellar resources to support my efforts to return to Faith, & grow ever stronger in my relationship with God. This work done by you & the BIAY team absolutely makes a difference... it changes lives & it helps save Souls. May God bless you all. 🙏✝️🔥😇
[`12.7.2021]
December 3: "Love never ends; as for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away. For our knowledge is imperfect and our prophecy is imperfect; but when the perfect comes, the imperfect will pass away. When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child; when I became a man, I gave up childish ways. For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall understand fully, even as I have been fully understood. So faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love."
1 Corinthians 13: 8-13
Love is the greatest of all three bedrock virtues of the Christian faith.
It will abide, in a sense, even after our faith has become sight and our hope in eternity has been fully realized.
May I love the way that I am loved. And may my love be felt long after I am gone.
Amen.
Oh Fr Mike....that was so beautiful ❤️I hope and pray to strive for these gifts. Praying for you and everyone here. God bless🙏❤️🙏
Thank you for your beautiful prayer and may the same prayer be upon you Father Mike..I am praying for you💓🙏
Amen 🙏. 11-19-2023
Amen. What a beautiful prayer Father Mike. Be blessed forever and all the children of God. I keep praying for you. I'm so grateful to Our Lord Jesus to hear by your voice this reading of the Law of Love which my husband and I chose to be read on the day of our rrarriage since nearly 43 years ago on a 29th december. May we be guided by the Holy Spirit.
Thank you lord for Fr. Mike and his wisdom.
Amen 🙏 to your powerful prayer Father Mike and thank you!!
Day 337 - Tuesday December 3rd, 2024 The importance of love.
Today’s readings are Acts 16, 1 Corinthians 13-14, and Proverbs 28:13-15.
IN nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti. Amen.
PATER NOSTER, qui es in caelis, sanctificetur nomen tuum. Adveniat regnum tuum. Fiat voluntas tua, sicut in caelo et in terra. Panem nostrum quotidianum da nobis hodie, et dimitte nobis debita nostra sicut et nos dimittimus debitoribus nostris. Et ne nos inducas in tentationem, sed libera nos a malo. Amen.
AVE MARIA, gratia plena, Dominus tecum. Benedicta tu in mulieribus, et benedictus fructus ventris tui, Iesus. Sancta Maria, Mater Dei, ora pro nobis peccatoribus, nunc, et in hora mortis nostrae. Amen.
GLORIA Patri, et Filio, et Spiritui Sancto. Sicut erat in principio, et nunc, et semper, et in saecula saeculorum. Amen.
Thank you so much for the prayer, Father Mike! God bless! 🙏🌷
God bless.
Amen
God help make me Holy
This prayer at the end made me cry. I could really feel it. Wonderful podcast. Thank you :) Praying for all of you listening as well
Same here..those words came straight from the heart!
I keep learning everyday with BIAY! God bless! 🙏🏼🙏🏼
God=Love. The teachings on love here helped me grow so much.
Wow! I felt a shiver at the end of this one…Come Holy Spirit!
December 5, 2023
When the Catechism is complete (or maybe even now), consider 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!
December 5, 2023
Do you have just a moment in time to pray for Souls in Purgatory 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)
Thani you for your prayers Father Mike. God bless you!!!
This one, this is the one! ❤️
Thank you God bless Rev father Holy Bible speach verry well all ways I am catholic our country some peoples went to astrology side they have lot of problem our cattholic side all ways pray to God our churches our home
Thank you Fr Mike.
Ave...amen
Immaculate Heart of Mary, Blessed Mother of the Eucharistic Christ, please bless Fr Mike and his family.
Thank you so much Fr Mike. Looking forward to the Catechism in a year!
Praise the Lord!
Our Lady of Guadalupe pray for us
Finally!
I love BIAY, thank you Lord for using BIAY to spread your word.
Day 334 bible in year
thankyou sooo much Fr Mike. This podcast reading and studying the Bible has done so much for my Faith journey. I have shared with many including my family. May God continue to bless you in doing God's work.
Acts 😊
Happy Sunday everyone. Keeping all of you in my prayers.
What a positive message for us all!!! Death is not the end. Thx for reminding us Fr. Mike.
God Bless you Fr Mike
Whoohoo!!! I LOVE THIS!💗👏🙏⭐
16/12/21 lockdown restrictions nearly all lifted. But I am nearly done praise the Lord
Thank You, Father.
This teaching is amazing, clear, & so needed to be lived out🙏🙏🙏❤❤❤
Thank you so Much Father Mike. Listening to this Bible podcast all year have helped my life in so many ways. My native language is Spanish and i have many Friends in Latinamerica. I wish this Bible podcast will have the spanish captions option in the future so i can share with my Spanish speaking Friends.
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Fr. Mike mentioned Ascension Presents was planning on translating the B.IA.Y. Hopefully it will eventually be translated into Spanish.
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All you need is love, tra la la la la ! loving life, love you Fr Mike, love love love this reading today, thank you.
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I went to a "holy roller" church and what a bunch of confusion but as individuals the people for the most part were cordial to each other and me but as a member of the Catholic Church I didn't belong there but God bless them and bring them to the truth.
Oh, im glad its all documented somewhere.
Ifci could recall if i ever had any friends,
a little while to think about this.
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I would like you to address 1 Corinthians, Chapter 14:34 and 35. Is verse 36 Paul's rationalization for 34 and 35?
Very interesting observations. Love surely is the greatest of gifts. I'm still not sure speaking in tongues mean, but I guess it just means that whenever you speak, anyone who has a different language can understand you. I notice you didn't comment about not having women speak in the church. I assume it was the habit in those days that women were not equal to men in many ways. Makes sense to me and I believe in believe women should not be priests. Maybe deacons, but that's for the church to decide.
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To add to my understanding in Fr. Mike's reflection on 1 corth 13 and why charisma of prophecy and tongues arent equal to Love here's Jesus words from Mthw 7:
Many will say to me on that day ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name and in your name drive out demons and in your name perform many miracles?’ Then I will tell them plainly, ‘I never knew you. Away from me, you evildoers!
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Proverbs 28
13 - You will never succeed in life if you try to hide your sins. Confess them and give them up; then God will show mercy to you.
14 - Always obey the Lord and you will be happy. If you are stubborn, you will be ruined.
15 - Poor people are helpless against a wicked ruler; he is as dangerous as a growling lion or a prowling bear.
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Never cincluded that looking after the sick would be a better idea.
Not just filling your head with words,
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I have so many questions on this. What really is speaking in tongues. Why don’t we do in at mass? It sounds more like non Catholic Church activity. How do you know if someone is giving a prophecy that is from God? Are there any new prophets today? Are there any healers? I just have so many questions.
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And what they get, at the endcof the day at the end of your works, is someone that doesn't want you, or want to know you,
Father, you again forgot commenting on the topic around status of women mentioned in the letter of Saint Paul... :) which is a quite significant and conspicuous.
THAT'S ⬆️ what I was waiting to hear him speak on!🙏📿
What about the part where women shouldn't talk in Church?