Lord Jesus, I humbly pray for myself, Father Mike, & all the people participating in the Bible-in-Year podcast. May your word take deep root in our hearts & transform our ways of thinking, discerning, and acting. May your grace open our ears to hear & understand both the Old & the New Testaments that we may revere & treasure the words which God has prepared for all who desire to enter his kingdom. Send us your Holy Spirit to give us the Spirit of Knowledge, that we may know God and know ourselves. Give us the grace to approach the Word of God with meekness & humility, & with an eagerness to do everything God desires. Help us to be diligent students & faithful disciples of your Word. May our hearts never grow dull & may our ears never tire of listening to your voice. Amen.
There are so many parallels to be drawn between then and our present day. We have to continue the fight for the truth, even when the hope will not be realized in this world or in our lifetime.
An important reminder of how God knows our future and He cares for us as evident from the prophecy of Judah returning from exile. *Ezekiel ch12- God's net spread over Zedekiah and brought him to Babylon but he won't see it. It came true as Babylon King Nebuchadnezzer slew his sons in front of his eyes (very harsh) and then took out his eyes (extremely inhumane) before taking him to Babylon. * Fr. Mike is so right about the connections throughout the books. God predicted that the lost sabbath days (the days dedicated to worship) will be returned to Judah. This was predicted even before Cyrus made it compulsory for Judah to observe the sabbath days. * Exile does have a theme of hope amidst bad results of bad deeds. Zedekiah didn't repent when Nebuchadnezzer told him to do it. Thus, it seems that even the kings outside Judah were aware of the importance of following what forefathers did but Zedekiah didn't remember King David and how he was faithful. At least he should have repented like Manassah. *All of this is connected with Jesus and the power of repentance. Thank you so much, Fr. Mike and Team Ascension. God bless you and the fellow listeners
Interesting to hear the role of the Chaldeans in the Bible. I am Chaldean and never knew this took place. Loving the history and the Bible in a year with Father Mike. May God bless him and all those commiting to the Bible in a Year!!
I BELIEVE WHEN YOU READ THE BIBLE IN A YEAR WITH AN OPEN HEART & MIND, THERE IS NO WAY YOU COULD NOT BE TRANSFORMED! I AM SO GRATEFUL. THANK YOU FR. MIKE! I HAVE LEARNED SO MUCH! MOST IMPORTANT - MY RELATIONSHIP WITH OUR LORD HAS DEEPENED! PRAISE GOD!
Always praying that our brothers and sisters in Christ will strive to learn the true teachings of scripture and find themselves at Home with the Catholic Church!!
Reading, listening 🎧 from the Philippines 🇵🇭 . Thank you Fr Mike for this Bible in a year. I'm struggling reading the Bible before and now thanks to you. 💯🙏🙏🙏
I am eer so grateful for this education in my faith. I only wish I had invested my time fully when I was younger, and avoided many pitfalls, I now can see in scripture how clear the warnings and encouragement are to do good in the sight of the Lord. Journey on.
Out of EVERY prayer, through this whole journey, THIS was the one God knew I needed. Thank you Fr Mike for your voice of which God spoke to me through. 🙏
Wow! This made me cry and reflect more. How the Lord waits us always, but our stubborn heart makes us to go through horrible situation in our lives. Forgive us Lord and open our eyes to see you present and change our attitudes to follow your Commandments faithfully. Thank you Fr. Mike.
Lord, You are our friend. Thank you for speaking to us in so many different ways - through your creation, your word and in prayer. Remind us to commune with you, the importance of being in a fellowship of believers and having ears ready to listen. May we always be discerning your will and readily turn to you when we fall off the right path. Thank you for calling us back! 🙏🏻
Thank You Fr Mike so very much for guiding us through these bible studies. I recently learned of a condition happening in my heart that I have never heard of before and I’ve been a nurse for 50 years. While I’ve always been very strong in my faith I’m learning so much through these Bible readings. I’m also finding strength. So again thank you so very much.
As we go along, with each day, I feel like I am learning more and more about the Old Testament. Let's keep praying for Father Mike and each other for God to illuminate us to better understand the readings.
Thank You Father Mike for sharing the Bible with all of us. It is a true blessing to be able tot understand the word of our Lord. It helps us to grow closer to our God. Praying for Father Mike and anyone else who is in need of prayers
July 10, 2023 Round Two Please pray for Souls in Purgatory. Go ahead, just take about 30 seconds to help save a soul that maybe is your family member or friend! Go forth and help save! Here is the prayer: (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.) The Prayer of St. Gertrude Eternal Father, I offer Thee 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, those in my own home and within my family. Amen. God would reply to St. Gertrude that He would use whatever was offered to Him for the faithful departed, according to His inclination to show pardon & mercy.
July 10, 2023 Round Two A great addition to Father Mike’s Bible in a Year and Catechism in a Year is Saint Faustina’s Diary. I urge you to listen to or read her Diary to help guide you in this life. Jesus I trust in You. #DivineMercy
I'm going to have to go through this entire Bible in a year or two or three times . I don't have many distractions but it's hard to follow with so many names of people and places.
I can’t remember when I started listening and reading along to the Bible in Year but I know it was sometime in May…. Just reached 191… phew what a wonderful journey 🙏
Suggestion: it has been such a blessing to have the whole picture of the story of salvation this year with the Bible in a Year. Next year it would be nice to see the Catechism of the Catholic Church in a year. People is hungry for formation! All the Ascension Presents videos are great! Father Mike and Jeff Cavins million thanks for this great work!
Very dark and tragic history of the Jewish people killed or carried into exile. However, after 70 years, King Cyrus of Persia sends the Jewish people back and restores the Temple. The people will rise from the ashes of Jerusalem.
Thank you Father Mike. Please help those in Purgatory by praying for them. We may need help one day just like this. Consider listening to the Marian Press Podcast of Saint Faustina’s Diary in a Year with Father Roesch. It is also on TH-cam and each day’s reading is only 7 minutes! What a blessing this diary is! June 21, 2022
10:29 Father in heaven, we give you praise. And as we come to a conclusion of this portion of the story, we know that, ah gosh Lord, where all things seem dark, where all things seem dark, especially in our lives, we recognize that they are truly dark. They can be real dark, there is real death, there’s real suffering, there’s real destruction, and yet we keep walking. Lord God, you’ve given us the ability to continue to move and act in this world, to continue to cry out to you, to call out to you with our broken hearts, to cry out to you with our broken lives, even in the midst of darkness. You give us the power to walk. Help us, Lord God. Help us to walk with hope, knowing that darkness is not dark for you, the end is not the end for you. That even the grave is not the end for you because we know that you’ve conquered sin. You conquered suffering, you conquered death and your resurrection. And so, Lord God, like you will bring resurrection to the people of Israel, although it will take so long, bring resurrection to our lives, bring healing to our lives. Restore us, restore us to our home, restore us to your heart. In Jesus’ name we pray. Amen. †
Thank you Lord God for the opportunity to follow this Grand Story of You - The Bible together with this community under Fr. Mike guidance. I humbly submit my request for prayers here. Today I shared the prayer of Fr. Mike from this Day 191 with my wife from whom I am separated (both of us are not aligned at all with each other even after more than 2 decades together, but only trying each of us to be with God near). Especially the prayer from today I saw as a good prayer for those in big struggle and in suffering, especially inner suffering, soul suffering, and in desperate situation or otherwise said in a situation from which you see no way out. At least with our human eyes and poor souls. Thank you for every little intention raised to the Lord God.
Father Mike - wasn't the tribe of Levi primarily operating the Temple in Jerusalem but also governing those cities of refuge? When we say 10 tribes of the North are gone away, does that include Levi? If so, then when the Temple is rebuilt who does the Temple duties as only Judah and Benjamin remain?
2 Chronicles 36:9 Jehoiachin was eighteen years old when he came to the throne... Fr Mike mentioned "eight years old" or is it that the caption is incorrect..... appreciate if Ascenion BIAY team could clarify which is correct. Thanks. sorry to be picky, but this podcast is going to be here forever...
I look at the exile as being a good thing. The Israelites and their kings angered God so He taken away from them their land and scattered them. Again this happens with the Jews and their kings of Judah but God spared the tribes of Judah and Benjamin given them the opportunity to return to Him. It's only through their suffering they realize what they lost. Of course the Messiah they were hoping for wasn't what He turned out to be they believe a king would come to give back to them their land. This obviously is not the Messiah we recognize as Christians in which our King and His Kingdom will never perish.
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It never ceases to amaze me how you can pronounce all those names!
July 9, 2024 - Day 191 🙏
God help me to walk in hope because You conquered death.❤
July 9, 2024 Tuesday. Here I am.
Lord Jesus, I humbly pray for myself, Father Mike, & all the people participating in the Bible-in-Year podcast. May your word take deep root in our hearts & transform our ways of thinking, discerning, and acting. May your grace open our ears to hear & understand both the Old & the New Testaments that we may revere & treasure the words which God has prepared for all who desire to enter his kingdom. Send us your Holy Spirit to give us the Spirit of Knowledge, that we may know God and know ourselves. Give us the grace to approach the Word of God with meekness & humility, & with an eagerness to do everything God desires. Help us to be diligent students & faithful disciples of your Word. May our hearts never grow dull & may our ears never tire of listening to your voice. Amen.
Amen.
There are so many parallels to be drawn between then and our present day. We have to continue the fight for the truth, even when the hope will not be realized in this world or in our lifetime.
Shout out Catholic bros and sistas ✌️ persevere and wear your brown scapular 🙏 greetings from South Texas
Day 191 ❤❤❤
Amen❤❤❤
An important reminder of how God knows our future and He cares for us as evident from the prophecy of Judah returning from exile.
*Ezekiel ch12- God's net spread over Zedekiah and brought him to Babylon but he won't see it. It came true as Babylon King Nebuchadnezzer slew his sons in front of his eyes (very harsh) and then took out his eyes (extremely inhumane) before taking him to Babylon.
* Fr. Mike is so right about the connections throughout the books. God predicted that the lost sabbath days (the days dedicated to worship) will be returned to Judah. This was predicted even before Cyrus made it compulsory for Judah to observe the sabbath days.
* Exile does have a theme of hope amidst bad results of bad deeds. Zedekiah didn't repent when Nebuchadnezzer told him to do it. Thus, it seems that even the kings outside Judah were aware of the importance of following what forefathers did but Zedekiah didn't remember King David and how he was faithful. At least he should have repented like Manassah.
*All of this is connected with Jesus and the power of repentance.
Thank you so much, Fr. Mike and Team Ascension. God bless you and the fellow listeners
Thanks!
Thank you for supporting Ascension! May God bless you 💛
God bless you Fr. Mike!
Really have been enjoying these readings, I've listend to 9 today just trying to play catch up. Next year I plan to keep more ontop of it. :0)
3 Hail Mary. Said for you Father Mike ❤❤❤❤
Interesting to hear the role of the Chaldeans in the Bible. I am Chaldean and never knew this took place. Loving the history and the Bible in a year with Father Mike. May God bless him and all those commiting to the Bible in a Year!!
I am going through the BIY this second time and learning something new every lay. Thanks for the blessing and I am also praying for you.❤🙏
Woah, that's cool.
Day 191..lead me Lord!
July 10, 2023
Round Two
Saint Faustina pray for us.
I BELIEVE WHEN YOU READ THE BIBLE IN A YEAR WITH AN OPEN HEART & MIND, THERE IS NO WAY YOU COULD NOT BE TRANSFORMED!
I AM SO GRATEFUL. THANK YOU FR. MIKE! I HAVE LEARNED SO MUCH! MOST IMPORTANT - MY RELATIONSHIP WITH OUR LORD HAS DEEPENED! PRAISE GOD!
Praying for Fr. Mike & BIY 🙏🙏🙏 Looking forward to starting the Prophets.
PRAY, PRAY, PRAY FOR THE TRUE CATHOLIC CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST !!!
Praying with you . 🙏
@@dianefrank3688 Me too!
Everyday🙏🏻❣️🙏🏻
Always praying that our brothers and sisters in Christ will strive to learn the true teachings of scripture and find themselves at Home with the Catholic Church!!
Reading, listening 🎧 from the Philippines 🇵🇭 . Thank you Fr Mike for this Bible in a year. I'm struggling reading the Bible before and now thanks to you. 💯🙏🙏🙏
Praying for everyone journeying BIY 🙏
Date 09 - July- 2024
I am eer so grateful for this education in my faith. I only wish I had invested my time fully when I was younger, and avoided many pitfalls, I now can see in scripture how clear the warnings and encouragement are to do good in the sight of the Lord. Journey on.
Day 191 _ The Babylonian exile - Tuesday July 9th, 2024.
Thank you Father Mike Schmitz and Ascension Presents / Press. Deo gratias.
Out of EVERY prayer, through this whole journey, THIS was the one God knew I needed. Thank you Fr Mike for your voice of which God spoke to me through. 🙏
Wow! This made me cry and reflect more. How the Lord waits us always, but our stubborn heart makes us to go through horrible situation in our lives. Forgive us Lord and open our eyes to see you present and change our attitudes to follow your Commandments faithfully. Thank you Fr. Mike.
This was an amazing biblical lesson! Thank you!
Lord, You are our friend. Thank you for speaking to us in so many different ways - through your creation, your word and in prayer. Remind us to commune with you, the importance of being in a fellowship of believers and having ears ready to listen. May we always be discerning your will and readily turn to you when we fall off the right path. Thank you for calling us back! 🙏🏻
Thank You Fr Mike so very much for guiding us through these bible studies. I recently learned of a condition happening in my heart that I have never heard of before and I’ve been a nurse for 50 years. While I’ve always been very strong in my faith I’m learning so much through these Bible readings. I’m also finding strength. So again thank you so very much.
As we go along, with each day, I feel like I am learning more and more about the Old Testament. Let's keep praying for Father Mike and each other for God to illuminate us to better understand the readings.
Praying for all..🙏🙏🙏✝️✝️❤️❤️
At this time I’m grateful for the hope of God . It’s been a scary 3 years.
I started BIAY on January 1st 2023, hoping to finish this journey in 2024.
Praise you my Lord My God ❤❤❤Amen prayers Father Mike Amen
Thank You Father Mike for sharing the Bible with all of us. It is a true blessing to be able tot understand the word of our Lord. It helps us to grow closer to our God. Praying for Father Mike and anyone else who is in need of prayers
Praying. Near the end of your conversation sometimes I get confused. Praying to stay focused. 🙏
I think everyone should subscribe if they can to show support for such a great program! Thank you Father Mike!
I agree. One of the best channels on youtube.
I can't wait, too, Father Mike. Thank you so much for your patience with us. I am praying for you everyday. God bless and protect you, Father Mike.
AMEN 🙏.
Lord, What violence! This earth is drenched with blood,. I can't understand this. But you read the names beautifully. Thank you.
Proverbs 9:6
Leave simpleness
(ignorance) , and live ,
and walk in the way of insight (knowledge) .
Amen
God bless you Father Mike! What a blessing on this day! ❤️
Thank u Father Mike 💫
Our Lord is our healer. By our faith in God we are healed.✨
Bound him in feathers...auto closed captions always good for a laugh. Pretty sure it's fetters.
Haha, true!
lol
“He uncovers the deeps out of darkness, and brings deep darkness to light.”
Job 12:22
July 10, 2023
Round Two
Please pray for Souls in Purgatory. Go ahead, just take about 30 seconds to help save a soul that maybe is your family member or friend! Go forth and help save! Here is the prayer:
(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.)
The Prayer of St. Gertrude
Eternal Father, I offer Thee 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, those in my own home and within my family. Amen.
God would reply to St. Gertrude that He would use whatever was offered to Him for the faithful departed, according to His inclination to show pardon & mercy.
July 10, 2023
Round Two
A great addition to Father Mike’s Bible in a Year and Catechism in a Year is Saint Faustina’s Diary. I urge you to listen to or read her Diary to help guide you in this life. Jesus I trust in You. #DivineMercy
Praying for everyone ❤😘🥰😍
I'm going to have to go through this entire Bible in a year or two or three times . I don't have many distractions but it's hard to follow with so many names of people and places.
Thank you again to today. Starts my day and centers my day. I have reposted these videos on Facebook to spread the word.
Bless you Father-praying for you and for your Catechism adventure.
I can’t remember when I started listening and reading along to the Bible in Year but I know it was sometime in May…. Just reached 191… phew what a wonderful journey 🙏
Suggestion: at the end of the year re-release this podcast edited as an audiobook and give it to everyone who bought the great adventure Bible
Suggestion: it has been such a blessing to have the whole picture of the story of salvation this year with the Bible in a Year. Next year it would be nice to see the Catechism of the Catholic Church in a year. People is hungry for formation! All the Ascension Presents videos are great! Father Mike and Jeff Cavins million thanks for this great work!
Well, how about those who buy from overseas.😀😭
Would love catechism
I would also love to see a podcast of the catechism.
What about the people who live in Canada and can’t get the great adventure bible. Should be available to everyone
Thank you Father Mike God bless you always amen
Praying for you Father Mike and everyone on this journey Amen 🙏
Appreciate you Father!
Thank you 🙏🏻 praying for you 🙏🏻
🙏❤️
Such a marvelous way to start the morning!
I like not knowjng what's coming.
Let's gooo!
Also, I was moved hearing about the king seeing his sons killed.
Thank you so much Fr.Mike S.! May God bless you always.
Thank you Fr. Mike Schmitz
God bless you all.
Thank you Fr Mike 🌹🙏🌹
Father mike thank you for sharing God Bless
God bless
Thank you so much!!!
Amen!
Thank you Fr Mike, ✝🙏📿📖❤
Amen 🙏
Very dark and tragic history of the Jewish people killed or carried into exile. However, after 70 years, King Cyrus of Persia sends the Jewish people back and restores the Temple. The people will rise from the ashes of Jerusalem.
Praise God.
Thank you Father Mike.
Please help those in Purgatory by praying for them. We may need help one day just like this.
Consider listening to the Marian Press Podcast of Saint Faustina’s Diary in a Year with Father Roesch. It is also on TH-cam and each day’s reading is only 7 minutes! What a blessing this diary is!
June 21, 2022
🙏
10:29
Father in heaven, we give you praise. And as we come to a conclusion of this portion of the story, we know that, ah gosh Lord, where all things seem dark, where all things seem dark, especially in our lives, we recognize that they are truly dark. They can be real dark, there is real death, there’s real suffering, there’s real destruction, and yet we keep walking. Lord God, you’ve given us the ability to continue to move and act in this world, to continue to cry out to you, to call out to you with our broken hearts, to cry out to you with our broken lives, even in the midst of darkness. You give us the power to walk. Help us, Lord God. Help us to walk with hope, knowing that darkness is not dark for you, the end is not the end for you. That even the grave is not the end for you because we know that you’ve conquered sin. You conquered suffering, you conquered death and your resurrection. And so, Lord God, like you will bring resurrection to the people of Israel, although it will take so long, bring resurrection to our lives, bring healing to our lives. Restore us, restore us to our home, restore us to your heart. In Jesus’ name we pray. Amen.
†
Thank you Lord God for the opportunity to follow this Grand Story of You - The Bible together with this community under Fr. Mike guidance. I humbly submit my request for prayers here. Today I shared the prayer of Fr. Mike from this Day 191 with my wife from whom I am separated (both of us are not aligned at all with each other even after more than 2 decades together, but only trying each of us to be with God near). Especially the prayer from today I saw as a good prayer for those in big struggle and in suffering, especially inner suffering, soul suffering, and in desperate situation or otherwise said in a situation from which you see no way out. At least with our human eyes and poor souls. Thank you for every little intention raised to the Lord God.
❤️❤️❤️🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Anyway to mention page number of the Holy Bible the Great Adventure Catholic Bible. Thanks
Day 191, 2/21/2022
Father Mike - wasn't the tribe of Levi primarily operating the Temple in Jerusalem but also governing those cities of refuge? When we say 10 tribes of the North are gone away, does that include Levi? If so, then when the Temple is rebuilt who does the Temple duties as only Judah and Benjamin remain?
23 May 22
What happened to the Ark?
Maybe some wise people saw what was happening and hid it?
Are you going to do a series on Revolutions?
So is this when the 10 commandments were lost?
What happened to the Ark during this time?
2 Chronicles 36:9 Jehoiachin was eighteen years old when he came to the throne... Fr Mike mentioned "eight years old" or is it that the caption is incorrect..... appreciate if Ascenion BIAY team could clarify which is correct. Thanks. sorry to be picky, but this podcast is going to be here forever...
Looks like Fr Mike read it correctly. My copy of the Great Adventure Bible says eight, so it is a typographical error there.
❤️ 18/06/2022
Only the poor people were left behind - that’s interesting.
June 30, 2022 ✅
191
What babylon
Fr. Mike are you using a Protestant Bible? A Bible that excludes the Apocryphal Books?
He is using a Catholic Bible
The Great Adventure Catholic Bible
Why would a Catholic priest and a Catholic website use a Protestant Bible?
The Apocalypse books is Book of Revelations
I look at the exile as being a good thing. The Israelites and their kings angered God so He taken away from them their land and scattered them. Again this happens with the Jews and their kings of Judah but God spared the tribes of Judah and Benjamin given them the opportunity to return to Him. It's only through their suffering they realize what they lost. Of course the Messiah they were hoping for wasn't what He turned out to be they believe a king would come to give back to them their land. This obviously is not the Messiah we recognize as Christians in which our King and His Kingdom will never perish.
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Thank you Father Mike. God Bless.
Thanks!
AMEN 🙏.
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Amen 🙏
Amen 🙏🙏🙏