Day 149: All Is Vanity (2025)

The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz)

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🗓️ 29 May 2025

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Summary

Today, we begin reading Ecclesiastes! Fr. Mike helps us understand the central theme of this book of wisdom literature—the meaning of life. What truly matters in this passing life? It's only because God exists that everything matters, and our choices and lives will endure into eternity. Today's readings are 1 Kings 7, Ecclesiastes 1-2, and Psalm 5.

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0:00.0	Hi, my name is Father Mike Schmitz, and you're listening to the Bible in a year podcast, where we
0:07.9	encounter God's voice and live life through the lens of scripture. The Bible in a year podcast is
0:11.9	brought to you by Ascension. Using the Great Adventure Bible timeline, we'll read all the way from
0:15.8	Genesis to Revelation, discovering how the story of salvation unfold and how we fit into that
0:19.8	story today. It is day 149. We are reading from 1st Kings chapter 7. We're also beginning today five days of
0:27.0	the book of Ecclesiastes, one of the wisdom books. We're reading Ecclesiastes chapter 1 and chapter 2.
0:31.9	We're also praying Psalm 5 today. As always, the Bible translation that I'm reading from is the
0:36.2	revised standard version, the second Catholic edition. I'm using the Great Adventure Bible from Ascension. If you want to
0:40.4	download your own Bible in a year reading plan, you can visit ascensionpress.com slash Bible in a
0:44.4	year. You can also subscribe to this podcast by clicking subscribe, and that would be wonderful.
0:49.3	Now, one quick note before we begin Ecclesiastes. We're continuing with King Solomon in 1st Kings, chapter 7.
0:55.8	He's going to be building his own home and some other kinds of things.
0:59.4	We're going to see some of those dimensions.
1:01.6	Like yesterday, we followed the building, the construction of the temple and what that looked like.
1:05.6	Today, it's Solomon's some of other buildings that he's building.
1:13.4	Ecclesiastes, it's one of the, as I said,
1:19.3	one of the books of wisdom literature. And so it is classically ascribed to Solomon himself, remembering that Solomon is the wisest man who ever lived. This book of Ecclesiastes,
1:24.0	this book of the song of Solomon is basically a wise person who's looking
1:31.3	at the world and looking at how people are living, looking at how he himself has lived,
1:35.9	and is saying, this is all vanity.
1:38.6	In fact, it'll say vanity of vanities.
1:40.7	Everything is vanity.
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