Hi, my name is Father Mike Schmitz, and you're listening to the Bible in a year podcast,

where we encounter God's voice and live life through the lens of scripture. The Bible in a year

podcast is brought to you by Ascension. Using the Great Adventure Bible timeline, we'll read all the way

from Genesis to Revelation, discovering how the story of salvation unfolds and how we fit into

that story today. It is day 156.

We are three days into reading from the gospel of St. Mark.

Today we're reading chapters 5 and 6.

We're also praying from Psalm 21.

As always, the Bible translation that I'm reading from is the revised standard version in the second Catholic edition.

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to the podcast. As I said, today is day three of our second messianic checkpoint.

We're reading from Mark, chapter 5 and 6. We're also praying Psalm 21.

The Gospel of St. Mark, chapter 5. Jesus heals the garrasine demoniac.

They came to the other side of the sea to the country of the garrisons,

and when he had come out of the boat, there met him out of the tombs, a man with an unclean

spirit who lived among the tombs, and no one could bind him anymore, even with a chain,

for he had often been bound with shackles and chains, but the chains he wrenched apart,

and the shackles he broke in pieces, and no one had

the strength to subdue him. Night and day, among the tombs and on the mountains, he was always

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