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🗓️ 6 June 2023
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Fr. Mike emphasizes that following Jesus as his disciples requires remarkable humility, faith, purity of heart, and courage. Today's readings are Mark 7-8 and Psalm 23.
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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, |
0:07.4 | where we encounter God's voice and live life through the lens of Scripture. |
0:10.6 | The Bible in a year podcast is brought to you by Ascension, using the great |
0:13.6 | Adventure Bible timeline. We'll read all the way from Genesis to Revelation, |
0:16.8 | discovering how the story of salvation unfolds and how we fit into that story today. |
0:20.4 | This day 157, we are on day four of our second Missyannic checkpoint through the gospel of |
0:25.2 | Saint Mark. We're reading a couple of Mark chapters seven and eight. We're also praying Psalm 23, |
0:29.7 | which is going to sound familiar to many of you. Psalm 23 today, as always, the Bible translation |
0:34.4 | that I'm reading from, is the revised standard version, second Catholic edition. I'm using the |
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0:58.8 | I'm whatever you like to do, but we are on day 157, which is remarkable. And just, I know I say |
1:04.8 | this too often, but gosh, what a gift for 157 days. You have opened your heart and opened your mind |
1:10.8 | to God's word. And that is, and that is, it's, it's not small. It is not a small thing. And so |
1:15.8 | here we are reading from the Gospel of Mark, chapter 7 and 8, in praying Psalm 23. |
1:22.3 | The Gospel of St. Mark, chapter 7. The tradition of the elders. Now, when the Pharisees gathered |
1:28.5 | together to him with some of the scribes would come from Jerusalem, they saw that some of his disciples |
1:33.3 | ate with hands defiled, that is unwashed. For the Pharisees and all the Jews do not eat unless they |
1:38.6 | wash their hands observing the tradition of the elders. And when they come from the marketplace, |
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