Day 157: Following Jesus (2025)

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

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🗓️ 6 June 2025

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

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.
0:10.8	The Bible in a year podcast is brought to you by Ascension using the Great Adventure Bible timeline.
0:14.7	We'll read all the way from Genesis to Revelation, discovering how the story of salvation unfolds
0:19.0	and how we fit into that story today.
0:20.5	It is day 157.
0:22.1	We are on day four of our second messianic checkpoint through the Gospel of St. Mark.
0:25.9	We're reading Gospel of Mark chapters 7 and 8.
0:28.2	We're also praying Psalm 23, which is going to sound familiar to many of you.
0:32.4	Psalm 23 today, as always, the Bible translation that I'm reading from is the revised standard version, second Catholic edition. I'm using the great adventure Bible from Ascension to read the scriptures.
0:41.8	To download your own Bible in a year reading plan, you can visit ascensionpress.com
0:45.4	slash Bible in a year. And if you want to, and you're able to, you can subscribe to this
0:48.8	podcast in order to receive daily episodes. You also can rate this podcast. I don't know if anyone knows about that, but you can. You can give it zero stars. You give it one star. You can give it five stars. You can
0:57.9	write a review, whatever you like to do. But we are on day 157, which is remarkable. And just,
1:04.2	I know I say this too often, but gosh, what a gift. For 157 days, you have opened your heart and opened your mind to God's word.
1:12.2	And that is, that is, it's, it's not small.
1:14.8	It is not a small thing.
1:15.7	And so here we are reading from the Gospel of Mark chapter seven and eight and praying
1:19.6	Psalm 23.
1:22.5	The gospel of St. Mark chapter seven.
1:24.9	The tradition of the elders.
1:27.4	Now when the Pharisees gathered together to him with some of the scribes would come from Jerusalem,
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