Day 206: The Book of Baruch (2025)

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🗓️ 25 July 2025

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Fr. Mike explains the context of the book of Baruch, he also highlights Isaiah's warning against complacency and how God's justice applies to everyone, even those who don't believe in Him. The readings are Isaiah 32-33, Baruch 1-2, and Proverbs 11:17-20.

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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,
0:07.3	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.
0:13.0	Using the great adventure Bible timeline, we'll read all the way from Genesis to Revelation,
0:17.1	discovering how the story of salvation unfolds and how we fit into that story today.
0:21.0	It is day 206, and we're reading from Isaiah chapter 32 and 33. We're also reading for the Prophet Baruch, chapter 1 and 2. Also Proverbs chapter 11 verses 17 through 20. 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. If you want to download your own bible in a year reading plan you can go to ascention press
0:40.0	dot com slash bible in a year and you can also subscribe to this podcast to receive daily episodes
0:44.9	as i said today's day 206 we're reading isaiah 32 and 33 also barouc is also one of those
0:51.6	seven dutorial canonical books that if you have only read Protestant Bibles
0:55.3	where Martin Luther had taken out those seven extra, well, they're extra to you.
1:00.4	But for us, as Catholics, they are part of the canon.
1:03.5	And for the Orthodox, it's part of the canon.
1:05.4	For the first Christians, they're part of the canon.
1:07.7	So we're going to read and hear from the prophet Baruch chapter 1 and 2,
1:11.1	as well as Proverbs 11 verses 17 through 20. The book of the prophet Isaiah chapter 32,
1:18.8	reign of righteousness and justice. Behold, a king will reign in righteousness, and princes
1:25.0	will rule in justice. Each will be like a hiding place from the
1:28.7	wind, a covert from the tempest, like streams of water in a dry place, like the shade of a great
1:34.3	rock in a weary land. Then the eyes of those who will see will not be closed, and the ears of those
1:40.3	who hear will listen. The mind of the rash will have good judgment and the tongue of
1:45.2	the stammerers will speak readily and distinctly. The fool will no more be called noble,
1:50.8	nor the knave said to be honorable. For the fool speaks folly and his mind plots iniquity,
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