Day 224: The Weeping Prophet (2022)
The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz)
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🗓️ 12 August 2022
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
Fr. Mike introduces us to the prophet Jeremiah, who is also known as the Prophet of Doom and the Weeping Prophet. He explains what makes Jeremiah different than the other prophets, and encourages us to cling closely to him as we hear about his difficult call. Today's readings are Jeremiah 1, Ezekiel 27, and Proverbs 14:5-8.
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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 |
| 0:07.7 | we encounter God's voice and live life through the lens of Scripture. The Bible in a year |
| 0:11.5 | podcast is brought to you by Ascension. Using the great Adventure Bible timeline, we'll |
| 0:15.1 | read all the way from Genesis to Revelation, discovering how the story of salvation unfolds |
| 0:18.9 | and we've entered that story today. Congratulations, you guys have made it today, 224, and the beginning |
| 0:23.9 | of the Book of the Prophet Jeremiah, where we're reading today from Jeremiah, chapter 1, and Ezekiel, |
| 0:28.4 | chapter 27. So only two chapters or one chapter of peace from both our prophets, Jeremiah and Ezekiel, |
| 0:33.9 | as well as reading from Proverbs chapter 14 verses 5 through 8. As always, the Bible translation that |
| 0:38.8 | I'm reading from is the revised standard version, second Catholic edition. I'm using the great |
| 0:42.8 | Adventure Bible from Ascension. If you want to download your own Bible in a year reading plan, you |
| 0:46.4 | can visit AscensionPress.com slash Bible in a year. You can also subscribe to |
| 0:50.0 | your podcast app to this podcast and receive daily episodes. I don't know if you knew that. |
| 0:54.2 | Now many people say that, and I rarely have ever mentioned it. So if that's something that you |
| 0:58.6 | are interested in, please feel free to follow that interest and unravel that piece of thread and |
| 1:03.6 | keep pulling on it until you subscribe. As I said, it is day 224. We're reading from the beginning |
| 1:08.8 | of the Book of the Prophet, Jeremiah. We're going to hear today of the call of Jeremiah to be a |
| 1:12.4 | prophet and his commission is being sent by the Lord to be a prophet. We're also going to hear |
| 1:16.5 | Jeremiah, you know, kind of push back a little bit on this call. And as well as we're going to go |
| 1:21.6 | into the Book of the Prophet, Ezekiel, yesterday I mentioned that Ezekiel had prayed that, |
| 1:26.3 | you know, I didn't get the right line, but it was basically the idea that we want to love what |
| 1:30.8 | God loves. We want to hate what God hates. And I mentioned a song. I just want to say it right off |
| 1:36.3 | the bat. It was the line was I was like, what how did I make it this? It's a line that says, |
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