Day 229: Shepherds of Israel (2025)

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

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🗓️ 17 August 2025

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Summary

Fr. Mike explains the beautiful connections between all of our readings today. He emphasizes how good shepherds are willing to face the truth, and also sacrifice for their sheep, like Jesus who laid down his life for us. In our reading of Jeremiah, Fr. Mike also explains that the experience of shame points to the reality that there is something good within us that ought not to be violated. Today we read Jeremiah 6, Ezekiel 34-35, and Proverbs 14:25-28.

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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 we
0:07.8	encounter God's voice and live life through the lens of scripture. The Bible in a year podcast is
0:12.2	brought to you by Ascension. Using the great adventure Bible timeline, we'll read all the way from
0:16.0	Genesis to Revelation, discovering how the story of salvation unfolds and how we fit into that story
0:20.4	today.
0:25.9	It is day 229. We are reading today from Jeremiah chapter 6. We're trucking along there in Jeremiah, the beginning chapters of his book. We're also reading Ezekiel chapter 34 and 35 about
0:31.8	the false shepherds, about the good shepherds, about prophecy against seer. So good, so good.
0:36.1	My gosh. Praise the Lord for this. We're also reading Proverbs chapter 14 versus 25 through 28. So good, so good. My gosh, praise the Lord for this.
0:37.8	We're also reading Proverbs chapter 14 versus 25 through 28. As always, the Bible translation
0:42.3	I am reading from is the revised standard version second Catholic edition. I'm using the
0:46.4	great adventure Bible from Ascension. If you want to download your own Bible in a year reading
0:49.8	plan, you can visit ascensionpress.com slash Bible in a year. You can also subscribe to this
0:53.8	podcast by clicking on subscribe and receive daily episodes
0:56.3	and daily updates and all those daily, daily things.
0:59.3	As I said, it is day 229.
1:01.2	We're reading Jeremiah chapter 6, Ezekiel chapter 34 and 35 in Proverbs, chapter 14,
1:06.4	verses 25 through 28.
1:09.6	The Book of the Prophet Jeremiah, chapter 6, a warning to Judah.
1:15.1	Flee for safety, O people of Benjamin, from the midst of Jerusalem. Blow the trumpet into
1:20.1	Koa and raise a signal on Beth Hakharim, for evil looms out of the north and great destruction.
1:26.6	The comely and delicately bred I will destroy,
1:29.5	the daughter of Zion. Shepherds with their flocks shall come against her. They shall pitch their
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