Hi, my name is Father Mike Schmitz, and you're listening to the Bible in a year podcast,

where we encounter God's voice and live life through the lens of scripture.

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Using the great adventure Bible timeline, we'll read all the way from Genesis to Revelation,

discovering how the story of salvation unfolds and how we fit into that story today.

It is day 282. We have departed from the time of the exile, the time of the exile, the story of salvation unfolds and how we fit into that story today. It is day 282.

We have departed from the time of the exile, the time of the return, and now we are in the

Maccabian revolt that time period. A number of books that, the majority of people who are part

of this, y'all part of this Bible in the year community, maybe have never read. But the Orthodox Church and the Catholic Church believe these books to be part of this Bible in a year community maybe have never read, but the Orthodox Church and the Catholic

Church believe these books to be part of the canon. They're called the Deudorocanical books. We talked

a little bit about them when we read the book of Judith and Baruch and Tobit and some of the parts

of Daniel and Esther that were not necessarily in the Protestant translations of the Bible.

And so here we are.

We have these books that are just really incredible.

They are inspired, again, considered inspired from the very beginning of Christianity.

I mean, it worked out.

The church, the Bible was really codified in maybe say 350, 398 with the different council of Rome, a council of Carthage

in 398. And then when it was challenged in the 1500s, the council of Trent said, okay,

these 73 books, including these books in the Septuagint. Now, one of the reasons why,

well, we'll get into it later on, but they're in great company right now in day 282. We're reading first Maccabees chapter 1, which is actually quite a long chapter. All these chapters of Maccabees are a bit longer. So settle in and enjoy this story. It's remarkable. It's incredible. It's dramatic. It's phenomenal. It's courageous. And also Syrac chapter 1, 2, and 3. We're also reading Proverbs 21 versus 29 to 31. As always, the Bible translation 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 visit ascensionpress.com slash Bible in a year. You can also subscribe to this podcast, but clicking on subscribe and receiving daily episodes and daily updates. As I said, is the first day, day 282 of the Maccabian Revolt.

And so enjoy the story. The story is remarkable. First Maccabees is what we're doing for the next number of days. And then afterwards as second Maccabees, they're kind of the same story told in different ways, kind of a little bit like Numbers in Deuteronomy were more or less the same story

told in different ways, but we'll get there when we get there.

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