Day 285: Story of Hanukkah (2025)
The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz)
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🗓️ 12 October 2025
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
In today's reading from 1 Maccabees, we hear about the victory of Judas Maccabeus, which is also the story of Hanukkah. In Sirach, Fr. Mike points out that chasing fame and glory in this world are not worth our time, because they will all fade away after we are gone. The readings are 1 Maccabees 4, Sirach 10-12, and Proverbs 22:9-12.
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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 here podcast is |
| 0:12.0 | brought to you by Ascension. Using the Great Adventure Bible timeline, we'll read all the way from Genesis to |
| 0:16.4 | Revelation, discovering how the story of salvation unfolds, and I'll weave it into that story today. |
| 0:20.8 | It is day 285. We are four days into the Maccabeean Revolt. We're reading First Maccabees, Chapter 4, Syrac, chapter 10, 11, and 12, as well as Proverbs chapter 22 versus 9 through 12. As always, the Bible translation we are reading from is the Revised Standard Version, second Catholic edition. I'm using the great adventure bible from ascension if you want to |
| 0:37.6 | download your own bible in a year reading plan you can visit ascensionpress.com slash bible in a year |
| 0:41.8 | you can also subscribe to this podcast by clicking on subscribe and it is day 285 we're reading first |
| 0:47.7 | maccabees chapter four syrac chapter 10 11 and 12 and proverbs chapter 22 verses 9 through 12 |
| 0:55.5 | the first book of maccabees, chapter 4. The Battle at Emmaus. Now, Gorgias took 5,000 infantry |
| 1:02.9 | and a thousand picked cavalry, and this division moved out by night to fall upon the camp of |
| 1:08.0 | the Jews and attack them suddenly. Men from the citadel were his guides, but Judas heard of it, and he and his mighty men |
| 1:14.7 | moved out to attack the king's force in Emmaus while the division was still absent from the camp. |
| 1:19.4 | When Gorgias entered the camp of Judas by night, he found no one there, so he looked for them |
| 1:24.2 | in the hills because he said, these men are fleeing from us. |
| 1:27.8 | At daybreak, Judas appeared in the plain with 3,000 men, but they did not have armor and |
| 1:33.1 | swords such as they desired. |
| 1:35.0 | And they saw the camp of the Gentiles strong and fortified with cavalry round about it, and these |
| 1:40.0 | men were trained in war. |
| 1:41.7 | But Judas said to the men who were with him, do not fear their |
| 1:45.1 | numbers or be afraid when they charge. Remember how our fathers were saved at the Red Sea when |
| 1:50.0 | Pharaoh with his forces pursued them. And now let us cry to heaven to see whether he will favor |
| 1:54.9 | us and remember his covenant with our fathers and crush this army before us today. Then all the Gentiles |
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