Day 292: The Power of Words (2025)

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

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🗓️ 19 October 2025

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Summary

As we continue our journey in 1 Maccabees, Fr. Mike explains that this book of the Bible is unlike others because it narrates stories and events without providing any interpretation. In Sirach, Fr. Mike stresses the teaching on the power of our words and the gravity of gossip and slander. Today's readings are 1 Maccabees 11, Sirach 28-29, and Proverbs 23:9-12.

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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
0:08.0	encounter God's voice and live life through the lens of scripture. The Bible in a year podcast is
0:12.1	brought to you by Ascension. Using the great adventure Bible timeline, we'll read all the way from
0:15.6	Genesis to Revelation, discovering how the story of salvation unfolds and how we fit into that
0:20.4	story today.
0:20.9	It is day 292.
0:22.8	We are reading 1st Maccabees chapter 11, continuing the history of the story of the people
0:26.6	of God.
0:27.3	Syrac 28 and 29, Proverbs chapter 23, 9 through 12.
0:30.7	As always, the Bible translation I'm reading from is the revised standard version second
0:33.9	Catholic edition.
0:34.7	I'm using the great adventure Bible from Ascension.
0:36.5	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. And why not? Why not wait and say, you know what? Day 292, that was my day. I didn't want to do it right away. And I also didn't want to do it like halfway through. But on day 292,
0:54.4	kind of a palindrome of a number, that's the day I wanted to subscribe. As I said, it is day
1:01.0	292. We're reading one Maccabees 11, more palindromes, or at least a lot of ones. And Syrac 28 and
1:07.8	29, Proverbs 23 verses 9 through 12.
1:12.6	The first book of Maccabees, chapter 11, Ptolemy invades Syria.
1:17.6	Then the king of Egypt gathered great forces like the sand by the seashore and many ships,
1:22.0	and he tried to get possession of Alexander's kingdom by trickery and added to his own kingdom.
1:26.7	He set out for Syria with peaceable
1:28.3	words, and the people of the cities opened their gates to him and went to meet him, for Alexander
1:33.0	the king had commanded them to meet him since he was Alexander's father-in-law. But when Ptolemy
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