Day 301: Rising Again (2025)
The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz)
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🗓️ 28 October 2025
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Summary
As we begin to wrap up the Old Testament, Fr. Mike reflects on our reading from Sirach and what we have already learned on this journey through the Bible. He emphasizes that Scripture encourages us to rise again from our sin and return to God, because our God always picks us up again with his mercy. Today’s readings are 2 Maccabees 4, Sirach 47-49, and Proverbs 24:13-16.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, my name's Father Mike Schmitz, and you're listening to the Bible in a year podcast, where we |
| 0:07.7 | encounter God's voice and live life through the lens of scripture. The Bible in a year podcast is |
| 0:11.9 | brought to you by Ascension. Using the Great Adventure Bible timeline, we'll read all the way from |
| 0:15.4 | Genesis to Revelation, discovering how the story of salvation unfolds and how we fit into that story |
| 0:20.1 | today. It is day 301. We're reading from the second book of Maccabees, chapter 4, as well as Syrac 47, 48, and 49, as well as Proverbs chapter 24 verses 13 through 16. As always, the Bible translation I'm reading from is the revised standard version, the 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. |
| 0:40.8 | You can also subscribe to this podcast and receive daily episodes and daily updates. |
| 0:45.7 | Little known fact that you can do that. It is day 301, reading Second Maccabees chapter 4, |
| 0:51.3 | Syrac 47, 48, and 49, and Proverbs chapter 24 verses 13 through 16. |
| 0:58.6 | The second book of the Maccabees, Chapter 4. Simon accuses Onius. The previously mentioned to Simon, |
| 1:05.6 | who had informed about the money against his own country, slandered Onius, saying that it was he who |
| 1:10.2 | had incited Heliodorus |
| 1:11.2 | and had been the real cause of the misfortune. He dared to designate as a plodder against the |
| 1:16.4 | government, the man who was the benefactor of the city, the protector of his fellow countrymen, |
| 1:20.8 | and a zealot for the laws. When his hatred progressed to such a degree that even murders |
| 1:25.4 | were committed by one of Simon's approved agents, |
| 1:28.1 | Onius recognized that the rivalry was serious, and that Apollonius, the son of Menaceus, the governor |
| 1:33.0 | of Kuales, Syria, and Phoenicia, was intensifying the malice of Simon. So he betook himself to the |
| 1:38.6 | king, not accusing his fellow citizens, but having in view the welfare, both public and private, |
| 1:43.4 | of all the people. |
| 1:48.5 | For he saw that without the king's attention, public affairs could not again reach a peaceful settlement, and that Simon would not stop his folly. |
| 1:53.0 | Jason's reforms |
| 1:53.8 | When Seleucus died, and Antiochus was called Epiphanes, succeeding to the kingdom, |
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