Day 302: The Pursuit of Wisdom (2025)
The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz)
Ascension
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🗓️ 29 October 2025
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
Fr. Mike concludes the book of Sirach today and encourages us to continue the pursuit of wisdom. In our reading of 2 Maccabees, we see again the pillage of the Temple and we are re- introduced to Judas Maccabeus. Lastly, in Proverbs Fr. Mike encourages us to resist the temptation to rejoice when our enemies fall. Today’s readings are 2 Maccabees 5, Sirach 50-51, and Proverbs 24:17-20.
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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, |
| 0:07.1 | where we encounter God's voice and live life through the lens of scripture. |
| 0:10.0 | The Bible in a year podcast is brought to you by Ascension. |
| 0:12.8 | Using the Great Adventure Bible timeline, we'll read all the way from Genesis into Revelation, |
| 0:16.5 | discovering how the story of salvation unfolds and how we fit into that story today. |
| 0:20.0 | It is day 302. We're reading second book of the Maccabees chapter 5. Also, Syrac 50 and 51, the conclusion, the long-awaited conclusion of the book of Syrac, as well as Proverbs chapter 24 versus 17 through 20. 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 the year. You can also subscribe to this podcast, but click it on and subscribe and receiving daily episodes and daily updates. It is day 302. I have a sense. Gosh, whenever I do the intro, it's kind of like a radio voice, right? And then |
| 0:56.8 | we get like subtle into normal voice. But here it is, day 302, and we're reading second Maccabees |
| 1:01.7 | chapter 5, Syrac 50 and 51, Proverbs chapter 24 versus 17 through 20. |
| 1:08.6 | The second book of the Maccabees, chapter 5. |
| 1:12.9 | Jason tries to regain control. |
| 1:18.9 | About this time, Antiochus made his second invasion of Egypt, and it happened that over all the city for almost 40 days, there appeared golden-clad horsemen charging through the |
| 1:23.5 | air in companies fully armed with lances and drawn swords. |
| 1:28.9 | Troops of horsemen drawn up, |
| 1:33.7 | attacks and counterattacks made on this side and on that, brandishing of shields, massing of spears, hurling of missiles, the flash of golden trappings, and armor of all sorts. Therefore, |
| 1:40.2 | all men prayed that the apparition might prove to have been a good omen. |
| 1:50.3 | When a false rumor arose that Antigas was dead, Jason took no less than a thousand men and suddenly made an assault upon the city. When the troops upon the wall had been forced back and at last the |
| 1:55.6 | city was being taken, Manilaus took refuge in the citadel. But Jason kept relentlessly slaughtering his fellow citizens, |
| 2:02.7 | not realizing that success at the cost of one's kindred |
| 2:05.3 | is the greatest misfortune, |
| 2:07.4 | but imagining that he was setting up trophies of victory over enemies |
| 2:10.7 | and not over fellow countrymen. |
| 2:12.9 | He did not gain control of the government, however, |
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