Day 306: Wisdom Is Beautiful (2025)

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🗓️ 2 November 2025

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Summary

Fr. Mike draws our attention to the descriptions of wisdom found in our readings for today and reflects on the beauty of wisdom’s feminine nature. He also discusses the death of Antiochus Epiphanes and offers two perspectives on reconciling God’s role in suffering. Today’s readings are from 2 Maccabees 9, Wisdom 7-8, and Proverbs 25:1-3.

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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 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
0:15.7	Genesis to Revelation, discovering how the story of salvation unfolds and how we fit into that story
0:20.3	today. It is day 306. We're reading second book of the Maccabees, Chapter 9, as well as Wisdom chapters 7 and 8. Proverbs chapter 25 verses 1 through 3. 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. You can also subscribe to this
0:40.5	podcast, but clicking on subscribe and receiving daily episodes and daily updates because today is
0:45.4	at day 306. You have 59 days. Gosh, math. Why is it so hard? It's not that hard. In State 306,
0:53.2	we're reading Second Maccabees
0:54.4	Chapter 9, Wisdom 7 and 8, Proverbs chapter 25, verses 1 through 3. The second book of the
1:01.7	Maccabees, Chapter 9, the last campaign of Antiochus Epiphanes. About that time as it happened,
1:08.5	Antiochus had retreated in disorder from the region of Persia,
1:11.7	for he had entered the city called Persepolis, and attempted to rob the temples and control
1:15.9	the city. Therefore, the people rushed to the rescue with arms, and Antiochus and his men were
1:20.6	defeated with the result that Antiochus was put to flight by the inhabitants and beat a shameful retreat.
1:27.0	While he was in Ekbatana, news came to him
1:29.3	of what happened to Nicanor and the forces of Timothy. Transported with rage, he conceived the idea
1:34.5	of turning upon the Jews the injury done by those who had put him to flight, so he ordered
1:38.7	his charioteer to drive without stopping until he completed the journey. But the judgment of heaven
1:43.6	rode with him,
1:44.5	for in his arrogance he said, when I get there, I will make Jerusalem a cemetery of Jews.
1:50.2	But the all-seeing Lord, the God of Israel, struck him an incurable and unseen blow. As soon as he
1:56.5	ceased speaking, he was seized with a pain in his bowels for which there was no relief and with sharp
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