Day 307: Courage in Battle (2025)
The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz)
Ascension
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🗓️ 3 November 2025
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
Today, Fr. Mike discusses the confidence that faith in God can provide as we fight the battles of our lives. He also engages with the riddles found in Wisdom 10 and points out that we can now not only understand the characters, stories, and allusions of Scripture, but can recognize the fingerprints of God in the world around us and better understand the main character of Scripture: God. Today’s readings are 2 Maccabees 10, Wisdom 9-10, and Proverbs 25:4-7.
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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, |
| 0:07.3 | where we encounter God's voice and live life through the lens of scripture. |
| 0:10.3 | The Bible in a year podcast is brought to you by Ascension. |
| 0:12.7 | Using the Great Adventure Bible timeline, we'll read all the way from Genesis to Revelation, |
| 0:16.3 | discovering how the story of salvation unfolds and how we fit into that story today. |
| 0:19.5 | It is a 30 3007 we're reading |
| 0:21.6 | mesakamacabes chapter 10 wisdom chapters 9 and 10 in proverbs chapter 25 verses 4 through 7 as always |
| 0:27.7 | the bible translation i'm reading from is the revised standard version of the second catholic edition |
| 0:31.6 | i'm using the great adventure bible from ascension if you want to download your own bible in a |
| 0:34.9 | year reading plan you can visit ascensionpress.com slash bible in a year. You can also subscribe to this podcast, but clicking on subscribing, receiving daily episodes. Also a little shout out to all of those who don't merely listen, but also read along on YouTube because I think you can subscribe to that too. Oh, man. Subscriptions all over the place. Subscriptions abound on day 307 as we're reading second |
| 0:56.5 | Maccabees chapter 10, wisdom chapter 9 and 10, and Proverbs chapter 25 verses 4 through 7. |
| 1:04.6 | The second book of the Maccabees chapter 10, the purification of the temple. Now Macccabias and his followers, the Lord leading them on, |
| 1:12.8 | recovered the temple and the city, and they tore down the altars which had been built in the |
| 1:16.6 | public square by the foreigners, and also destroyed the sacred precincts. They purified the sanctuary |
| 1:21.8 | and made another altar of sacrifice. Then, striking fire out of Flint, they offered sacrifices after a lapse of two years, |
| 1:29.2 | and they burned incense and lighted lamps and set out the bread of the presents. And when they had done |
| 1:34.3 | this, they fell prostrate and begged the Lord that they might never again fall into such misfortunes, |
| 1:40.4 | but that if they should ever sin, they might be disciplined by him with forbearance and not be |
| 1:45.1 | handed over to blasphemous and barbarous nations. It happened that on the same day on which the |
| 1:50.2 | sanctuary had been profaned by the foreigners, the purification of the sanctuary took place, |
| 1:54.6 | that is, on the 25th day of the same month, which was Chislev. And they celebrated it for eight |
| 2:00.2 | days with rejoicing in the manner |
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