Day 315: The Virtue of Mercy (2025)

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🗓️ 11 November 2025

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Summary

In light of a series of miracles in our readings for today, Fr. Mike focuses on our Lord’s compassion and our call to be merciful, as he is. He emphasizes the beauty of God’s mercy and his offering of it despite our unworthiness. He also strikes a balance between the goodness of humanity as God’s creation and our brokenness due to original sin. Today’s readings are Luke 6-8 and Proverbs 26:1-3.

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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,
0:07.3	where we encounter God's voice and live life through the lens of scripture.
0:10.2	The Bible in a year podcast is brought to you by Ascension.
0:13.1	Using the Great Adventure Bible timeline, we'll read all the way from Genesis to Revelation,
0:16.2	discovering how the story of salvation unfolds and how we fit into that story today.
0:20.7	It is day 315. Oh my gosh. What a great gift. We're reading Luke chapter 6, 7, and 8. We're also reading Proverbs chapter 26 versus 1 through 3. As always, the Bible translation I'm reading from is the revised 10th 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 a year. You can also subscribe to this podcast, but clicking on daily, oh, clicking on subscribes. Subscribes. You can subscribe to this podcast. It's a wonderful thing. You don't have to do it. Do what you want. Anyways, we're reading Luke chapter 6, 7, and 8. It's day 315,
0:55.5	and we're reading Proverbs chapter 26 versus 1 through 3.
1:01.6	The Gospel according to Luke, chapter 6, a teaching about the Sabbath. On a Sabbath, while he was
1:08.3	going through the grain fields, his disciples plucked and ate some heads of grain, rubbing them in their hands.
1:13.7	But some of the Pharisees said, Why are you doing what is not lawful to do on the Sabbath?
1:18.3	And Jesus answered, Have you not read what David did when he was hungry?
1:22.2	He and those who were with him, how he entered the house of God and took and ate the showbread which it is not lawful for any
1:27.9	but the priests to eat and also gave it to those with him. And he said to them, the son of man is lord
1:34.4	of the Sabbath. The man with a withered hand. On another Sabbath when he entered the synagogue and
1:40.6	taught, a man was there whose right hand was withered, and the scribes and the
1:44.5	Pharisees watched him to see whether he would heal on the Sabbath so that they might find an
1:48.5	accusation against him. But he knew their thoughts, and he said to the man who had the withered hand,
1:54.1	come and stand here. And he rose and stood there. And Jesus said to them, I ask you, is it lawful
2:00.7	on the Sabbath to do good or to do harm,
2:03.2	to save life, or to destroy it? And he looked around on them all and said to him,
2:08.6	stretch out your hand. And he did so, and his hand was restored. But they were filled with fury
2:14.1	and disgust with one another what they might do to Jesus.
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