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Hi, my name is Father Mike Schmits, and you're listening to the Bible in a year podcast, where we encounter God's voice and live life through the lens of scripture. The Bible in a year podcast is brought to you by Ascension. Using the Great Adventure Bible timeline, we'll read all the way from Genesis to Revelation, discovering how the story of salvation unfolds and how we fit into that story today. It is day one of the church, and it's day 32 and 22. We're reading Acts of the Apostles chapter one. We're reading the letters of St. Paul to the Romans chapter one, as well as Proverbs 26 versus 24 through 26. 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 a year because then you would

know that today's day 32 and we're reading Acts 1, Romans 1, Proverbs 26. You can also subscribe to

this podcast if you're so inclined to do this on the home stretch because that's kind of where we are.

This is kind of the beginning of the home stretch. I don't know. I don't want to talk about it as if it's over yet because we still have a bunch of days left. You've done so well. By the way, this might not be day 322 in a row for you, which is phenomenal. That's not a problem. That's not even a beginning of a problem. It's only an imaginary

problem. When people say that, oh, I need to be right on top of things every day. I mean, if you

are doing that, great job. Well done. But if you haven't done that, that is an imaginary problem.

That's not even a real thing. You showed up today and that's all you need to do. On day 32,

reading Acts chapter 1, Romans chapter 1,

Proverbs 26 versus 24 through 26. The Acts of the Apostles, Chapter 1. The promise of the Holy Spirit.

In the first book, Otheophilus, I have dealt with all that Jesus began to do and teach

until the day when he was taken up after he had given

commandment through the Holy Spirit to the apostles whom he had chosen. To them he presented himself alive

after his passion by many proofs, appearing to them during 40 days and speaking of the kingdom of God.

And while staying with them, he charged them not to depart from Jerusalem, but to wait for the

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