Day 209: God Comforts His People - The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz)

[@mapinoita279]

God bless you Fr. Mike!😊

[@rajinifrancis5958]

As a Catholic who has listened to the reading every Sunday throughout my life and as a person who has tried to read through the Bible many times not very successfully I find this podcast and Fr. Mike's explanation very inspiring and clarifying many sections I couldn't understand earlier when I tried to read on my own. Thank you Fr. Mike and all the others involved in bringing this message to our homes. Thank you.

[@lindacosgrove7918]

That is precisely why we need the Church for proper interpretation- Protestism doesn’t work. I found doing BIAY has helped me to cope as to the world we live in at this time. God is in control, Peace and stay salty.

[@magdaleneazariah7330]

Same here. I never understood the Bible when I did so by myself but I thank God for Fr. Mike and his reading of the Bible podcast and to his explanation which is so well told and explained which makes the Bible an easy reading one, and especially me would love to read it again and again to get every explanation and message of our Lord God. Thank you Jesus. Thank you Fr.Mike. God Bless you and your Ministry. My prayers always for you. Praise the Lord for you.🙏

[@jungarcia749]

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[@CieloDominguez-g5c]

Me too. No matter how much I attended the three years class from my church bible class. Father Mike explanation and interpretation is my best ever🙏🙏🙏 Thanks Father Mike.

[@joseguzman1051]

AMEN 🙏.

[@laurieharris1247]

I’m catching up, and day 209 was on 7/28/24 and that day was my 66th birthday - and today was just so special because Isaiah chapter 40 is sung in Handel’s Messiah, a beautiful musical oratorio that I have sung many times with different choruses in my life- “Comfort ye, my people” and “He Shall Feed His Flock” were two of my favorites as well as . Praying for you all and for you Fr Mike and the staff of Ascension press and everyone here on the BIY 😊🙏🎶❤️ If you get a chance, listen to Handel’s Messiah a piece he composed in 24 days only by the grace of God.

[@sugandhasingh8510]

Praying for everyone journeying BIAY presently and in future Date- 27 July 2024

[@scottydwarica688]

Father Mike i pray everyday to the Heavenly Father in Jesus name to keep you healthy to speak Gods word to help me learn more and do Gods will with all my heart 🙏🩸👑

[@annmarieedwards8816]

I love you Lord ❤

[@debbie4503]

Isaiah 40:31 has been a favorite verse of mine since I was a child. I'm in my 60's now and it still gives me comfort.

[@christinawhite9256]

🙏

[@deoditavaz7367]

Thank you Fr Mike - you explained so well - the vision especially! The four living creatures all the Four Gospel writers - Eagle ( John) Ox (Luke) Lion ( Mark) Man (Matthew).

[@naomiwelch6715]

I appreciate Ezekiel's scripture as I've always wanted to share more with my middle school students how the gospel writers received their titles of man, ox, eagle, and lion. Love this explanation! Thank you, Fr. Mike!

[@ywaiming]

I just discovered that the 4 faces of the creatures have an allusion to the gospel writers. Never knew about this until today. Thanks, Fr Mike.

[@cy7025]

In 1981 to went see 'Chariots of Fire' at a local theater. I was quite young at that time and did not truly understand the impact of the story. After your explanation, Father, I am going to watch it again. I really love how you explain the Bible, you bring it all together and make it easier to understand. Without Bible in a Year I would be completely lost!!

[@JayRedding12_12]

This was really cool because I made the cover to my bible, and I love the bible covers that have the icon of Christ in the middle and icons of the four Gospel writers in the four corners depicted at each of the creatures in Ezekiel chaper one. So it was cool to get a fuller explanation of this image on the cover of my bible.

[@rm-paradise]

Father, may everything that I do this day, whether it be full of joy or pain, whether it be full of love or of grief, I ask that everything I go through today be offered to you just like Jesus offered everything to you. It is in his name we pray. Amen. 7/27/2024

[@WashingtonDC99]

Day 209 _ Saturday July 27th, 2024 Today's readings are Isaiah 39-40, Ezekiel 1, and Proverbs 11:29​-31.

[@cherylawitherell1800]

Fr Mike, you are a gift

[@irenedsouza2073]

Thank you Fr. Mike for this BIAY you brought to me. GOD HAS BLESSED YOU TO BE A BLESSING TO THE WORLD

[@Sydroo1969]

Isaiah 40:8 The grass is withered, and the flower is fallen: but the word of our Lord endureth for ever. Has always been one of my favorite bible verses since I was young. I think I heard it somewhere as a youngster. Always remembered that verse. Probably some protestant preacher when I went to church occasionally. As a convert to Catholicism. I still love that verse.

[@jldisme]

I loved when that verse was in Chariots of Fire!

[@attracta2122]

What I have learnt so far is so huge that it has left me speechless. Thank you so much Fr Mike and Ascension Press.

[@phyllisavesing5029]

Thank you For. Mike for doing Bible in a year. After I come home from church,I have gotten into the habit of sitting down with bible in a year podcast to listen and I have learned so much. God Bless.

[@jldisme]

Lord Jesus, I humbly pray for myself, Father Mike, & all the people participating in the Bible-in-Year podcast. May your word take deep root in our hearts & transform our ways of thinking, discerning, and acting. May your grace open our ears to hear & understand, revere & treasure both the Old & the New Testaments which God has prepared for all who desire to enter his kingdom. Send us your Holy Spirit to give us the Spirit of Knowledge, that we may know God and know ourselves. Give us the grace to approach the Word of God with meekness & humility, & with an eagerness to do everything God desires. Help us to be diligent students & faithful disciples of your Word. May our hearts never grow dull & may our ears never tire of listening to your voice. Amen.

[@brianmelville520]

27JUL2024. Day 209. I show to the enemy, without pride, all that I pocess, and I fear not, for I will always first, trust in the Lord. Amen

[@fashionforwardmom8008]

Lord, You are sovereign. You always remain faithful. Thank you for your Word. For again, foreshadowing the coming of Jesus by going out with your people into Babylonian exile. You are never far from us. You give strength to the weary. Peace and joy come from you alone. Mend our broken hearts. May we never get too comfortable in your goodness, but proactively work towards leading future generations well. 🙏🏻

[@MrDarshD]

Learned a lot about God and the Bible! *_Love the connection between Isaiah Ch. 40 and “Chariots of Fire” movie about Eric Liddell who ran 400 meter dash / yards . GOD gives strength to those who faint and who wait on Him. Youth doesn't guarantee strength but God does. *_ An important reminder that oftentimes, God changes our life when we are about to begin something. Like how Ezekiel was exiled and taken away from God's place of worship to a place where there was no physical evidence of God but God was always with him. *_ I loved knowing that Matthew stands for Man (mentioning the genealogy of Man from Adam to Jesus), Mark stands for lion (declaring Jesus as the Lion of Judah), Luke is an ox (talks about sacrifices and rites, the priestly nature of Jesus), John is an eagle (high and lofty beginning of the Gospel). Thank you, Fr. Mike and Team Ascension! God bless you and the fellow listeners

[@roknrone]

Day 209..kinda late to the BIY party..prayers for Father Mike and all the BIY family 🙏❤

[@annette4660]

Father Mike, thank you so much for this series. I've just started, but I'm watching about three a day, so I might even catch up! Your dramatic readings of scripture are so good, they bring the Bible to life for me. Your commentary opens the meaning up with such wisdom and insight, so that I may derive deep and lasting benefit from it. Truly a Godsend!

[@debbiegraham5585]

Hi Fr Mike

[@michalbomb]

Heard these words when I was feeling down and lonely. It came just when I needed it. Thank You Lord.

[@margaretferrara1008]

Praise God who strengthens me.

[@RallyTheTally]

Pretty profile picture.

[@cindyanderson4306]

Isaiah 40 is one of my favorites. I don't know now where I learned this song, "Ezekiel saw two wheels a rolling way in the middle of the air, one wheel ran by faith and the other ran by the Grace of God ".

[@deoditavaz7367]

Fr Mike - you are such a lovely gift to us ! God bless you for explaining the Scriptures to us so well .. I’m enjoying .. so far 210 days ! Wow! Praying for you and your team 🙏

[@17CW68fNv]

So interesting. Praying for you, Fr Mike, and all on BIY and CIY. God Bless. Claire.

[@ruthortega5822]

The Lord is the everlasting God. So very true. He will always take care of us. Thank you for explaining the 4 living creatures. I was lost there for a while, but as usual, you cleared everything up.

[@lawrencegatti8283]

🙏🏻🙏🏻

[@golgibella]

I want the kind of fire that makes a willing martyr whether white or red. I want that!!!

[@LauraTheMusician]

If any of you are into choral music, I recommend checking out "Be Still" by Timothy Jon Tharaldson. It's a wonderful setting of Isaiah 40 - I sang it 4 years ago and it still sticks with me. When Father Mike read the passage at the end the music immediately came back into my head.

[@jeaninebyrnes9429]

Be Still is lovely

[@charmiemael460]

Tnx Fr.Mike 👍🤗💐🙏➕📿🛐🔥📖🧡🕊🧡

[@theresadavis1834]

Thank you Father Mike for sharing the bible with all of us. It is a blessing to understand the bible. It allows us to grow closer to our God. Praying for Father Mike and anyone who is in need of prayers. Praying for all those who have no one to pray for them, may God bless them.

[@rrose4841]

Thank you. I've never understood the 4 faces, so thank you for this insight.

[@ducphan8228]

🙏🙏🙏

[@chavelasalas9151]

Praise you lord Jesus Christ ❤❤❤prayers for me Father thank you God Amen 🙏 prayers Father Mike Amen 🙏

[@munchlax9715]

Amen

[@dianefrank3688]

Praying for all of BIY and Fr. Mike 🙏🙏🙏

[@rmeineke007]

Father Mike I just wanted to let you know I appreciate your persistence in encouraging people to subscribe and download the reading plan, which has been a tremendous help. Thank for everything and God bless.

[@margaretferrara1008]

209 pray for us.

[@run4cmt]

I recognize the words of Isaiah from Handel's Messiah. Such beautiful words.

[@christinetuthill8249]

These readings from Isaiah are reminiscent of the Book of Job

[@janetthetonia7922]

Praying for you Father Mike and everyone on this journey Amen 🙏

[@barbarajosephs3399]

Thank you Father Mike🙏

[@rm-vf7fy]

Carrying Dawn M's mantle please pray for the holy souls in purgatory, they need our prayers. Praying for all, thank you for your prayers. 7/28/2022

[@valentinabiebie]

Beautiful! 🤩

[@wreloise1]

Dear Lord strengthen, comfort, and keep us at peace. Father, son, and Holy Spirit ❤️‍🩹🙏🏾

[@karenrich9092]

I saw the film Chariots of Fire, but I didn't realize all of this was happening. Now I have to watch it again and also read Isaiah 40.

[@robertanteau6613]

You're late, you had me worried ..... God Bless you Ft. Mike! 🙏🏻

[@chizobamuoneke8325]

Lol. Though I was just me. Was worried too.

[@robertanteau6613]

@@chizobamuoneke8325 😊

[@dawnmireles2912]

August 7, 2023 Round Two If you ever feel alone or need guidance consider Saint Faustina’s Diary and EWTN Mother Angelica’s Classics. Oh my goodness so much life guidance in conjunction with Father Mike’s Bible and Catechism in a Year!

[@elizabethhunter4525]

I heard it slightly differently about the four faces, but both sound valid to be fair. Matthew = Lion portrays Jesus as King lineage from Abraham, valid kingship Mark = Ox portrays Jesus as servant Luke = man lineage from Adam John = Eagle portrays Jesus as God, no genealogy

[@rc3088]

Thank you, to everyone 🙏 that make BIAY possible.

[@robertl6770]

Totally wrecked my schedule. Better late than never. Thanks father Mike

[@roknrone]

I hear you, just keep showing up. Prayers for you 🙏..

[@WashingtonDC99]

Thank you Father Mike. God bless you.

[@butterflyinnyc]

Thank You, Fr Mike! ✨🌞🙏🏼❤️✨

[@wreloise1]

Comfort of our Lord: “If I ascend to heaven, thou art there! If I make my bed in Sheol, thou art there! If I take the wings of the morning and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea, even there thy hand shall lead me, and thy right hand shall hold me.” ‭‭Psalms‬ ‭139:8-10‬ ‭RSV-CI‬‬

[@chavelasalas9151]

Praise You Lord Jesus Christ❤❤❤❤ Elsa Frozen pray for us thank you prayers father Mike amen

[@marysaladino8007]

Amen 🙏Amen🙏Amen🙏✝️🙏

[@Goodnews499]

Thank you 🙏 Fr Mike and God bless you ..

[@bridgettbuchanan591]

Good morning 🌻🌄 the 'Body of Christ ✝️'.'. ....

[@adelaidawallaert287]

I’m praying for you Fr Mike Schmitz always 🙏♥️

[@patskonieczny3628]

Finally I was able to subscribe. Praise to God for your podcast, thank you.

[@gloriaruiz2332]

Wow so deep!.🙏🏻

[@investinyourself8045]

Amen 🙏

[@prolifevoter7356]

Thank you for your explanation about the four creatures ! 🙏

[@dougmoore5252]

Me too!

[@billgroel4463]

thank you father mike God Bless 🙏

[@giarose6493]

Blessings ☘️❤️💯🙏🌹

[@dileakadias4727]

Rev father thank you God bless

[@aca.2877]

Shalom, Fr. MIKE! 🙂

[@fastmclaren71]

It's amazing how much detail is in the bible. Before twitter and social media. I'm a bit suspicious now.

[@lwhitaker6]

Father Mike explains truths so beautifully. I also like the Level 2 Catechesis of the Good Shepherd program which goes over the Prophecy of the Valley and Mountains, Isaiah 40. We ponder what the obstacles or mountains I have placed in my way to Jesus are. Maybe it is obstacles that we place in our way so that we can’t be near God and we have to smooth out way so that we can help others prepare. We also ponder the ending of the prophecy that sounds like Parousia and what that will be like.

[@konrad634]

God bless

[@chizobamuoneke8325]

Thank you Father. I was worried too.

[@RallyTheTally]

Bibically accriaute angels part lol.

[@MargaretUIUC]

The beginning of Ezekiel, where God goes into exile with his people, reminded me of this news story: "The judge knew that Sgt. Joseph Serna had been through a lot. The former Special Forces soldier did four combat tours in Afghanistan over a nearly two-decades-long career with the U.S. Army. Through those years, the Fayetteville Observer reported, Serna was almost killed three times: once, by a roadside bomb, then again by a suicide bomber. During a tour in 2008, Serna and three other soldiers were driving down a narrow dirt road in Kandahar when their armored truck toppled into a canal, the Associated Press reported. As water filled the vehicle, Serna struggled to escape. It was his fellow soldier, Sgt. James Treber, who saved him. “I felt a hand come down and unfasten my seat belt and release my body armor,” Serna recalled to the AP. “Sgt. Treber picked me up and moved me to a small pocket of air. He knew there was not enough room for both of us to breathe so he went under water to find another pocket of air.” Treber died from the accident, but Serna survived. He was the only one who did. While Serna’s years in combat earned him three Purple Hearts and other military accolades, like many combat vets, he’s been unable to leave the battlefield behind him. Since returning to the U.S., the decorated Green Beret has suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder, WTVD reported, and been charged with driving under the influence. He entered the veteran’s treatment court program in Cumberland County, N.C., over which state District Court Judge Lou Olivera presides. Serna has fought to stay sober, appearing before Olivera 25 times to have his progress reviewed. He confessed to Olivera that he lied about a recent urine test last week, according to WRAL. In response, Olivera sentenced Serna to one day in jail. The judge drove Serna to the jail in a neighboring county. “When Joe first came to turn himself in, he was trembling,” Olivera told the Fayetteville Observer. “I decided that I’d spend the night serving with him.” “Where are we going, judge?” Serna asked, the Observer’s Bill Kirby Jr., reported Wednesday. “We’re going to turn ourselves in,” the judge said. As Serna sat down on the cot in his cell, WRAL reported, he heard the door rattle open again and saw Olivera standing before him. Olivera sat down beside him. Someone came and locked the door. “This was a one-man cell so we sat on the bunk and I said, ‘You are here for the entire time with me?'” Serna told WTVD. “He said, ‘Yeah that’s what I am doing.'” A Gulf War veteran himself, Olivera was concerned that leaving Serna in isolation for a night would trigger his PTSD. The two passed the time trading stories of their experiences in the military. Serna told WRAL: “It was more of a father-son conversation. It was personal.” “They have worn the uniform and we know they can be contributing members of society,” Olivera said. “We just want to get them back there.” The incident, which occurred April 13, was reported Thursday in the Observer under the headline: “Judge’s unbelievable compassion for a veteran.”

[@elizabethcronin3074]

What compassion by that Judge! Thank you for sharing!

[@joanbeauregard9338]

This story is so moving. This is who God created us to be.the reflection of His great love for us, also. Thank you!

[@golgibella]

God, You're in exile with me,? ✨✨😮✨✨

[@giarose6493]

Done ☑️

[@kattydeleo9035]

🙏🙏🙏🤗❤️

[@davescave7267]

Have you had a chance to watch The Chosen?

[@dawnmireles2912]

August 7, 2023 Round Two Do you have 45 seconds to pray for Souls in Purgatory with me? According to tradition, St. Gertrude the Great was told by Our Lord that each time she piously recited the following prayer, it would release 1,000 souls (or a vast number) from their suffering in purgatory: The Prayer of St. Gertrude Eternal Father, I offer Thee the Most Precious Blood of Thy Divine Son, Jesus, in union with the masses said throughout the world today, for all the holy souls in purgatory, for sinners everywhere, for sinners in the universal church, those in my own home and within my family.
Amen. If you ever feel alone or need guidance consider Saint Faustina’s Diary and EWTN Mother Angelica’s Classics. Oh my goodness so much life guidance in conjunction with Father Mike’s Bible and Catechism in a Year!

[@rosalindaworsham9322]

Father Mike, just letting you know that Father Mark Goring ( one of my favorite you tuber Priest , along with the Eloquent ,Bishop Barron ) asked his viewers today to list our top 10 favorite Catholic you tubers and I placed you as one of my top 5 ( couldn't come up with 10 ).Keep up the GREAT Shepherd work that you're doing.

[@boom-bm1kl]

Hopefully Father Chris Alar was among the top 5!

[@rosalindaworsham9322]

@@boom-bm1kl Never heard of him before till now. Will search him here on you tube.Thank you.

[@boom-bm1kl]

@@rosalindaworsham9322 type in explaining the faith divine mercy. He's part of the divine mercy chapel out of Massachusetts. The KZbin channel is Divine Mercy. Watch all the explaining the faith talks, they go by fast and are phenomenal!!

[@rosalindaworsham9322]

@@boom-bm1kl I just watched one of the video titled .... ".The Truth about Prophecy for Today and for the End of times ( By Father Chris Alar )" He is AWEmazing !! He was very direct to call out Prosperity doctrine as False Doctrine.I LOVE Priests who tells the TRUTH and doesn't care whether they step on their toes or not.I love his direct and bold approach and just tell the TRUTH. Thank you for mentioning his name.

[@rosalindaworsham9322]

@@boom-bm1kl I will. Thank you.

[@kathyesargent9088]

❤️❤️❤️🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

[@flucheaux]

I had read somewhere that the 4 likenesses possibly referenced the standards, or banners, of 4 tribes of Israel. Judah = Lion, Reuben = man, Ephraim = ox, Dan = eagle.

[@eduardohoover2127]

In Judaism it's a fact that only the privileged men of at least 30 years of age could read Ezekiel. Is this why Jesus didn't start His ministry until He was 30?

[@Manyanababy]

🙏🏽

[@marianmilne6009]

Praying for you and everyone here. Thank you and God bless🙏❤️🙏

[@MoonlightNothing]

I hope all is well Fr. MIKE! 🕊 What Happened? Aren't we on day 210?

[@rosalindaworsham9322]

I'm new .so, what is this number about? Like 209, is that number of days Father Mike started reading the bible from Genesis or number of days since the beginning he reads the bible?

[@lorrainecacho2509]

@@rosalindaworsham9322 Hi, it's the latter. We aim to read the Bible from Genesis to Revelation in 365 days. Hope this helps! :)

[@rosalindaworsham9322]

@@lorrainecacho2509 Thank you for responding to my curiousity.:)

[@rosalindaworsham9322]

@@lorrainecacho2509 So, just curious, is number 212 coming today? I have no idea how father Mike does his biblical reading. Does he do it daily? I love how he reads the bible, clear and so profoundly from the heart. He reads and meant them. He's a great reader/narrator/story-teller.

[@lorrainecacho2509]

@@rosalindaworsham9322 btw, yes. Today's Day 212. 🙂

[@QueenyKay]

Day 209: July 27, 2022. ✅

[@berryberry2508]

Israel's Incomparable God. Isaiah 40 40 : 21 - Do you not know ? Were you not told long ago ? Have you not heard how the world began ? It was the one who sits on his throne , above the earth and beyond the sky . 40 : 27 - Israel, why do you complain that the Lord doesn't know your troubles , or care if you suffer injustice ? 40 : 28 - Don't you know ? Haven' t you heard ? The Lord is the Everlasting God ; he created all the world . He never grows tired or weary . No one understands his thoughts . 40 : 29 - He strengthens those who are weak and tired . 40 : 31 - Those who trust in the Lord for help will find their strength renewed . They will rise on wings like eagles ; they will run and not get weary ; they will walk and not grow weak . 📖

[@christiandpaul631]

Hezekiah maybe thought by showing the Babylonians all of his Armory that he would make them afraid to attack. They would say that Hezekiah has so much we would not be able to win a war over him but at he same time he gave way all of his secrets.

[@robertl6770]

Great blunder in military history. I like your insight.

[@cbtherepetitiveparthelpsme957]

Pride comes before the fall.

[@admg1340]

Day 209, 3/11/22

[@jojo_mcelwee6591]

❤️ 09/08/2022