Day 155 _ Today is Monday June 3rd, 2024 Deo gratias. 😇❤❤❤ Lord I am not worthy that You should enter under my roof but only say The Word and my soul shall be healed. Amen. ❤❤❤❤❤❤ June is dedicated to The Sacred Heart Of Jesus. ❤❤❤❤❤❤

June 3, 2024 Monday. Here I am.

Very thankful to learn about the sin of the Holy Spirit. I never knew that.

This is my 2nd year of the Bible in a Year and my first year traveling with Father Mike in the Catechism in the Year. Each day brings me so much joy. I often think what am I going to do next year when this is all done. Simply I’ll go through it again. Thank you Father Mike, for bringing such joy each evening when the house is quiet, to a weary soldier in Christ. God Bless you!

How amazing it is that the unclean spirits knew who Jesus was! Yet others had no idea what or who was in their presence? The Lord answer in the day of trouble..give victory to the King, O Lord; answer us when we call..prayers for Father Mike and all the BIY family 🙏❤

03JUN2024. Day 155. O Lord, my God, thank you for your teachings. Thank you for your mercy and grace. Amen

Even people from other religions knows Mary have no other children.🇹🇹

"Who then is this, that even wind and sea obey him?" So cool. No story is more epic than this.

Praise You Lord Jesus Christ❤❤❤ amen amen prayers for the month amen

It’s also in Jewish culture that if Jesus had had a blood brother he would NOT have given Mary to John. So by giving his mom to John proved he had NO blood brother’s. God bless. Praise Jesus and Mary always!!! Ps you hear Steve Ray mention this.

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, deciding, and acting. May your grace open our ears to hear & understand God's voice in the Scriptures that we may 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.

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Day 155..let's do this!

Fr. Mike I really love when you read the Bible. Your reading itself is so inspiring that I get so engrossed and involved. I'm so happy to be here and eagerly await the next one. May the Holy Spirit mightily anoint you to enlighten us, I pray. I also pray for your health and protection. Thank you Lord for the gift of Fr. Mike. 🙏

Thank you for this podcast. I have teens and we listen in the car on Google podcasts. We all have so many questions, which is the normal. Mystery of God of our universe is part of being a humble Christian. The biy reading and commentary sparks so many questions from both of my teens. Questions about mother Mary are very interesting. This reading sparks so much debate and discussion...I love seeing my family engaged in the word of God. ❤

Great explanation of the controversy about the brethren of Jesus. May 29, 2024. 🙏❤️

Excellent explanation of the sin against the Holy Spirit. Thank you for clearing that up. Also the brethren of Jesus, that is so often misinterpreted - sometimes deliberately by those who have ulterior motives. Great work, Father Mike.

So glad to hear the explanation regarding brothers. So many Catholics I know say that our Blessed Mother had other children an that's why Jesus calls his brothers. This is such a incorrect way of thinking. Thank you Father Mike.

Truly amazing. Thank you Fr Mike and Ascension Press, BIY and CIY are works of the Holy Spirit. I am truly having a magical learning transformative experience. God bless you 🙏🙏🙏🙏

Thank you, Father for this gift. I love the New Testament!

Thank you and God Bless you Father Mike. Jesus is Mighty.....Oh how I love Jesus Christ. Praying for you and all who follow you on this Journey through The Holy Bible.....

Father Mike thanks for sharing the bible with all of us. It is a true blessing that helps us to understand God's word and bring us closer to our God. Praying for Father Mike and all you are in need of prayers.

Thank you and praying for you, Fr Mike. God Bless.

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I have the Hallow app! Now I know why I have to keep hunting for you Fr. Mike! Well worth the hunt I must say!

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

This was so good. Thank you

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Sometimes this bible readings scare me especially about the devils but you did a very good job of reminding us about our baptism and its protection. Thank you from Canada.

Day 155 at 14:50 WOW! '... any sin we refuse to surrender to the Lord...' This hits home. What if you feel too guilty. embarrassed, and unworthy of forgiveness?

Just wanted to get on here today and say hello all, beautiful day in England, we have a bank holiday weekend because of our Queens 70 year reign !! Lots of celebrations going on, she has a deep faith and has done a magnificent job serving this country. I think it was in Fr Mikes homily last Sunday when he said he was proud to be an American, I love my country and the freedom we have. I am going to do something typically English and have strawberry jam and a cream scone with a pot of tea. When you think of Britain what do you see? When I think of the U.S I think of wide open spaces, cowboys (Butch Cassidy is one of my favourite films) hamburgers coffee and Disneyland. Hope your day is blessed today BIAY community, sorry none of this relates to the reading, but I just feel happy and wanted to share ! thanks.

God bless you, Fr. Mike! And the Ascension team!

Thank you father Mike.. praying for you all.. Gods bless ❤️🙏🏻, enjoy day 155

Just wanted to say hello to any fellow sojourner here on the road to reading the Bible this year. I'm not perfectly on track with the day that Fr Mike is on, but I'm just a little bit behind and wanted to encourage anyone doing the same at this same time as me. 🤍😀🛐🤍✝️😀

I must accept God’s mercy. God has forgiven me and I must forgive myself! Thank you Father Mike for this clarification! Please join me in praying for Souls in Purgatory. They need our help. Consider listening to the Marian Press of Saint Faustina’s Diary in a Year. It is also on KZfaq and each day’s reading is only about 7 minutes long. God Bless you all. I am praying for you, and I hope you will pray for me. Lord Jesus, have mercy on me, a sinner. April 14, 2022

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The imagery of the apostles out in a fishing boat in the middle of a storm, all of them gripped with fear as their boat takes on water while Jesus sleeps likes a baby, is extremely powerful.

Thank you Fr Mike for your excellent job in the explaining what does sinning against the Holy Spirit really mean. And also helping us to clarify that Jesus is the only son given birth by our Blessed Virgin Mary and that she remained a virgin throughout life. The brethren of Jesus is actually described by Adelphoi which can means relatives and not siblings as is so often misinterpreted by our Christian brethrens. Pray for you Father Mike and God bless

Fr. Mike you are awesome, thank you again. God bless. praying for you and all of us.

Thank You Lord For All The Blessings Amen JMJ

I have the Hallow app and I love it, but I like seeing the words. I wish they had them on the Hallow app. I have ADHD and reading along here and even having a Sunday Missile is so necessary for me during Mass.

I am so glad I know you Lord 🙏💖

Great explanation Father Mike especially the part about the Holy Spirit. Thank you for all your dedication to helping us understand the Bible.

Wow always thought James was his brother. So another lesson thank you Father ...God bless everyone..

Praise to the Lord, Son of the Father, Son of the Blessed Virgin.

God bless you father. Thank you 😇

I do pray for you Father Mike.

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Fr. Mike pray for me as I would pray for you please. I am the seed in the stone. I am drowned by my own stones that I carry to weigh me down and I the stones thrown perhaps. QQ: It is curious that people would be stoned, could it be a metaphor that the stones that people threw to stone people are the perceived sins that they were guilty for both from the crowd and within oneself. Either way... I need to release myself of these stones to be an effective ... mustard seed. For this I pray. God Bless you Fr. Mike.

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Thank you for your clarification with Mary. It makes complete sense. Great lesson as a whole as well.

Hello everyone! I somehow stumbled upon views today. I just wanted to highlight this. The First Day of Bible in a Year, there were 359K views. Now on Day 155, there's only 19K views. Now I know there are other media sites promoting this, but that seems like a massive drop doesn't it? I just wanted to give a huge shout out to people who are so dedicated to Jesus Christ who ended up finishing the Bible in a Year and for those who are still determined to finish it. Though people's actions, Jesus is not a fad, He is life! 🙏

Thank u so much for the clarification of Jesus' brothers. I have been given such a hard time from my siblings who cannot understand that Mary remained a Virgin throughout her life. I promise not to rub it in. I'm kidding but not about having clarification. Thank you again Fr Mike......Marilyn

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Blessings father and a special day of Pentecost thank you for everything you do for all of us

Lord, You are the holy one. You have power over sin and death. Thank you for showing us who you are and what holds importance to you. Give us the courage to speak life and ask hard questions when we see others’ priorities out of whack. You desire reconciliation with us and for nothing to stand in the way from you. Help us to search our hearts so that we never are far from you. 🙏🏻

Provisions of grace and mercy from Our Lord 🙏🏾❤️🙏🏾 Then he said to them, “The sabbath was made for man,* not man for the sabbath. Mark 2:27

Last feeling of the holy spirit actually means. Refusing To repent of your sins . Refusing go to confession

Thank you Fr. Mike for reminding us of what we learned as children in catechism. I realize that others had confused me but now, it is clear again on the sins against the Holy Spirit and our mother, Virgen Mary, always virgen!

Praying for our community and for you Father Mike.

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Thank you, Father Mike, and thank you Father Joe Glab for introducing BIY to me. 🙏🙏🙏

10:09 Father in heaven, we give you praise and thanks. And, we just honor you and love you for the gift of your son, Jesus, and for the gift of knowing, here is his teaching, here is heart, here is your heart because he is the word, the word of the Father. When we see him, we see you, Father in heaven, and so we thank you. Thank you for every one of these moments that we get, every one of these clips, I guess, images we have of Jesus here in Mark's Gospel. Thank you for Mark. Thank you for Peter who taught Mark this, and thank you for you, Lord God, because you are deserving of all thanks and all praise in everything. In Jesus's name, we pray, Amen. † [...] 12:42 [Important note for me (and for you maybe)] The next quick thing about the Sabbath that I just wanted to highlight is, I was reading a commentary by Dr Mary Healy. She's just phenomenal. I think I might have mentioned her yesterday and she just says, "all these healings, that happen on the Sabbath that Jesus keeps getting accused of, why wouldn't he just avoid the Sabbath? Why would he... It seems like he's almost intentionally doing this king of provocation on the Sabbath. He could have done it the day before, he could have done it the next day. Why on the Sabbath?". And she posits and puts forth the idea that actually Jesus is doing this intentionally. Because remember yesterday he said, "is the Sabbath made for man of man for the Sabbath?" That Jesus says, "I'm the Lord of the Sabbath." Basically Jesus is revealing his Lordship by exercising his Lordship on the Sabbath day. He's undoing the effects of sin and he's inaugurating a new creation by which humanity is restored to the fullness of life that God meant from the beginning. And that is what Dr. Healy had said that, "Jesus thereby fulfills the original purpose of the Sabbath, which is to bring humanity into communion with God." So that's why Jesus is spending this time healing and doing these works on the Sabbath. It's not just I'm breaking rules for breaking rules sake. It is, I'm revealing my very identity and I'm demonstrating the whole purpose of the Sabbath, which is to bring humanity into covenant, bring back into covenant, back into communion, with God himself. Which is just good to know.

I feel "seen".... for a bit of context, I play an online game where I have made Christian friends who are not Catholic but different denominations, respectively. A few nights ago we were sharing stories and talking about our Lord. In the midst of the conversation one of the ladies talked about Jesus growing up and naturally Mary came in to the story. She mentioned his "brothers" but obviously she didn't mean it as in "brethren", she meant it as his flesh brothers. Now, when I was going through RCIA months ago we had already learned that of course he did not have any flesh brothers. Sadly, I just sat there and said nothing even when I wanted to. I let myself be silent for the fear of "stirring something up", and also because I thought I am still not very well versed to discuss/defend what I am learning to be true. I had been feeling down about it and well like I said I feel seen and called out of course. I didn't speak the truth when it was needed and that dishonors the Lord. The fact that in this same video it was also discussed about our Lords "brothers". Wow.

Miraculously, as God has willed today's Mass preaching, the Priest said same thing about Mother Mary not having other children, and this being the reason She went to live with John because She didn't have other children! Perfectly true!

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Thank you father Mike for the wonderful explanation about our beautiful blessed mother. I never thought that she had other children but I too had heard that in the past, so thank you so so much for clarifying that for me. You teach me so much, God bless you.

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Mary was a virgin her whole life. When it talks about the brothers Jesus Christ in the same Hebrew word it can also mean cousins

June 4, 2023 Round Two Please pray for Souls in Purgatory. Go ahead, just take about 30 seconds to help save a soul that maybe is your family member or friend! Go forth and help save! Here is the prayer: (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. God would reply to St. Gertrude that He would use whatever was offered to Him for the faithful departed, according to His inclination to show pardon & mercy.

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What a fantastic way of teaching us about Apologetics in the first two lessons of the Gospel of Mark, I'll read more of the writings of Dr. Mary Healey. Thank you also for the explanation about the Brethren of Jesus, thais was great. Thank you and God bless.

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I would like to know what an appropriate honoring of the Sabbath actually looks like since every day and every work and relationship is supposed to be done as a worship of God.

If I'm correct Jesus also referred to the disciples as his brothers.

Gospel of Mark at 1:07

Day 155, 1/18/22

God is good thank you father mike for sharing the bible in a year Amen 🙏

I would like to hear Mark 4:12 explained more clearly, since it would seem to indicate that God doesn't want some people to understand his teaching because then they might be saved. That would be incomprehensible.

Sometime ago I had read an article in which the author speculated that perhaps the “brothers” and “sister” were Joseph’s children from a previous marriage. The translation error makes so much sense.

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Is my faith strong enough to “heal” those I pray for?

Fr. I love your teaching and I hope to listen to all 365 days. But today you said that we are ADOPTED sons and daughters of God. If God breathes life into us then we become true sons and daughters of God . No one is adopted!

01:00 - Mark Chapter 3 04:28 - Mark Chapter 4 09:10 - Psalm 20: Prayer for Victory 10:08 - Fr. Mike's Prayer 10:53 - Fr. Mike's Reflections Day 155: 03March2022

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What about parables.?.mustard seed?..you can be little but produce big things?

Day 155: April 26, 2022. ✅

Is it true that Mary the mother of Jesus stayed with John in Ephesus until her death. Ephesus is in Turkey and they have pictures of Mary everywhere in Ephesus 🙏💖

It says more clearly in Mark 15v40 about James and Joses being his relatives, not else where

I have a question...if anyone can explain to me... God made us in his image and he is the father of every person on Earth then why are we adopted? I know the Jews where the chosen ones but I'm confused here. Thank you for any reply.

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If Jesus had brothers and sisters don’t you think it would have been recorded in the Bible -especially Jesus? Not only would we have known Jesus’s lineage, but the Bible being the book on lineage to exhaustion, would have known their names who they married their concubines, and the names of their sons and daughters, as well. This is not recorded and if He did have actual siblings would’ve had been for sure!

What is the title of St Jerome’s refutation mentioned here?