Day 157: Following Jesus (2026)

Mike Schmitz· Host0:00

[gentle music] Hi, my name is Father Mike Schmitz, 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 hundred and fifty-seven. We are on day four of our second messianic checkpoint through the Gospel of Saint Mark. We're reading the Gospel of Mark, chapters seven and eight. We're also praying Psalm twenty-three, which is gonna sound familiar to many of you. Psalm twenty-three today. As always, the Bible translation that I'm reading from is the Revised Standard Version, Second Catholic Edition. I'm using the Great Adventure Bible from Ascension to read the scriptures. To download your own Bible in a Year reading plan, you can visit ascensionpress.com/bibleinayear. And if you want to, and you're able to, you can subscribe to this podcast in order to receive daily episodes. You also can rate this podcast. I don't know if anyone knows about that, but you can. You can give it zero stars. You can give it one star. You can give it five stars. You can write a review, whatever you like to do. [chuckles] But we are on day one hundred and fifty-seven, which is remarkable, and just... I, I know I say this too often, but gosh, what a gift. For one hundred and fifty-seven days, you have opened your heart and opened your mind to God's Word. And that is, uh, that is... It's, it's not small. It is not a small thing. And so here we are, reading from the Gospel of Mark, chapters seven and eight, and praying Psalm twenty-three. The Gospel of Saint Mark, chapter seven. The tradition of the elders. Now, when the Pharisees gathered together to him, with some