Day 193: The Book of Tobit (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 ninety-three, and we are reading today from Isaiah chapters three and four, also Tobit chapter three and four, and Proverbs chapter nine verses thirteen through eighteen. As always, the Bible translation that I'm reading from is the Revised Standard Version, Second Catholic Edition. And 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/bibleinayear. You also can subscribe to this podcast by clicking on Subscribe, and then you get daily episodes every single day that we put out a podcast. As I said yesterday, um, today we're gonna talk a little bit about, so where did this Book of Tobit come from? Because I hear there's a rumor out there that you Catholics have maybe, uh, I don't know, seventy-three books in your Bible, whereas non-Catholics have sixty-six books in their Bible. And so what's the story behind that? I will do my best to recount that tale as best I can today. That's for today. So, but until then, well, here it is. This is the day. Day one hundred and ninety-three. We're reading Isaiah chapters three and four, Tobit chapter three and four, Proverbs nine, verses thirteen through eighteen. The book of the prophet Isaiah, chapter three, The Lord's Judgment. "For behold, the Lord, the Lord of hosts, is