David picked up five stones to combat Goliath. (1 Samuel 17:40)
Father Ryan has suggested that our five stones are:
Daily Prayer,
Weekly Fasting,
Daily Scripture (the Bible),
Monthly Confession and
Weekly Eucharist.
With these simple weapons, we secure the Light.
The Bible is born from the heart of the Lord. It is His Word. We should spend time each day listening to what He has to tell us. Fr. Mike Schmitz, with Ascension, will begin a new podcast with the new year — The Bible in a Year podcast. This reading plan follows Ascension’s Bible Timeline. Each day, Fr. Mike will read 2-3 Scripture passages that coincide with the 12 periods of The Great Adventure Bible Timeline. He walks us through the entire Catholic Bible in 365 episodes, providing commentary, reflection, and prayer along the way.
While the podcast will indeed go through every word of the Bible in 365 days, you may go at your own pace. You can do one episode a day, or a few per week. The podcast will be there for you, on every major podcasting platform as well as Ascension’s own website. The Bible translation that Fr. Mike will be using is the Revised Standard Version—Second Catholic Edition, but any Catholic Bible will do. Register, and when the podcast begins, you will be notified.