Today we read about Jesus' powerful teaching about the Eucharist. Fr. Mike invites us to believe that the Eucharist is truly the Body, Blood, Soul, and Divinity of Our Lord Jesus Christ because Jesus said it himself. Today's readings are John 4-6 and Proverbs 5:7-14. For the complete reading plan, visit ascensionpress.com/bibleinayear. Please note: The Bible contains adult themes that may not be suitable for children - parental discretion is advised.
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Hi, my name's 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 you and I, or we, fit into that story today. Today is Day 100. You guys, we did it!
phenomenal well done you are almost a third of the way through you're definitely way over a quarter i don't do math well but today is day 100 and we have the second day of our messianic checkpoint we're reading through the gospel of john today is john chapter 4 5 and 6 three chapters in john's gospel we're also reading from proverbs chapter 5 verses 7 through 14 as always the translation that i am reading from is the revised standard version second catholic edition
I'm using the Great Adventure Bible from Ascension. To download your Bible in a Year reading plan, you can visit ascensionpress.com slash Bible in a Year. And if you have not yet subscribed on day 100, then we don't want you to subscribe. That's it. I'm done asking. Just kidding. I think I have to keep asking. But you know that there's no pressure. Also, this is a little pro tip.
Maybe I've already shared this. I don't know. If you're sitting there thinking, Father, why do you have to say the same thing every time? And I already know this and I already know what day it is because I downloaded my Bible in a Year reading plan from ascensionpress.com slash Bible in a Year like 98 days ago. You can just hit that fast forward button a couple of times and man, all of a sudden,
You're already there. We're reading the Gospel of John like we're doing right now. I'm just excited. I'm sorry. I need to calm it down. When we get to the Gospels, get to the New Testament, I love the Old Testament. It is incredible. It's incredible. The Hebrew covenant, the Hebrew story, the Hebrew scriptures, so good.
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Chapter 2: What does Ascension do with financial gifts?
We worship what we know, for salvation is from the Jews. But the hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for such the Father seeks to worship him. God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth. The woman said to him, I know that Messiah is coming, he who is called Christ.
When he comes, he will show us all things. Jesus said to her, I who speak to you am he. Just then his disciples came. They marveled that he was talking with a woman, but none said, what do you wish or why are you talking with her? So the woman left her water jar and went away into the city and said to the people, come see a man who told me all that I ever did. Can this be the Christ?
They went out of the city and were coming to him. Meanwhile, the disciples begged him, saying, Rabbi, eat. But he said to them, I have food to eat of which you do not know. So the disciples said to one another, Has anyone brought him food? Jesus said to them, My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to accomplish his work. Do you not say there are yet four months? Then comes the harvest.
I tell you, lift up your eyes and see how the fields are already white for harvest. He who reaps receives wages and gathers fruit for eternal life so that sower and reaper may rejoice together. For here the saying holds true, one sows and another reaps. I sent you to reap that for which you did not labor. Others have labored and you have entered into their labor.
Many Samaritans from that city believed in him because of the woman's testimony. He told me all that I ever did. So when the Samaritans came to him, they asked him to stay with them, and he stayed there two days. And many more believed because of his word.
They said to the woman, It is no longer because of your words that we believe, for we have heard for ourselves, and we know that this is indeed the Savior of the world. Jesus departs for Galilee. After the two days, he departed to Galilee. For Jesus himself testified that a prophet has no honor in his own country.
So when he came to Galilee, the Galileans welcomed him, having seen all that he had done in Jerusalem at the feast, for they too had gone to the feast. Jesus heals an official's son. So he came again to Cana in Galilee, where he had made the water wine. And at Capernaum there was an official whose son was ill.
When he heard that Jesus had come from Judea to Galilee, he went and begged him to come down and heal his son, for he was at the point of death. Jesus therefore said to him, Unless you see signs and wonders, you will not believe. The official said to him, Sir, come down before my child dies. Jesus said to him, Go, your son will live.
The man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him and went his way. As he was going down, his servants met him and told him that his son was living. So he asked them the hour when he began to mend, and they said to him, Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him. The father knew that was the hour when Jesus had said to him, Your son will live, and he himself believed in all his household.
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Chapter 3: What are today's Bible readings?
Man, Lord God, I just thank you so much. Thank you so much, God, for the gift of calling the Samaritan woman that she can have hope in her life. Thank you so much, Father, for the gift of revealing your love and who you are, that you have the authority to tell a paralyzed person, someone who is suffering for 38 years, to rise and walk.
Lord God, thank you so much for revealing that you are equal to the Father, and yet you have the humility of only doing what the Father asks. And Jesus, thank you so much for the gift of yourself in the Eucharist. It's a gift that we cannot fathom and we can never thank you for enough. We receive our thanks, Lord God, today and every day. In Jesus' name we pray, amen.
In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, amen. As I mentioned yesterday, I said that today's reading is a reading that has changed my life. It has truly changed my life. And all of it, of course, as I mentioned, the woman of Samaria and we have the man who's suffering for 38 years. We have the official son. But here when we get to Chan chapter 6, it's remarkable.
We have the feeding of the 5,000. Incredible. We have the walking on water on the Sea of Galilee. Amazing. And then we get to this place where all these people, 5,000 people, this big crowd is wondering, who is Jesus? And they come to him and Jesus sees them coming. And he basically says, you're not here because you believe in me. You're here because you got fed. You just want more food.
That's all that it is. My feeding you yesterday with five loaves and two fish didn't convince you to believe in me. Because if you believe in me, here's what you're going to do. You're going to realize that not only am I the one sent by the Father, but also if you want to have life... Here's what you need to do. You have to recognize that I'm the true bread that came down from heaven.
Of course, they murmur against this. We know where he came from. We know his mom. We know his dad. We know his brethren. We know his relatives, that kind of situation. But Jesus makes it very clear. He says in John 6, verse 51, he says, I am the living bread which came down from heaven. Remember the manna that came down from heaven in the book of Exodus and Numbers? Yeah, that's awesome.
But Jesus is saying, I'm the true bread, living bread that came down from heaven. And he goes on, if anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. And the bread which I shall give for the life of the world is my flesh. Now, this is remarkable. Why?
Because not only is Jesus saying that I'm the new bread came from heaven, but he also is making a connection between what we heard yesterday, which is when John the Baptist said, behold, the lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world. Because remember this. What happened when you ate the flesh of the lamb? You were given freedom and life.
Remember this, you had to eat the flesh of the lamb, be marked with the blood of the lamb, and you were given freedom and you were given life. And Jesus is saying so clearly here, if you eat the bread of heaven, which is my flesh, you will have what? You have freedom. You have life. And now, to think that, well, maybe that's just being symbolic. Maybe Jesus is being figurative in this case.
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