I started doing the Bible in a Year on Jan 1st and I'm 53 days in now. Would highly recommend it to other people who are trying to get more involved in their faith. Would love to hear from people who have gone through the whole thing and their takeaways from it. I'm doing the Ascension Presents reading plan. It's definitely helped me with perspective and staying grounded in what I believe in.
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I actually started this on Jan 1st as well. Been great so far and start each day with it. Best of luck
I finished Catechism in a Year last year and did the same thing on my commute to start the day.
I want to eventually do the entire Bible in a Year as a refresher but I've read the whole thing. Hence, Catechism in a Year was a little more interesting. Also, I felt like CIY had a little more discussion about religious topics and controversies where as BIY focuses mostly on the Bible and personal uplifting message. Both of which are good things. Fr. Mike Schmitz is awesome!
Father Mike Schmitz is such a life changing guy. Makes everything so easily available. Catechism in a year is also great.
Highly recommend his YouTube videos too.
Interesting. Another good book is by Fr. Walter Ciszek
https://www.amazon.com/He-Leadeth-Me-Extraordinary-Testament/dp/0804141…
“Captured by a Russian army during World War II and convicted of being a “Vatican spy,” Jesuit Father Walter J. Ciszek spent twenty-three agonizing years in Soviet prisons and the labor camps of Siberia. Only through an utter reliance on God’s will did he manage to endure the extreme hardship. He tells of the courage he found in prayer—a courage that eased the loneliness, the pain, the frustration, the anguish, the fears, the despair. For, as Ciszek relates, the solace of spiritual contemplation gave him an inner serenity upon which he was able to draw amidst the “arrogance of evil” that surrounded him. Ciszek learns to accept the inhuman work in the infamous Siberian salt mines as a labor pleasing to God. And through that experience, he was able to turn the adverse forces of circumstance into a source of positive value and a means of drawing closer to the compassionate and never-forsaking Divine Spirit.
He Leadeth Me is a book to inspire all Christians to greater faith and trust in God—even in their darkest hour. As the author asks, “What can ultimately trouble the soul that accepts every moment of every day as a gift from the hands of God and strives always to do his will?”
Ah nice! I did this last year, and it wasn't some grand plan. Was just rlly stressed (I was googling Bible quotes here and there to help get by) and just thought 1 night after a panic attack, 'Fuck it, imma buy a KJV bible and read it cover to cover'. Started in Feb 2023 and finished Nov 2023. When you turn over that last page of Revelations, you know it's a new life - from now onwards, you don't hold God's word as a book in your hand anymore, you hold it in your heart, and you never again walk in darkness.
I think the best bible out there is the Navarre Bible. It includes extensive commentary and is very informative. I have the full Old and New testament set in hardcover. It's a lot of books. Tons of analysis. I have met a variety of Catholic priests who base their homilies off of Navarre commentary and sources.
It is expensive for the whole set, a few hundred dollars. But, on Amazon you can buy individual books and just test it out and see if you like it. Because what is the use of reading the whole bible if you don't understand it? Here are a few links:
Gospel of John:
The The Navarre Bible: St John's Gospel: Second Edition: Four Courts Press, Four Courts Press: 9781851829033: Amazon.com: Books
Letters of St. Paul:
The Navarre Bible: The Letters of Saint Paul (The Navarre Bible: New Testament): University of Navarre: 9781594170379: Amazon.com: Books
Gospels and Acts:
The Gospels and Acts of the Apostles [The Navarre Bible: Reader's Edition], Packaging may vary: Faculty of Theology of the University of Navarre: 9781889334271: Amazon.com: Books
Wisdom Books:
The Navarre Bible: Wisdom Books (The Navarre Bible: Old Testament): University of Navarre: 9781594170140: Amazon.com: Books
Revelation (which probably needs the most explaining):
The Navarre Bible: Revelation: Press, Four Courts: 9781851829118: Amazon.com: Books
Navarre Bible Revelation 1:
Dang! 90% of that text is just explaining the first verses of Revelations that’s nuts. Incredible detail
Job 9 (Wisdom Books):
Don't you have frequent premarital sex?
Well, you see, like most religious low-IQ people, they constantly go against the teachings of the Bible while simultaneously finding ways to justify their behavior to judge others. Hence why we have this preachy circle jerk of a thread on a finance forum
Have I sinned before? Yes. Do you sin as well? Yes. You should read about St. Augustine if you haven't already and pay attention to this verse:
Confessions (Penguin Classics): Saint Augustine, R. S. Pine-Coffin: 9780140441147: Amazon.com: Books
Exodus 90 is another great program. Very demanding but very rewarding. (Think it might be Catholic specific but not sure)
Definitely agree on it helping you stay grounded in your beliefs. Started it this year as well, and just being able to more intuitively understand why/how we are called to follow a certain path makes the path straighter and easier to follow, especially in an industry that often times (whether directly or indirectly) promotes the opposite
Even Lucifer believes Jesus died for our sins. To just believe is not enough. “Faith without works is dead” (James 2:26).
I already posted this. You're just saying the same thing I just said.
From Catholic Answers:
Why James Says Faith Without Works Is Dead | Catholic Answers Magazine
"Since the justification that James speaks of is in the sight of men and not of God, Protestants say, James 2:24 is no evidence that works are necessary for eternal salvation.
A salvific context
The first problem with this objection is that it fails to consider the context in which James places his teaching about works. James 2:14 sets it up: “What does it profit, my brethren, if a man says he has faith but has not works? Can his faith save him?” (emphasis added).
The context doesn’t suggest that James is speaking of salvation in a temporal sense. He doesn’t mention being saved from physical enemies, or of our salvation being confirmed in the sight of men. He is speaking of the actual gift of salvation that God grants us. And there are a few reasons to believe this.
First, James tells us that “faith by itself, if it has no works, is dead” (v.17). Notice that James doesn’t say “dead in the sight of men.” He says faith itself is dead. In fact, he makes the point vividly by comparing it to a corpse: “For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, so faith apart from works is dead” (v.26).
If James meant that our works merely justify us is in the sight of men, then our lack of works would have no negative effect on our faith itself. Our faith would only seem dead in the sight of men. But that would run contrary to what James actually tells us. Moreover, it would make the parallel to a body without the spirit unintelligible. In what sense can the absence of the spirit have no negative effect on the body?
Also, the three other times when James uses the word save (Gk. sozo) in his epistle, he uses it in reference to the salvation that God grants our souls (James 1:21; 4:12; 5:20). In light of such context, it’s reasonable to conclude that James is using the word in the same way in James 2:14.
Finally, it’s interesting to note that the type of works that James lists as necessary for having a saving faith (clothing the naked and feeding the hungry, v.15) are the same type of works that Jesus says will merit eternal life: “inherit the kingdom prepared for you…for I was hungry and you gave me food…I was naked and you clothed me” (Matt. 25:35-36).
It’s not unreasonable to conclude that James had this teaching in mind when he wrote of the corporal works of mercy (2:15). And if so, then the justification he has in mind is not one that is relative to the sight of men, but one that is wrought by God.
Our Protestants friends are correct in saying that our good works will prove our faith genuine in the eyes of men (see James 2:18). But it doesn’t do justice to James’s teaching for them to stop at this point. There is more to the story.
The main point for James is that our works “complete” our faith and keep it alive. And inasmuch as our works are necessary for a living faith, they are necessary for keeping us in a saving relationship with God. This is why James can write, “You see that a man is justified by works and not by faith alone.”
A Catholic, therefore, is justified in his appeal to James 2:24 in support of his belief that works are necessary for salvation!"
In my opinion, it's way beyond quoting a single passage here or there in the Bible.
If it's all about faith alone, then what are those other hundreds of pages in the Bible for? They seem to be telling me how to live right. Like it's something I'm supposed to be doing.
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