Fr. Mike Schmitz

And so the idea behind this whole thing that we wanted to do was contextualize the

the entire Bible, right?

To have that, here's part of the story, and here's Isaiah speaking into this problem that's going on with the kingdom of Judah.

And that sense of being able to say, the call to repentance is now specific to these people, but also obviously timeless in the sense that it's our call as well.

So right off the bat, if anyone's downloaded the Bible in a Year reading plan,

You can see that after day 11, we have, you know, Genesis 1 through 11, or day 5, Genesis 1 through 11, with some Psalms in there and Proverbs and whatnot.

And then we kick off, here is the story of the patriarchs, or the era of the patriarchs, and you have Genesis 12, and we start the beginning of the book of Job as well.

That's kind of like this, okay, this...

this parallel track of not only the unfolding of the patriarchs, but also here's the story of this man, this man Job, who asks the most ancient of questions.

If God is good, then why do I suffer?

If God is good, then...

Why am I going through what I'm going through?

And so it's just this remarkable, I think it's really cool.

And also when we get to Exodus, that's when we begin Leviticus, which would be then kind of this, again, simultaneously as we unfold the law in Leviticus, we also are hearing the story of God setting his people free in Exodus and saying, okay, I need to give you some structure to your lives as I begin to build you up into a new people.

And just, I mean, really excited about that, how that all will,

fit together.

So we'll be reading every day, as I said, something from the narrative books until we get halfway into the year, give or take.

We're going to be really living with the profits because there's more profits than there are narrative books.

And but up until then, we have like some narrative and then we have those I don't want to say ancillary books or supplementary because they're all still

verifiably the word of God.