Day 327: Origin of the Diaconate (2024)

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What is the purpose of the Advent Night of Reflection?

Fr. Mike Schmitz 0:00
Hello, everybody. My name is Father Mike Schmitz. I want to let you know about a one-night-only opportunity we have in Newark, New Jersey on Monday, December 9th. It's right after the start of Advent. We're doing an Advent Night of Reflection and Q&A at the Newark Performing Arts Center again Monday, December 9th at 7 o'clock. If you're interested in finding out more about this, go to ascensionpress.com slash fathermiketour. Basically, a night of reflection, diving deeply into what it is that we're preparing for in the season of Advent. If you're interested at all, Monday, December 9th, 7 o'clock, Newark Performing Arts Center. Go to ascensionpress.com slash Father Mike Tour. That's F-R-M-I-K-E Tour. God bless.
Fr. Mike Schmitz 0:40
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 327. We're reading a short chapter, Acts chapter 6, as well as Romans chapters 9 and 10. We're reading Proverbs chapter 27, verses 10 through 12. As always, the Bible translation I'm reading from is the Revised Standard Version, 2nd I'm using the Great Adventure Bible from Ascension.

What are the readings for Day 327?

Fr. Mike Schmitz 1:11
If you want to download your own Bible in a Year rating plan, you can visit ascensionpress.com slash Bible in a Year. You can also subscribe to this podcast. I think that was the fastest I've ever gone through this. You know, just trying to cut down on time, you guys. I know yesterday, last couple days, the Gospel of Luke was super long. So who knows? Maybe if I race through that intro, then you're like, oh man, you shaved off seven seconds. This is great. As I said, it is day 327, reading Acts of the Apostles, chapter 6, as well as St. Paul's letter to the Romans, chapters 9 and 10, and the book of Proverbs, chapter 27, verses 10 through 12.

What is the significance of the diaconate's origin?

Scripture Reader 1:47
The Acts of the Apostles, chapter six, seven chosen to serve.
Fr. Mike Schmitz 1:53
Now, in these days, when the disciples were increasing in number, the Hellenists murmured against the Hebrews because their widows were neglected in the daily distribution. And the 12 summoned the body of the disciples and said, it is not right that we should give up preaching the word of God to serve tables. Therefore, brethren, Pick out from among you seven men of good repute, full of the Spirit and of wisdom, whom we may appoint to this duty. But we will devote ourselves to prayer and to the ministry of the word. And what they said pleased the whole multitude, and they chose Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Spirit, and Philip, and Prochorus, and Nicanor, and Timon, and Promenas, and Nicholas, a proselyte of Antioch.
Fr. Mike Schmitz 2:32
these they sat before the apostles and they prayed and laid their hands upon them and the word of god increased and the number of the disciples multiplied greatly in jerusalem and a great many of the priests were obedient to the faith the arrest of stephen and stephen full of grace and power did great wonders and signs among the people Then some of those who belonged to the synagogue of the freedmen, as it was called, and of the Cyrenians, and of the Alexandrians, and of those from Cilicia and Asia, arose and disputed with Stephen. But they could not withstand the wisdom and the spirit with which he spoke. Then they secretly instigated men who said, We have heard him speak blasphemous words against Moses and God.
Fr. Mike Schmitz 3:14
And they stirred up the people and the elders and the scribes, and they came upon him and seized him and brought him before the council, and set up false witnesses who said, This man never ceases to speak words against this holy place and the law. For we have heard him say that this Jesus of Nazareth will destroy this place and will change the customs which Moses delivered to us. And gazing at him, all who sat in the council saw that his face was like the face of an angel.

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