Days 1 to 120 (Bible in a Year Companion, 1)

Awesome book

A great accompaniment to the Bible in a Year Ascension Press.

Excellent companion to use whilst listening to the Podcast by Father Mike Schmitzs, makes reading the Bible so much easier.

Great companion book to Fr Mike's podcast

Not what I thought. You have to connect with Internet. Thought I could just read and study.

One of my best companions! Really helps to fully understand what the Bible is telling us. The lay out is good and all points are clearly stated. Looking forward now to moving onto Volume 2! Thank you!

Best companion book for the Catholic Bible, which we bought as well. Really gives the reader more to think about after reading a section in the Bible. A++++!!!!

A beautiful easy to read Bible. Like the colour coding.

Of course you would have heard or subscribed to the podcast by Fr. Mike Schmitz and possibly followed through all 365 days plus. Having the 'companion' text is better than the transcript, as you're now sure it's passed editorial care of the Ascension Press team: Jeff Cavins and Lavinia Spirito. It's also colour coded on the edges to correspond to Cavin's Great Adventure Bible Timeline if you already like the system. The reading font and type size is comfortable enough for anyone on the go or elderly, and there is some space for adding notes. The text is also free from some of the constraints of the podcast platform regarding religious faith or violence, and the editors seem sensitive about this although anyone who feels the need to be immunised from tragedy and violence is certainly not living in reality. The death of Jesus was excruciatingly violent alone, and the message about redemption is closely tied to this whole 'story' told in the Bible of God's long and faithful relationship with humanity. There nothing overtly Catholic about the commentary so it's definitely fine for any Christian to use. I am totally pleased with having bought all three volumes and glad it was broken into these to make them portable, although I won't be surprised there'll be other formats to look forward to. No caveats here, except this is about making the whole library of the Scriptures accessible to 'everyone' and those theological apologists and scholars can certainly look elsewhere for source material. Definitely a worthwhile buy especially if there's a deal.

This year I'm getting serious about reading the Holy Bible, and am going by the Bible in a Year program produced by Jeff Cavins and Fr. Mike Schmitz. I purchased the LARGE print Great Adventure Bible that has a color-coded timeline and matching colors on each theme in the Holy Bible. And there's the Ascension App where Fr. Mike Schmitz reads that day's lesson and gives deeper explanations of the meanings. I saw this companion book to also follow along with the daily readings, and it's got some illustrations too. The font and layout are easy to read, and I have poor vision. This book is VERY helpful and I'm glad I bought it. It covers the first 3 or 4 months of readings and I plan to buy the subsequent ones as I go through this AWESOME program. A huge thank you to Jeff Cavins and Fr. Mike Schmitz for setting all of this up! 😊

Father Mike reads right from it or his words are noted after reading the scriptures each day. A nice addition to the Bible and the podcast.