{"id":23392,"date":"2013-12-26T12:00:39","date_gmt":"2013-12-26T19:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/?p=23392"},"modified":"2015-03-19T16:54:07","modified_gmt":"2015-03-19T23:54:07","slug":"reading-the-bible-in-a-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/2013\/12\/26\/reading-the-bible-in-a-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading the Bible in a Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After doing so badly on my New Year Resolutions this year, I&#8217;ve decided to keep it simple next year. That doesn&#8217;t mean that it&#8217;s going to be easy though! I&#8217;ve decided that in 2014 I am going to read the entirety of the Bible, both Old and New Testaments.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve spent the last hour or so looking at different reading plans online. Many that I&#8217;ve found have been Protestant and have unfortunately therefore lacked the <a title=\"Why wouldn\u2019t you want this in your Bible?\" href=\"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/2012\/06\/27\/why-wouldnt-you-want-this-in-your-bible\/\">Deuterocanon<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0If I were to use any of those I would have to squeeze in the extra books\u00a0(Tobit, Wisdom, Maccabees, etc.) at some point in the year. Moving on&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Some reading plans, such as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bible.com\/reading-plans\/36-daily-bible-reading-guide-catholic\" target=\"_blank\">YouVersion<\/a>, don&#8217;t actually cover the entire Bible and instead just cover the majority of the text. While practical, that also seems a bit &#8220;meh&#8221;. Moving on&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I also found one\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/catholicbibleinayear.org\/daily-scripture-reading-schedule\/\" target=\"_blank\">plan<\/a>\u00a0which has quite a\u00a0mix of daily readings. Each day there there are two Old Testament readings, a Psalm and a New Testament reading. That is contrasted with the plans from\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.presentationministries.com\/brochures\/ThroughBible.asp\" target=\"_blank\">Presentation Ministry<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.catholicdoors.com\/bible\/1year.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Catholic Doors<\/a>, both of which assign one book at a time.<\/p>\n<p>As far as I can tell, the most popular plan is one which is put out by the Coming Home Network, which is available in PDF\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.chnetwork.org\/readguide04.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>\u00a0and which some nice person converted into hypertext format\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/readthecatholicbibleinayear.wordpress.com\/302-2\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. It has an Old Testament reading, New Testament reading and then something from the Wisdom literature, such as Psalms or Proverbs. I think this is the plan for me. It even has the option of reading through the Catechism too&#8230;but maybe I&#8217;ll think about that for 2015!<\/p>\n<p>If anyone else has the same goal for 2014, please leave a message below \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Jerome.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-23396 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Jerome.jpg\" alt=\"Jerome\" width=\"600\" height=\"435\" srcset=\"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Jerome.jpg 600w, https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Jerome-300x217.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a>St. Jerome, pray for me!<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000\">\u00a0<strong>UPDATE 05\/20\/14:<\/strong> Meg Hunter-Kilmer has added an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.piercedhands.com\/reading-bible-year\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000\">article<\/span><\/a> on this subject and presents an alternative reading plan.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After doing so badly on my New Year Resolutions this year, I&#8217;ve decided to keep it simple next year. 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