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Bible in a Year – ESV Catholic Edition – Tree of Life
Only 20 Minutes a Day to Know the Power and Wonder of God's Word With Bible in a Year: Your Daily Encounter with God you can read through the entire Bible in a single year! Three daily readings, one each from the Old Testament, Wisdom Literature and the New Testament, keep you engaged as you make your way through the Bible. In addition, each of the daily readings is followed by a short, insightful reflection that will lead you to prayer and help plant God’s Word deep in your heart. Bible-in-a-Year is designed to give you daily selections from the Old Testament, New Testament, and Wisdom Literature to help you read and pray all 73 books of Holy Scripture in one year. Each daily reflection is intended to open up the Scriptures and facilitate a deeper meditation that leads to an encounter with God through his Word. The easy-to-use format will help inspire you to keep reading the Bible every day of the year—day by day, month by month, year after year. Through the daily reading of Sacred Scripture, you will hear the beauty and majesty of the Word that God intended just for you. There are several ways you might like to use the daily readings: Bible in one year, once a day: Follow the plan. Read each day's readings during your daily Bible reading time to finish the whole Bible in a year. Bible in one year, twice a day: Follow the plan, but in two daily sections. Read the Old Testament in the morning and the Wisdom literature and New Testament in the evening. Bible in two years: Read the Old Testament the first year, then the Wisdom literature and New Testament the second year. Scripture quotations are from the] Revised Standard Version of the Bible—Second Catholic Edition (Ignatius Edition), copyright © 2006 National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
1566 pages, Paperback
Published September 30, 2020
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January 7, 2025can’t believe I actually finished this in exactly a year, but I did!!! such an awesome experience. I won’t reveal how many times I fell asleep while reading this (….) BUT I can say overall it was great.
no rating because this is Scripture. which is the first thing I want to acknowledge about reading the Bible — I have heard people say to me, DIRECTLY, that the Bible is merely an interesting book of poetry, which is downright blasphemous. if I wanted to read poetry I’d go read some Robert Frost. the Bible is the inspired Word of God, and that Word is living and true. it is also the person of Jesus. as I like to say: encounter the Word, encounter the Lord!!!!!
I am so glad I have read all of this, especially all of the Old Testament, because it has helped me understand so much more specifically the person of Jesus, how he fulfills Old Testament prophecy, and why what he did to reveal himself as the Christ is/was so important. the Old Testament also tells the story of God’s chosen people, and what a powerful story of LOVE and mercy that is!!
this was a lot to read every day, and I often found it difficult, at the end of a 20 to 30 minute reading session, to then spend time really reflecting/contemplating/praying with the Scripture passage. going forward, I hope to spend more time with smaller passages at a time, studying specific books a little at a time, and making good use of all the Bible resources we own! I also hope to write down verses I’ve saved by hand, and eventually my big goal is to begin memorizing Scripture. I also have hopes for daily Scripture study with our children as part of home education.
I would highly encourage anyone wanting to be more familiar with Scripture to do this! I didn’t love the reflections at the end of each day’s reading, but I’m not a big guided reflection person in general, and of course nothing can water down or negate one’s personal encounter with the LORD!!
“The Spirit and the Bride say, “Come.” And let him who hears say, “Come.” And let him who is thirsty come, let him who desires take the water of life without price.” — Revelation 22:17
no rating because this is Scripture. which is the first thing I want to acknowledge about reading the Bible — I have heard people say to me, DIRECTLY, that the Bible is merely an interesting book of poetry, which is downright blasphemous. if I wanted to read poetry I’d go read some Robert Frost. the Bible is the inspired Word of God, and that Word is living and true. it is also the person of Jesus. as I like to say: encounter the Word, encounter the Lord!!!!!
I am so glad I have read all of this, especially all of the Old Testament, because it has helped me understand so much more specifically the person of Jesus, how he fulfills Old Testament prophecy, and why what he did to reveal himself as the Christ is/was so important. the Old Testament also tells the story of God’s chosen people, and what a powerful story of LOVE and mercy that is!!
this was a lot to read every day, and I often found it difficult, at the end of a 20 to 30 minute reading session, to then spend time really reflecting/contemplating/praying with the Scripture passage. going forward, I hope to spend more time with smaller passages at a time, studying specific books a little at a time, and making good use of all the Bible resources we own! I also hope to write down verses I’ve saved by hand, and eventually my big goal is to begin memorizing Scripture. I also have hopes for daily Scripture study with our children as part of home education.
I would highly encourage anyone wanting to be more familiar with Scripture to do this! I didn’t love the reflections at the end of each day’s reading, but I’m not a big guided reflection person in general, and of course nothing can water down or negate one’s personal encounter with the LORD!!
“The Spirit and the Bride say, “Come.” And let him who hears say, “Come.” And let him who is thirsty come, let him who desires take the water of life without price.” — Revelation 22:17
June 6, 2024
I started on day 106. So far, there were two major editing mistakes. The reflection for day 143 is the same for day 120; the reflection pertains to the readings for day 120. The reflection for day 156 is the same as for day 151; the reflection pertains to the readings for day 151.
December 27, 2020
Great for just reading the main parts of the Bible, but if you really want to understand what's going on and the historic context, it's not for you.
January 1, 2026
Proudest accomplishment of 2025!! Listened along with the Chaldean Diocese BIAY podcast 💗💗
December 20, 2022
Feel honored to finally have read the best selling book in the world.
December 29, 2019
Great way to read the whole bible!
December 31, 2020
I am ashamed to say that this is my first time reading the entire Bible but I am thankful for the help of this book in finally accomplishing this.
May 31, 2021
Good flowing modern English translation that still maintains a quite literal translation.
The formatting of this “bible in a year” edition is well balanced. I took me approximately 10 minutes a day,
The formatting of this “bible in a year” edition is well balanced. I took me approximately 10 minutes a day,
May 19, 2024
Admittedly took me quite a bit longer than a year, but at least it was a do-able reading plan.
January 2, 2026
I have read the bible a few times, this version has some insightful questions at the end on each day which I enjoyed.
July 6, 2025
Now, you know I’m not about to submit a review of God’s word revealed to us, but I am very proud that I did this so I’m reviewing my experience with it instead.
I tried to read the Bible in a Year using an app in 2015. I heard someone say something truly awful about another person, but doing so in a way that weaponized Christianity and I’d just had it. There is no way that this sort of hatred is what we’ve based our whole lives around.
So, I decided to arm myself with the truth instead.
Turns out, the truth is real hard to discover in the book of Chronicles when you’re nursing a baby at 3:00am. So I abandoned my first attempt.
I picked up this edition of the Bible and started on the first day of Lent in 2023. (Yes. It took me a little longer than a year.)
Recently someone said to me “Are Catholics even allowed to read the Bible?” We are. But, my experience has been that we don’t. And yet, we are some of the loudest people claiming our domain over the rights of other humans all in the name of a book someone else has given us Cliff notes on.
Listen, I know who I am. I’m Catholic. I’m proud of it. But I have had a very strong suspicion my entire life that the vast majority are getting all of this wrong. Reading the Bible helped me realize that I’m right about that. Taken in a historical context, many of the things we quote as the truth really have no place in our modern world. I’ll step off my soap box, but the next supposedly Christian person who wants to challenge me on the rights of women, rights of my LGBTQIA+ friends and family, social policies and justice, care of our dying planet, etc, please show me where it says it in the Bible because it doesn’t.
My favorite part of reading through the Bible was discovering entire books I’ve never even heard of, but that were filled with beautiful words. (Sirach is my decided favorite.) So much of the Bible is poetry. Even though I know SO many psalms as a cantor, reading them was an entirely different experience.
If you’ve never challenged yourself to read the entire Bible, this was a great way to do it. Each day has a little summary/wrap up at the end that has a beautiful message for reflection. When my squirrel brain had difficulty understanding what I read, the summary was helpful in bringing me back to certain verses to reread and understand better. Overall, proud of this, but something I plan to do at different stages in my life, always searching for answers in a challenging world, I’m sure it will come in handy.
I tried to read the Bible in a Year using an app in 2015. I heard someone say something truly awful about another person, but doing so in a way that weaponized Christianity and I’d just had it. There is no way that this sort of hatred is what we’ve based our whole lives around.
So, I decided to arm myself with the truth instead.
Turns out, the truth is real hard to discover in the book of Chronicles when you’re nursing a baby at 3:00am. So I abandoned my first attempt.
I picked up this edition of the Bible and started on the first day of Lent in 2023. (Yes. It took me a little longer than a year.)
Recently someone said to me “Are Catholics even allowed to read the Bible?” We are. But, my experience has been that we don’t. And yet, we are some of the loudest people claiming our domain over the rights of other humans all in the name of a book someone else has given us Cliff notes on.
Listen, I know who I am. I’m Catholic. I’m proud of it. But I have had a very strong suspicion my entire life that the vast majority are getting all of this wrong. Reading the Bible helped me realize that I’m right about that. Taken in a historical context, many of the things we quote as the truth really have no place in our modern world. I’ll step off my soap box, but the next supposedly Christian person who wants to challenge me on the rights of women, rights of my LGBTQIA+ friends and family, social policies and justice, care of our dying planet, etc, please show me where it says it in the Bible because it doesn’t.
My favorite part of reading through the Bible was discovering entire books I’ve never even heard of, but that were filled with beautiful words. (Sirach is my decided favorite.) So much of the Bible is poetry. Even though I know SO many psalms as a cantor, reading them was an entirely different experience.
If you’ve never challenged yourself to read the entire Bible, this was a great way to do it. Each day has a little summary/wrap up at the end that has a beautiful message for reflection. When my squirrel brain had difficulty understanding what I read, the summary was helpful in bringing me back to certain verses to reread and understand better. Overall, proud of this, but something I plan to do at different stages in my life, always searching for answers in a challenging world, I’m sure it will come in handy.
December 23, 2024
The reflections section - where the study seeks to provide insights to the daily readings - often seems to force connections; and sometimes the reflections are not well-related to the readings at all. The main benefit of the study is to provide a schedule to complete the Bible in a year.
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December 31, 2022It's the Bible formatted so you can read a little bit each day for a year.
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