Eric Sammons posts a link to a bible-in-a-year program for CATHOLICS. Yes, Catholics! You don’t have to use one of those abridged-bible programs, and then quick cram in extra books at the end! All books of bible already accounted for!
And if that’s not enough . . . read the CATECHISM along with it! The whole thing! Because there is no ten-point statement of faith for us, no sir! After nearly 2,000 years of theological debate, it is true we still refuse to corner you at a cocktail party and lay out the particulars of the End Times, but we’ve managed to figure out a thing or two (or 2,865) all the same.
Be Catholic. We’ve got the big books. And we’re thinking maybe we even ought to read them. I bet the IC would approve.
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Fine print: 356-day program (so you can finish in less than a year, if it’s a leap year). You can start any time, the days are simply numbered one after another. You could get behind on Wednesdays and Fridays, and then catch up in one giant fest on Sundays, or vice-versa. You could take more than one year to read the whole thing, but we won’t talk about that. And every day there is a reading from a historical Old Testament book, a piece of wisdom literature, and a New Testament book. (Plus the catechism, of course). So you are not, repeat: ARE NOT, utterly plunged into Leviticus or Numbers for weeks on end with no respite. That is, you have a nice Gospel passage about “taking up your cross” or some such thing to remind you that reading the $%^#@* building plans divinely inspired designed for the tabernacle is for your own benefit. (And that you should go to confession for being so impatient about wanting to get on with the story. Don’t worry, plenty of time for graphic violence mid-year, must work through a little front matter first.)