A new video that explains the Bible in 10 minutes earned 358,000 views in just 24 hours. Source: OSV News.
The video was made by United States priest and podcaster Fr Mike Schmitz and Ascension, a multimedia Catholic network and a leader in Catholic faith formation and digital content.
The audience response makes this Fr Schmitz’s most “viral video ever, more than doubling his previous one-day record of 160,000 views set with his 2022 review of The Sound of Freedom,” according to a media release from Ascension.
Fr Schmitz, a priest of the Diocese of Duluth, Minnesota, has gained an international following for, among other things, his popular The Bible in a Year and The Catechism in a Year podcasts from Ascension.
“The Bible is amazing but sometimes confusing and hard to read … We’d like to read it, but without a map, it’s easy to get lost,” Fr Schmitz says in the video.
“There is a narrative throughout the Bible that tells a single story. The story of God’s plan for our salvation. Once we understand that story, we can understand the context of every book of the Bible. So, here’s the story in less than 10 minutes.”
In addition to Fr Schmitz, a team of Ascension employees spent months on the production of The Bible in 10 Minutes, according to the release.
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Priest-podcaster’s new viral video ‘The Bible in 10 Minutes’ garners 358,000 views in 24 hours (OSV News)
