Last Week In Life:
September 13, 2021- September 19, 2021
I laid out the skeleton of this on September 12. I wonder how the flesh of the week will have been filled in by the 19th.
As I am moving, I have less time for sitting at the computer as I am packing, cleaning, eating, going to work.
I should be praying. I wish I could be sleeping. But I’m sinful.
But I still manage to write.
For Good or for Bad here is…
Last Week’s SPECTACULAR STORY OF WEEK
I Wanna Be A Ghost
Two more words never mentioned in the CNN article were prayer and purgatory. What if the loved ones are in purgatory and need prayers? St. Pio of Pietrelcina often reported that souls in purgatory would appear and ask him for prayers. Catholics pray for our dead in the event they are in purgatory, being purged of their sins since nothing unclean can enter heaven (Revelation 21:27).
Recently I introduced my wife to the supernatural comedy Beetlejuice. In the movie a recently deceased couple interact with a goth girl played by Wynona Ryder and her family. The couple played by Alec Baldwin and Geena Davis decide to hire the bio-exorcist Beetlejuice played in grand comedic fashion by Michael Keaton to oust them from the house where they are destined to stay at for the next century. At one point they try to do this themselves. They end up possessing the family living there and making them sing Harry Belafonte’s Day-O while prancing and dancing around the room during dinner. While we’re speaking of Ghostly Films, Ghostbusters Afterlife comes out November 11, a day before my friend Marshall’s birthday and a day after our granddaughter’s 1st year birthday, whom we have to meet.
When I die, I hope that I can come back as a ghost and interact with people. Not to haunt and possess others but to give comfort, guidance,metaphysical hugs and to ask for prayers. I sense the need to be purged of my attachments to this world. I think this might be hypercritical of me to want to be a ghost. When my wife was in rehab a few weeks ago I was somehow afraid the supernatural might show up and communicate with me in the middle of the night scaring the crap out of me. If it can happen to others like in the article cited above, then why not me? When I was in college I remember being scared the Virgin Mary might decide to manifest herself to me as I rode my bike down a dark road from my friend’s house back to the school.
But yet I wouldn’t mind interacting with some people in their dreams. Maybe I could. If God lets me. This dead border control agent did as described on Jimmy Akin’s Mysterious World. If you think about it, the kid in the Sixth Sense who could see dead people had a good relationship with Bruce Willis character you learn is dead at the end of the film. He became comfortable and familiar with him. He gave aid and comfort to the dying. With the Catholic symbolism in the film, the souls the kid interacted with could have been from purgatory. A few weeks ago my friend Marshall went to visit a graveyard and called me up and we prayed a rosary together. Down the street from the house we only live in for the next few weeks is a graveyard that my wife and I have visited on a regular basis. The names of people long gone and forgotten about. Perhaps in purgatory and in need of our prayers. Sometimes they come back to ask for those prayers. I hope I can be one of them. I know it’s a long shot, but possessing people so they can dance around the room in a supernatural way might also be fun.
Last Week’s Other Stories, Articles and Things
US coronavirus: 1 in every 500 US residents have died of Covid-19 – CNN
Three Lies And a Truth About Texas’ Life-Saving Law | Opinion (newsweek.com)
Before the Texas law went into effect, an average of 150 Texan children were killed in abortion clinics each day. Because of the law, it’s estimated that more than 100 children are being saved per day. Thanks to the efforts of the pro-life movement, the state has more than 160 life-affirming pregnancy resource centers offering families real assistance and support—including food, diapers, clothing and counseling. More can and should be done to help families in need, and advocates on both sides of the political spectrum can champion caring for families without also advocating for the deaths of their youngest members. We must ensure children are allowed to be born, and must help families flourish and thrive.
A 100-year-old church in New Rochelle housed a 400-year-old treasure and no one realized it until a man stopped to worship, and looked up.
“It immediately caught my eye, and I knew it was a 17th century Italian painting. And that’s when I began the investigation,” said Tom Ruggio.
A New Flight of the Navigator Is on the Way From Director Bryce Dallas Howard | Tor.com
The classic Disney kids’ film Flight of the Navigator is making its way back to us—this time as a remake from actress and director Bryce Dallas Howard (The Mandalorian). Howard will produce and direct the in-development film, which will have a female lead this time around.
Randal Kleiser (Grease) directed the original film, which wasn’t a huge hit but was a huge film for everyone who saw it as a child. (If you don’t believe me, I’ll direct you to Emmet Asher-Perrin’s essay.)
Howard is best known as an actress (the Jurassic World franchise), but has been settling into the director’s chair with Disney via the company’s Star Wars series on Disney+: She directed two episodes of The Mandalorian, and also an episode of the upcoming The Book of Boba Fett.
There’s no word on who’s tasked with writing this new version of the film, or when it might begin production.
This Week on
Jimmy Akin’s Mysterious World
MYS172: The 9/11 attacks were the deadliest terror attack in US history, but were bin Laden and Al-Qa’eda really responsible? Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli look at claims that other nations were involved or that it was an “inside job” by US officials or that there was a coverup.
FEAST DAYS ,HOLIDAYS AND LAST WEEK IN HISTORY
WinCalendar: Calendars, Holidays, Days & Today
Monday September 13, 2021
Saint John Chrysostom, bishop and doctor of the Church – Memorial
- Pro-Trump rally expecting 10,000 attendees sees only a few hundred show up
- More than half of Americans support vaccine mandates for workplaces, classrooms and sporting events
- California couple die of Covid and leave behind 5 kids, including newborn daughter
- A company will pay someone $1,300 to watch 13 horror movies in October
- Hospital to stop delivering babies after 30 staffers quit over vaccine mandate
Here is what else happened on this day in History.
- 1985 – Super Mario Bros. is released in Japan for the NES, which starts the Super Mario series of platforming games.
- 1987 – Goiânia accident: A radioactive object is stolen from an abandoned hospital in Goiânia, Brazil, contaminating many people in the following weeks and causing some to die from radiation poisoning.
- 1988 – Hurricane Gilbert is the strongest recorded hurricane in the Western Hemisphere, later replaced by Hurricane Wilma in 2005 (based on barometric pressure).
- 1989 – Largest anti-Apartheid march in South Africa, led by Desmond Tutu.
Tuesday September 14, 2021
Exaltation of the Holy Cross – Feast
- Norm Macdonald Dead: ‘Saturday Night Live’ Alum & Veteran Comic Was 61
- Woodward book: Worried Trump could go rogue, Milley took top-secret action to protect nuclear weapons
- Comedian and ‘SNL’ alum Jim Breuer cancels shows at venues requiring Covid vaccination
- He was reading at 1 and doing fractions by 2. At 13 years old, he’s majoring in aerospace engineering at Georgia Tech.
- Fed Judge: NY Vaccine Rule Must Allow for Religious Exemptions
Here is what else happened on this day in History.
- 1682 – Bishop Gore School, one of the oldest schools in Wales, is founded.
- 1994 – The Major League Baseball season is canceled because of a strike.
- 2015 – The first observation of gravitational waves is made, announced by the LIGO and Virgo collaborations on 11 February 2016.
Wednesday September 15, 2021
Our Lady of Sorrows – Memorial
- The California recall effort has failed
- Arizona sues Biden administration over COVID-19 vaccine mandate
- Conservative radio host Bob Enyart dies of covid after boycotting vaccine over abortion claim
Here is what else happened on this day in History.
- 1835 – HMS Beagle, with Charles Darwin aboard, reaches the Galápagos Islands. The ship lands at Chatham or San Cristobal, the easternmost of the archipelago.
- 1915 – The Empire Picture Theatre (now The New Empire Cinema), the oldest running cinema in mainland Australia, opens in Bowral, New South Wales.
- 1935 – The Nuremberg Laws deprive German Jews of citizenship.
- 1935 – Nazi Germany adopts a new national flag bearing the swastika.
- 2000 – The Summer Olympics, officially known as the games of the XXVII Olympiad, are opened in Sydney, Australia.
- 2008 – Lehman Brothers files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, the largest bankruptcy filing in U.S. history.
Thursday September 16, 2021
Saints Cornelius, pope, and Cyprian, bishop, martyrs – Memorial
- France says it killed ISIS leader behind deaths of U.S. soldiers, hails big victory
- Jeopardy!’ Will Go with Mayim Bialik, Ken Jennings as Hosts Rest of Season
- Aides at U.S. Nursing Homes Least Likely to Be Vaccinated, Study Shows
- Jared Polis’ Wedding Marks 1st Same-Sex Marriage Of Sitting Governor : NPR
- South Florida landlord requires new tenants and those renewing their leases to be vaccinated
- Misinformation killed her’: Bride-to-be who hesitated to get vaccinated dies of Covid
- Simone Biles named one of Time’s “100 Most Influential People” as she takes a stand against a system that perpetrated abuse
- France suspends 3,000 unvaccinated health workers
Here is what else happened on this day in History.
- 1880 – The Cornell Daily Sun prints its first issue in Ithaca, New York. The Sun is the United States’ oldest, continuously-independent college daily.
- 1955 – A Zulu-class submarine becomes the first to launch a ballistic missile.
- 1979 – Eight people escape from East Germany to the west in a homemade hot air balloon.
Friday September 17, 2021
Saint Robert Bellarmine, bishop and doctor of the Church;
Saint Hildegard of Bingen, virgin and doctor of the Church – Optional Memorial
- U.S. Border Patrol Found 2 Children Abandoned On The U.S.-Mexico Border : NPR
- Pentagon reverses itself, calls deadly Kabul strike an error
- Clinton campaign lawyer Michael Sussmann indicted for allegedly lying to FBI during Russia investigation
- 600,000 White Flags On The National Mall Honor Lives Lost To COVID : Coronavirus Updates : NPR
- Anthony Gonzalez, a Republican Who Voted to Impeach Trump, Won’t Run in 2022
- Carmine’s Hostess Attacked After Asking Group from Texas for Vaccination Proof to Dine Inside
- Jane Powell Dead: ‘Royal Wedding’ Actress Of Golden Age Was 92
- Idaho Is Rationing Health Care Statewide As It Struggles To Cope With COVID-19
- Gabby Petito’s family makes plea for information about missing daughter
Here is what else happened on this day in History.
- 1976 – The Space Shuttle Enterprise is unveiled by NASA.
- 2011 – Occupy Wall Street movement begins in Zuccotti Park, New York City.
- 2013 – Grand Theft Auto V earns more than half a billion dollars on its first day of release
Saturday September 18, 2021
St. Joseph of Copertino
Batman Day
Cheeseburger Day –
Oktoberfest – Germany
- UN concerned about detained migrants vanishing in Libya (apnews.com)
- Taliban replace ministry for women with ‘virtue’ authorities (apnews.com)
- In edgy Washington, police outnumber Jan. 6 protesters (apnews.com)
- Fearful US residents in Afghanistan hiding out from Taliban (apnews.com)
- California wildfires make run toward giant sequoia groves (apnews.com)
- Trailblazing tourist trip to orbit ends with splashdown (apnews.com)
Here is what else happened on this day in History.
- 1927 – The Columbia Broadcasting System goes on the air.
- 2001 – First mailing of anthrax letters from Trenton, New Jersey in the 2001 anthrax attacks.
Sunday September 19, 2021
Saint Januarius, bishop and martyr – Optional Memorial
International Talk like a Pirate Day
Bishop Barron’s Homily of the Week
- Taliban-run Kabul municipality to female workers: Stay home (apnews.com)
- Democrats push to retool health care programs for millions (apnews.com)
- Early results in Russia show pro-Kremlin party leads (apnews.com)
- Trudeau makes final appeal ahead of Canada’s election (apnews.com)
- US launches mass expulsion of Haitian migrants from Texas (apnews.com)
- Dutch king unveils Holocaust name monument in Amsterdam (apnews.com)
- Emmys: ‘Crown,’ ‘Lasso,’ ‘Queen’s Gambit,’ streaming triumph (apnews.com)
- Search for Gabby Petito boyfriend continues after body found (apnews.com)
Here is what else happened on this day in History.
- 1796 – George Washington’s Farewell Address is printed across America as an open letter to the public.
- 2010 – The leaking oil well in the Deepwater Horizon oil spill is sealed.
POPE FRANCIS’S FAMOUS LAST WEEK’S WORDS
Pope calls for integration of Roma people; condemns prejudice, exclusion | Crux Now
Pope to bishops: Listen to abuse victims for sake of church (apnews.com)
A Chance To Do A Work Of Mercy
This is Shanitah Nakaweesa, she is apart of the Vera Levicchi Children’s ministry. These precious children of God are in need of mattresses,beds, blankets, mosquito nets,food and rent! Me, my brother from Uganda, and our sister Shanitah and many more hope and pray that some kind and/or Christ led supporters would make any contribution for their comfort and for the glory of God!
Thank you.
In today’s steeplechase of needs, not only is Ntege Nasser struggling to raise three month’s rent for his orphans, but now his little girl is sick too. My guess is that we need somewhere around $800 for rent and medical bills. Won’t know for sure till he returns from the docs. https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/MercyForLifeCorp