Last Week In Life:

December 13 , 2021-December 19 , 2021

Last Week’s SPECTACULAR STORY OF WEEK

I have to admit this lead story is one of the laziest I have written all year. It’s just a few pictures and some videos. I have felt tired and burnt out lately. Working all the time saps your energy reserves. No energy. No creativity.

But this week celebrates that when individuals sometimes united with others, sometimes by themselves have energy to be creative, you get great results.

The Nutcracker
A Christmas Carol
The Disney/Fox Merger which will eventually bring X-Men and the Fantastic Four into the MCU
Symphony No. 9 (“From the New World” a.k.a. the “New World Symphony”.
The New Spider-Man movie with lots of great Easter Eggs.
And this new video from Steven Colbert.

WARNING LANGUAGE

This reminds us that 20 years ago the ultimate battle of movie fantasy franchises began.

Harry Potter vs. Lord of the Rings: Franchise Deathmatch 2

A group of teen wizards began a war with another wizard and his gang of little people which consisted of dwarfs and some race called Hobbits. These battles lasted for about a decade or so. Our world is not just full of extra terrestrial sci-fi timey whimy happenings, it is a place filled with the magic of stories told literately and cinematically.

Some folks are Team Potter.

Some folks are Team Tolkien.

Some are both.

And the rare person is neither.

While Stephen is rapping about the # Trilly, Potter heads can return to Hogwarts in 2022.

And next year, a NEW ENTRY into the Potter verse.

Rowling continues to publish fantasy stories that don’t take place in the Wizarding World.

The Christmas Pig by J. K. Rowling(Author), Jim Field(Illustrator)

A heartwarming, page-turning adventure about one child’s love for his most treasured thing, and how far he will go to find it. A tale for the whole family to fall in love with, from one of the world’s greatest storytellers.

One boy and his toy are about to change everything…

Jack loves his childhood toy, Dur Pig. DP has always been there for him, through good and bad. Until one Christmas Eve something terrible happens — DP is lost. But Christmas Eve is a night for miracles and lost causes, a night when all things can come to life… even toys. And Jack’s newest toy — the Christmas Pig (DP’s replacement) – has a daring plan: Together they’ll embark on a magical journey to seek something lost, and to save the best friend Jack has ever known…

Tolkien contimes to publish more material then George R.R. Martin. 2021 saw the release of a new Tolkien book.

The Nature of Middle-earth: J.R.R Tolkien,., Carl F Hostetter

first ever publication of J.R.R. Tolkien’s final writings on Middle-earth, covering a wide range of subjects and perfect for those who have read and enjoyed The Silmarillion, The Lord of the Rings, Unfinished Tales, and The History of Middle-earth, and want to learn more about Tolkien’s magnificent world.

It is well known that J.R.R. Tolkien published The Hobbit in 1937 and The Lord of the Rings in 1954–5. What may be less known is that he continued to write about Middle-earth in the decades that followed, right up until the years before his death in 1973.

For him, Middle-earth was part of an entire world to be explored, and the writings in The Nature of Middle-earth reveal the journeys that he took as he sought to better understand his unique creation. From sweeping themes as profound as Elvish immortality and reincarnation, and the Powers of the Valar, to the more earth-bound subjects of the lands and beasts of Númenor, the geography of the Rivers and Beacon-hills of Gondor, and even who had beards!

This new collection, which has been edited by Carl F. Hostetter, one of the world’s leading Tolkien experts, is a veritable treasure-trove offering readers a chance to peer over Professor Tolkien’s shoulder at the very moment of discovery: and on every page, Middle-earth is once again brought to extraordinary life.

So even though this particular post is not super creative, I have pointed out to you folks that are.

Last Week’s Other Stories, Articles and Things

10 of the most amazing dinosaurs discovered in 2021 (nationalgeographic.com)

Christian persecution in Nigeria is “more intense now than ever” says a leading Nigerian Catholic bishop | Catholic News Agency

San Gennaro’s blood liquefies for third time in 2021 | Catholic News Agency

SDG Says Farewell to the National Catholic Register – Decent Films

O’Malley says EWTN, social media give distorted image of US support for Pope | Crux (cruxnow.com)

As ‘It’s A Wonderful Life’ turns 75, Karolyn ‘Zuzu’ Grimes reflects on the film – The Washington Post

Tito Edwards – NCRegister The Best In Catholic Blogging

This Week on

Jimmy Akin’s Mysterious World

MYS185: In 1941, the US and Japan engaged in tense negotiations to avoid war, but failed. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli discuss who was responsible for that failure; whether the failure was intended; and what role Soviet agent Harry Dexter White played in all this.

Pearl Harbor Conspiracy? (FDR, Advance Knowledge, Soviet Spy)

FEAST DAYS ,HOLIDAYS AND LAST WEEK IN HISTORY

WinCalendar: Calendars, Holidays, Days & Today

Monday December 13, 2021

Saint Lucy, Virgin and Martyr

National Cocoa Day

Green Monday

National Day Of The Horse

Top news stories on this day

The source I go to for headlines didn’t have any for this day. Sure I could have looked some up. But I didn’t.

Here is what else happened on this day in History.

Al Gore Concedes Presidential Election – HISTORY

1294 – Saint Celestine V resigns the papacy after only five months to return to his previous life as an ascetic hermit.^[1]
1545 – The Council of Trent begins as the embodiment of the Counter-Reformation.^[2]
1577 – Sir Francis Drake sets sail from Plymouth, England, on his round-the-world voyage.^[3]
1623 – The Plymouth Colony establishes the system of trial by 12-men jury in the American colonies.^[4]
1636 – The Massachusetts Bay Colony organizes three militia regiments to defend the colony against the Pequot Indians, a date now considered the founding of the National Guard of the United States.^[5]
1642 – Abel Tasman is the first recorded European to sight New Zealand.
1962 – NASA launches Relay 1, the first active repeater communications satellite in orbit.
1972 – Apollo program: Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt begin the third and final extra-vehicular activity (EVA) or “Moonwalk” of Apollo 17. To date they are the last humans to set foot on the Moon.

Tuesday December 14, 2021

Saint John of the Cross, Priest and Doctor of the Church

Top news stories on this day

Here is what else happened on this day in History.

Roald Amundsen becomes first explorer to reach the South Pole – HISTORY

1896 – The Glasgow Underground Railway is opened by the Glasgow District Subway Company.
1902 – The Commercial Pacific Cable Company lays the first Pacific telegraph cable, from San Francisco to Honolulu.
1903 – The Wright brothers make their first attempt to fly with the Wright Flyer at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
1964 – American Civil Rights Movement: Heart of Atlanta Motel v. United States: The Supreme Court of the United States rules that Congress can use the Constitution’s Commerce Clause to fight discrimination.
1972 – Apollo program: Eugene Cernan is the last person to walk on the moon, after he and Harrison Schmitt complete the third and final extravehicular activity (EVA) of the Apollo 17 mission.
2012 – Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting: Twenty-eight people, including the gunman, are killed in Sandy Hook, Connecticut.
2017 – The Walt Disney Company announces that it would acquire 21st Century Fox, including the 20th Century Fox movie studio, for $52.4 billion.

Wednesday December 15, 2021

Top news stories on this day

Here is what else happened on this day in History.

U.S. Declares an End to the War in Iraq – HISTORY

687 – Pope Sergius I is elected as a compromise between antipopes Paschal and Theodore.
1791 – The United States Bill of Rights becomes law when ratified by the Virginia General Assembly.
1836 – The U.S. Patent Office building in Washington, D.C., nearly burns to the ground, destroying all 9,957 patents issued by the federal government to that date, as well as 7,000 related patent models.^[6]
1869 – The short-lived Republic of Ezo is proclaimed in the Ezo area of Japan.^[8] It is the first attempt to establish a democracy in Japan.^[9]
1890 – Hunkpapa Lakota leader Sitting Bull is killed on Standing Rock Indian Reservation, leading to the Wounded Knee Massacre.
1893 – Symphony No. 9 (“From the New World” a.k.a. the “New World Symphony”) by Antonín Dvořák premieres in a public afternoon rehearsal at Carnegie Hall in New York City, followed by a concert premiere on the evening of December 16.
1970 – Soviet spacecraft Venera 7 successfully lands on Venus. It is the first successful soft landing on another planet.
1973 – John Paul Getty III, grandson of American billionaire J. Paul Getty, is found alive near Naples, Italy, after being kidnapped by an Italian gang on July 10.
1973 – The American Psychiatric Association votes 13–0 to remove homosexuality from its official list of psychiatric disorders, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.
1978 – U.S. President Jimmy Carter announces that the United States will recognize the People’s Republic of China and sever diplomatic relations with the Republic of China (Taiwan).
2000 – The third reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant is shut down.
2001 – The Leaning Tower of Pisa reopens after 11 years and $27,000,000 spent to stabilize it, without fixing its famous lean.

Thursday December 16, 2021

Top news stories on this day

Again the source I go to for headlines didn’t have any for this day. Sure I could have looked some up. But I didn’t.

Here is what else happened on this day in History.

The Boston Tea Party – HISTORY

1689 – Convention Parliament: The Declaration of Right is embodied in the Bill of Rights.
1777 – Virginia becomes the first state to ratify the Articles of Confederation.
1937 – Theodore Cole and Ralph Roe attempt to escape from the American federal prison on Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay; neither is ever seen again.
1938 – Adolf Hitler institutes the Cross of Honour of the German Mother.
1968 – Second Vatican Council: Official revocation of the Edict of Expulsion of Jews from Spain.^[13]
1978 – Cleveland, Ohio becomes the first major American city to default on its financial obligations since the Great Depression.

Friday December 17, 2021

Top news stories on this day

Here is what else happened on this day in History.

First Airplane Flies – HISTORY

1538 – Pope Paul III excommunicates Henry VIII of England.
1865 – First performance of the Unfinished Symphony by Franz Schubert.
1892 – First issue of Vogue is published.
1951 – The American Civil Rights Congress delivers “We Charge Genocide” to the United Nations.
1989 – The Simpsons premieres on television with the episode “Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire“.

Saturday December 18, 2021

Top news stories on this day

Here is what else happened on this day in History.

Mayflower Docks at Plymouth – HISTORY

1892 – Premiere performance of The Nutcracker by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky in Saint Petersburg, Russia.
1917 – The resolution containing the language of the Eighteenth Amendment to enact Prohibition is passed by the United States Congress.
1966 – Saturn‘s moon Epimetheus is discovered by astronomer Richard Walker.
2019 – The United States House of Representatives impeaches Donald Trump for the first time.

Sunday December 19, 2021

FOURTH SUNDAY OF ADVENT

Bishop Barron’s Homily of the Week

Top news stories on this day

Here is what else happened on this day in History.

President Clinton Impeached – HISTORY

1843- A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens is first published.
1924 – The last Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost is sold in London, England.
1924 – German serial killer Fritz Haarmann is sentenced to death for a series of murders.
1932 – BBC World Service begins broadcasting as the BBC Empire Service.

POPE FRANCIS’S FAMOUS LAST WEEK’S WORDS

Pope Francis approves further restrictions on Latin Mass to ensure adherence to Vatican II | National Catholic Reporter (ncronline.org)

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