Last Week In Life:

December 6 , 2021-December 12 , 2021

STUDY EDITION

In which I explain each section of this long weekly post. So long that my wife will never read it. First off the purpose of these weekly posts is to keep a record of what is happening in the world. It has gone through many transformations since I began in January this past year. I think I may want to tweek it again as it seems sort of stale. In the beginning it had a little more panaze. Of course back then, I had more energy, more time to think and work on it. Now I’m working more and am home less.

I was thinking that maybe in 2022 I won’t do it anymore as it gets tiring to do this week after week. It’s especially tiring if nobody besides myself is reading this. Maybe I’ll do a month in review instead. Or post interesting things as they come up. I don’t know. I want to do something different. I want to take my writing in a new direction. I’m not sure which direction yet.

But seeing I started this in 2021, I’m going to at least finish out the year. Even if the quality isn’t as good as it once was or could be. I had a goal,darn it. That goal was to write a weekly review, and I will see it through.

The one part of this post that I really try to make somewhat more than just a list to look at, and to add some real quality to is…

Last Week’s SPECTACULAR STORY OF WEEK

In the middle of the night when I couldn’t sleep, I decided to browse Twitter and find interesting tweets that I could share with you all as the Spectacular Story of the Week. My brain is tired from working from 9 something to 7 something most days and I didn’t think I had the mental energy to construct very exquisite prose about any particular Catholic, historical,newsworthy or entertaining topic. So sort of a lazy unoriginal post, but I need to post something in this section. It’s not like anyone will read or comment on this anyway.

Here it is. Sweet

Some Sweet Last Week’s Tweets.

2021 gives us two acclaimed medieval dramas, based on classic English poetic works, full of surreal imagery, witches, ghosts, temptation, and ambitions for the throne gone wrong, bookended by beheadings and a crown fallen to the ground. Both from A24, and they share Ralph Ineson. Also, the source material in both cases has significant Christian themes, and the filmmaker adapting the work was raised in an academic religious household. And his interests include mythology and religion. (Too much of a stretch?)
– Steven D. Greydanus@DecentFilms

Maybe the grass is greener on the other side because there’s more manure…

Just saying.

Fr. Casey, OFM@caseyofm

I wonder how many of my poorly-worded tweets were because I was surrounded by screaming children as I was trying to think through a sentence.

I bet it’s at least 70%

-Steve Skojec @SteveSkojec

Bleacher Report

I’m watching football & I found out Survivor is still a show. (I watched it a bit when it started but haven’t seen it since I entered religious life in 2001 & I just assumed it would have fizzled out by now.)-Fr Matthew P. Schneider LC @FrMatthewLC

God: you’re a duck.

Duck:

God: you’re a duck.

Duck:

God: you’re a duck.

Duck:

God: you’re a goose!

Goose: [starts chasing God around the circle while everyone cheers him on].

God Creating Animals @GodAnimalBooks

#talkedtotheboss He said to remember that you are necessary. You were made for so much more than you think. Take on His mind, embrace His heart & fill the world around you with love & light. Be an answer to prayers. Fr. Joseph Krupp@Joeinblack

pic by@laurekrupp instagr.am/p/CXV9Rmvr-LO/

St Nicholas was a Catholic Bishop in the 4th century. He’s dead and is now in Heaven. Santa Claus lives at North Pole and brings me stuff for Christmas. Definitely not the same person. Bishops in Heaven never stop by with presents. Santa is awesome but not a Bishop. Boom.-Lino Rulli@linorulli

my grandpa: i was born in 1937

me, nodding sagely: the year The Hobbit was published

grandpa: the what now

–tea with tolkien@TeawithTolkien

Romantic imaginary scenario: we’re both reading in the library and I show you a page from my book.

You show me a page from yours.

I go to flip the page in your book and you grab my hand to stop me.

Suddenly we’re holding hands and can’t ignore our feelings for each other

The Art Gremlin@madelynnotmadi

we are the grand daughters of the grandmas your reindeer couldn’t run over

-matt@nosourceofhoney

My 5 year old daughter: “it’s not really Miss Universe because they are all from planet earth”….

-A faithful servant@VConquisitor

Last Week’s Other Stories, Articles and Things

This is where I highlight some other interesting articles or videos that I ran across that I think people should know about. I want to keep this long post as short as possible so I add headlines you can click on. Maybe in the future I will add commentary. But for now, in this post, you can click on the link and read more about the story I have selected for you to look at.

3 Kidnapped Missionaries Freed by Haiti Gang, 12 More Remain | News & Reporting | Christianity Today

Dorothy Day’s cause for canonization enters final phase (aleteia.org)

Catholics killed after bus plunges into river in Kenya | Catholic News Agency

Scientists reconstructed the face of St. Nicholas – here’s what they found | Catholic News Agency

Tito Edwards – NCRegister The Best In Catholic Blogging

Each week I try to highlight the best Catholic Podcast on the planet and what they talked about on their last episode.

This Week on

Jimmy Akin’s Mysterious World

MYS184: As we recall the 80th anniversary of Pearl Harbor, Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli discuss allegations that the US had advance warning of the Japanese attack or even that President Roosevelt provoked the attack to end American isolationism. What is the truth?

Countdown to Pearl Harbor? (FDR, Advance Knowledge)

FEAST DAYS ,HOLIDAYS AND LAST WEEK IN HISTORY

What’s listed below are some of the top news stories that happen on a particular day followed by interesting tidbits of historical trivia that occurred on that day as well. This is the record of events you and I may want to look back on at some point, so we can remember history as it was lived out in this section of time.

WinCalendar: Calendars, Holidays, Days & Today

Monday December 6, 2021

[Saint Nicholas, Bishop]

The 9th and last day of Hanukkah (Jewish Observance).

Top news stories on this day

In the future I may be more selective of the stories I list. Perhaps I will give commentary.

Here is what else happened on this day in History.

I go through the Wikipedia page for the date listed and pick out the most interesting stories. The only months I haven’t done a day in history for are for January and February. And the rest of December. I may have to continue this section for those two months. Then it will be weird if I don’t continue afterwards, as I’ve done 2 months. Maybe I’ll incorporate every historical thing I’ve written about. But that would be a lot of work. I don’t know. Here is this weeks history of the week.

The Washington Monument Is Completed – HISTORY

963 – Pope Leo VIII is appointed to the office of Protonotary and begins his papacy as antipope of Rome.
1492 – After exploring island of Cuba for gold, surmising it for Japan, Columbus lands on island similar to Castile, naming it Hispaniola.
1790 – The U.S. Congress moves from New York City to Philadelphia.
1865 – Georgia ratifies the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
1897 – London becomes the world’s first city to host licensed taxicabs.
1904 – Theodore Roosevelt articulated his “Corollary” to the Monroe Doctrine, stating that the U.S. would intervene in the Western Hemisphere should Latin American governments prove incapable or unstable.
1973 – The Twenty-fifth Amendment: The United States House of Representatives votes 387–35 to confirm Gerald Ford as Vice President of the United States. (On November 27, the Senate confirmed him 92–3.)
1999 – A&M Records, Inc. v. Napster, Inc.: The Recording Industry Association of America sues the peer-to-peer file-sharing service Napster, alleging copyright infringement.
2006 – NASA reveals photographs taken by Mars Global Surveyor suggesting the presence of liquid water on Mars.
2017 – Donald Trump‘s administration officially announces the recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.

Tuesday December 7, 2021

Saint Ambrose, Bishop and Doctor of the Church

Top news stories on this day

Here is what else happened on this day in History.

Pearl Harbor Bombed – HISTORY

1842 – First concert of the New York Philharmonic, founded by Ureli Corelli Hill.
1930 – W1XAV in Boston, Massachusetts telecasts video from the CBS radio orchestra program, The Fox Trappers. The telecast also includes the first television advertisement in the United States, for I.J. Fox Furriers, which also sponsored the radio show.
1965 – Pope Paul VI and Patriarch Athenagoras I simultaneously revoke mutual excommunications that had been in place since 1054.
1972 – Apollo 17, the last Apollo moon mission, is launched. The crew takes the photograph known as The Blue Marble as they leave the Earth.
1982 – In Texas, Charles Brooks, Jr., becomes the first person to be executed by lethal injection in the United States.
1995 – The Galileo spacecraft arrives at Jupiter, a little more than six years after it was launched by Space Shuttle Atlantis during Mission STS-34.

Wednesday December 8, 2021

THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY
(Patronal Feastday of the United States of America)

I never became a Catholic because of the virtues of bishops or priests or laity and therefore will not leave the Catholic communion because of their sins. I’m here for Jesus and since he promises to be with us to the end of the age, here I stay. There’s only one sinless member of the Catholic communion and I head off to Mass to honor her in half an hour. The rest of us are a pack of chuckleheads and always have been.

Immaculate Mary, pray for us chuckleheads who have recourse to thee!-Mark Shea on Facebook

Top news stories on this day

Image of the glasses worn by John Lennon on the day he was shot and killed in 1980.

Here is what else happened on this day in History.

John Lennon is Shot – HISTORY

1854 – In his Apostolic constitution Ineffabilis Deus, Pope Pius IX proclaims the dogmatic definition of Immaculate Conception, which holds that the Blessed Virgin Mary was conceived free of Original Sin.
1864 – Pope Pius IX promulgates the encyclical Quanta cura and its appendix, the Syllabus of Errors, outlining the authority of the Catholic Church and condemning various liberal ideas.
1941 – World War II: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt declares December 7 to be “a date which will live in infamy“, after which the U.S. declares war on Japan.
1953 – U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower delivers his “Atoms for Peace” speech, which leads to an American program to supply equipment and information on nuclear power to schools, hospitals, and research institutions around the world.
1955 – The Flag of Europe is adopted by Council of Europe.
1990 – The Galileo spacecraft flies past Earth for the first time.
2013 – Metallica performs a show in Antarctica, making them the first band to perform on all seven continents.
2019 – First confirmed case of COVID-19 in China.

Thursday December 9, 2021

[Saint Juan Diego Cuauhtlatoatzin]

Top news stories on this day

Here is what else happened on this day in History.

U.S. Marines Storm Mogadishu, Somalia – HISTORY

1531 – The Virgin of Guadalupe first appears to Juan Diego at Tepeyac, Mexico City.
1851 – The first YMCA in North America is established in Montreal.
1868 – The first traffic lights are installed, outside the Palace of Westminster in London. Resembling railway signals, they use semaphore arms and are illuminated at night by red and green gas lamps.
1905 – In France, the law separating church and state is passed.
1946 – The “Subsequent Nuremberg trials” begin with the “Doctors’ trial“, prosecuting physicians and officers alleged to be involved in Nazi human experimentation and mass murder under the guise of euthanasia.
1950 – Cold War: Harry Gold is sentenced to 30 years in jail for helping Klaus Fuchs pass information about the Manhattan Project to the Soviet Union. His testimony is later instrumental in the prosecution of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg.
1960 – The first episode of Coronation Street, the world’s longest-running television soap opera, is broadcast in the United Kingdom.
1965 – Kecksburg UFO incident: A fireball is seen from Michigan to Pennsylvania; witnesses report something crashing in the woods near Pittsburgh.
2017 – The Marriage Amendment Bill receives royal assent and comes into effect, making Australia the 26th country to legalize same-sex marriage.

Friday December 10, 2021

[Our Lady of Loreto]

Top news stories on this day

Here is what else happened on this day in History.

First Nobel Prizes awarded – HISTORY

1508 – The League of Cambrai is formed by Pope Julius II, Louis XII of France, Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor and Ferdinand II of Aragon as an alliance against Venice.
1520 – Martin Luther burns his copy of the papal bull Exsurge Domine outside Wittenberg‘s Elster Gate.
1684 – Isaac Newton‘s derivation of Kepler’s laws from his theory of gravity, contained in the paper De motu corporum in gyrum, is read to the Royal Society by Edmond Halley.
1768 – The first edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica is published.
1799 – France adopts the metre as its official unit of length.
1817 – Mississippi becomes the 20th U.S. state.
1906 – U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his role in the mediation of the Russo-Japanese War, becoming the first American to win a Nobel Prize in any field.
1948 – The Human Rights Convention is signed by the United Nations.
1993 – The last shift leaves Wearmouth Colliery in Sunderland. The closure of the 156-year-old pit marks the end of the old County Durham coalfield, which had been in operation since the Middle Ages.
2017 – ISIL is defeated in Iraq.

Saturday December 11, 2021

[Our Lady of Loreto]

Top news stories on this day

Here is what else happened on this day in History.

Edward VIII Abdicates – HISTORY

361 – Julian enters Constantinople as sole Emperor of the Roman Empire.
1816 – Indiana becomes the 19th U.S. state.
1925 – Roman Catholic papal encyclical Quas primas introduces the Feast of Christ the King.
1934 – Bill Wilson, co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous, takes his last drink and enters treatment for the final time.
1972 – Apollo 17 becomes the sixth and final Apollo mission to land on the Moon.

Sunday December 12, 2021

Our Lady of Guadalupe

I always give you a chance to hear one of the greatest preachers of the 21st century give his week homily on the Gospel readings for the particular Sunday in which he is giving it.

Bishop Barron’s Homily of the Week

Top news stories on this day

Here is what else happened on this day in History.

Da Vinci notebook sells for over $5M – HISTORY

1917 – Father Edward J. Flanagan founds Boys Town as a farm village for wayward boys.
1935 – Lebensborn Project, a Nazi reproduction program, is founded by Heinrich Himmler.
1941 – The Holocaust: Adolf Hitler declares the imminent extermination of the Jews at a meeting in the Reich Chancellery.
1945 – The People’s Republic of Korea is outlawed in the South, by order of the United States Army Military Government in Korea.
2000 – The United States Supreme Court releases its decision in Bush v. Gore.
2012 – North Korea successfully launches its first satellite, Kwangmyŏngsŏng-3 Unit 2.
2015 – The Paris Agreement relating to United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change is adopted

I think it is important to keep track of what the Pope is up to, as he is the visible head of our church.

POPE FRANCIS’S FAMOUS LAST WEEK’S WORDS

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I started this section with the idea of highlighting some charitable organization every week. So far I’ve been highlighting the same guy whom I’m FB friends who always needs help with his orphans in Africa. I want to do more, but that would be a lot of work I don’t think I have the energy to do right now. I think that I will have this become an occasional occaring piece if I continue this week in review in 2022. I still hope that you all can find

A Chance To Do A Work Of Mercy

Help bring clean and safe water to every person on the planet | charity: water (charitywater.org) Click on here if you want to donate.

charity: water is a non-profit organization bringing clean and safe drinking water to people in developing countries

Tunes I Came Across Last Week

They didn’t necessarily come out last week.

Trying to find new music every week that I might actually listen to in the future is hard. Music is more diverse than movies and TV. The lists are not as precise and widespread. So this feature will be an occuring one as well. his is why I don’t always post what came out that week, cause sometimes I miss stuff that comes out that week.I usually collect all the songs I post in this section and give it, it’s own post every month or two. But for this week here is a new song I discovered. Somehow I did something above and it erased everything I original Posted. So I had to post it again. Annoying. But that is writing.

Musical Education

Book Titles I Came Across Last Week

They didn’t necessarily come out last week.

Do to some formatting issue in Word Press I can’t make this title bigger. I should go to bed as it is 3:12 AM and I shouldn’t try to figure it out to fix it right now.

Trying to find new books to feature every week that I might actually read in the future is hard. Book lists are many and no two are alike. This is why I don’t always post what came out that week, cause sometimes I miss stuff that comes out that week. I usually collect all the recommended books I post in this section and give it, it’s own post every month or two. So this feature will be an occurring one as well. But for this week here is a new book I discovered.

The Fossil: Science Fiction Thriller (Secrets Of Mars Book 1) by Joshua T. Calvert

The Fossil: Science Fiction Thriller (Secrets Of Mars Book 1) by [Joshua T. Calvert]

The Winter People by Jennifer McMahon

The Winter People by [Jennifer McMahon]

New and Old Movies/TV I Came Across Last Week

Movie and TV release dates are the easiest to find out. I have always looked at them since I was young. I like to know what potential entertainment I might want to watch at some point. I usually make a whole post dedicated just to this one topic every month. I may rethink how I do it in the coming year. For now, for this week… here is what is coming out this week. Linked below this description is the release date for everything I found interesting coming out in December.

No Way Home For December 2021 Movies | Mark Wilson (patheos.com)

Monday, Dec. 6
David and the Elves, Netflix

Coming Out Dec 10, 2021

Being the Ricardos Amazon Studios Nationwide

West Side Story Nationwide

The Expanse: Season 6 (2021) Amazon Prime Video

Saturday, Dec. 11
The Real Charlie Chaplin (2021) 8 p.m., Showtime [movie]

Thursday, Dec. 16

Station Eleven: Season 1 (2021) HBO Max

Piffy Quality Quotes

of the Week

I try to post funny, snappy, and interesting quotes in this section. I may leave it as it is, as it gives a little humor to this section. But maybe it will be occurring. If I find something I post it, and if I don’t I don’t.