We now move from ordinary time to a more extraordinary time as

LENT BEGINS

this past week.

Here’s What Happen Last Week and Year in Life.

Monday February 20, 2023

Day 51: Israel’s Worship of God — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 51: Unity of Soul and Body — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube

Here’s What Happen Last Week and Year in Life.

1685 – René-Robert Cavelier establishes Fort St. Louis at Matagorda Bay thus forming the basis for France’s claim to Texas.
1792 – The Postal Service Act, establishing the United States Post Office Department, is signed by United States President George Washington.
1798 – Louis-Alexandre Berthier removes Pope Pius VI from power.
1901 – The legislature of Hawaii Territory convenes for the first time.
1905 – The U.S. Supreme Court upholds the constitutionality of Massachusetts‘s mandatory smallpox vaccination program in Jacobson v. Massachusetts.^[
1933 – The U.S. Congress approves the Blaine Act to repeal federal Prohibition in the United States, sending the Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution to state ratifying conventions for approval.^[8]
1933 – Adolf Hitler secretly meets with German industrialists to arrange for financing of the Nazi Party‘s upcoming election campaign.
1935 – Caroline Mikkelsen becomes the first woman to set foot in Antarctica.
1943 – The Saturday Evening Post publishes the first of Norman Rockwell‘s Four Freedoms in support of United States President Franklin Roosevelt‘s 1941 State of the Union address theme of Four Freedoms.
1960-Shōji Kawamori (河森正治, Kawamori Shōji, is born. He made the designs for the original 28 figures of the Transformers (1984.
1962-John Glenn becomes first American to orbit Earth.
1985-Ireland allows sale of contraceptives.

2003-Rhode Island nightclub burns.

2023-Joe Biden makes a surprise trip to Kyiv today in his first trip to Ukraine.
Quote of the Day

function catholicGeek(��,❤️‍�) {@WRCatholicGeek (Feb 20,2013) One of the positives of post-Vat2 spirituality and canon law is that there isn’t a one-size-fits-all spirituality. The universal call to holiness includes enough room for us to find our own penances that work for us to become intentional disciples — if we would only do so! �

Fr. Casey, OFM@caseyofm (Feb 20,2013) Some people depend on having and vilifying enemies. They need an enemy.

Hate is easy. Love take humility, sacrifice, and a lot of patience.

Tuesday February 21, 2023

[Saint Peter Damian, Bishop and Doctor of the Church]

Mardi Gras (Mardi Gras)

Shrove Tuesday

This Day in History – What Happened Today – HISTORY

Day 52: Israel Continues to Journey — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 52: Male and Female — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube

Here’s What Happen Last Week and Year in Life.

1804 – The first self-propelling steam locomotive makes its outing at the Pen-y-Darren Ironworks in Wales.
1848 – Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels publish The Communist Manifesto.
1878 – The first telephone directory is issued in New Haven, Connecticut.
1885 – The newly completed Washington Monument is dedicated.
1925 – The New Yorker publishes its first issue.
1952 – The British government, under Winston Churchill, abolishes identity cards in the UK to “set the people free”.
1965 – Malcolm X is gunned down while giving a speech at the Audubon Ballroom in Harlem.
1972 – United States President Richard Nixon visits China to normalize Sino-American relations.
1972 – The Soviet unmanned spaceship Luna 20 lands on the Moon.
1975 – Watergate scandal: Former United States Attorney General John N. Mitchell and former White House aides H. R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman are sentenced to prison.
2023-The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department announced the arrest of a suspect, Carlos Medina, in the death of Catholic Bishop David O’Connell. Medina is the husband of the bishop’s housekeeper. (Newsweek)

Quote of the Day

Jen Fitz@JenFitz_Reads (February 21, 2023) Now entering that Mardi Gras tradition of wandering around scouting out anything I’m going to regret not having indulged before midnight and that long 40 days of trying to behave.

Wednesday February 22, 2023

Ash Wednesday

Pope Francis@Pontifex (February 22, 2023) Dear brothers and sisters, may the Holy Spirit sustain us this #Lent2023 in our ascent with Jesus. May we experience His divine splendour and thus, confirmed in faith, persevere in our journey with Him, the glory of His people and light of the nations. Lent 2023: Lenten Penance and the Synodal Journey | Francis (vatican.va)

Day 53: The Twelve Tribes of Israel — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 53: Man in Paradise — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube

Here’s What Happen Last Week and Year in Life.

1879 – In Utica, New York, Frank Woolworth opens the first of many of five-and-dime Woolworth stores.
1881 – Cleopatra’s Needle, a 3,500-year-old Ancient Egyptian obelisk is erected in Central Park, New York.
1885-Washington Monument dedicated
1889 – President Grover Cleveland signs a bill admitting North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana and Washington as U.S. states.
1945- Roger L. Schlaifer (born February 23, 1945) is born. He is responsible for his creative development and worldwide licensing of Cabbage Patch Kids(1983) and the name and works of Andy Warhol.
1973 – Cold War: Following President Richard Nixon‘s visit to the People’s Republic of China, the two countries agree to establish liaison offices.
1980-U.S. hockey team beats the Soviets in the “Miracle on Ice”.

1986-Edwin S. Lowe (1910 – February 23, 1986) dies. He is creator of the game Yatzi (1956)

2023–Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are not considering legal action after being mocked by South Park, U.S. royal commentator Kristen Meinzer told Newsweek, calling any such speculation “baseless and boring.” (Newsweek)

2023-Three Trump-supporting brothers are preparing to roll out their “plan C” to reinstate him as president after the United States Supreme Court once again declined to hear their case.

Quote of the Day

R Bratten Weiss@Prof_RBW (February 22, 2023) It is so trippy when you go outside on a warm rainy night, with a flashlight, and see all the thousands and thousands of nightcrawlers scooting back into the earth as soon as the light touches them.

There are a lot of worms out there folks.

Cecilia Cicone@cecsquared (February 22, 2023)

Priest: You are now invited to share your own intentions.

Me: For the conversion of the guy in my building who never picks up after his french bulldog even tho he’s tiny and poop bags are cheap.

Priest: …

Congregation: …

Me: WE PRAY TO THE LORD

Thursday February 23, 2023

Saint Polycarp, Bishop and Martyr

Bishop Thomas Tobin@ThomasJTobin1(February 23,, 2023) The Word of God offers an important exhortation today at the very beginning of Lent and surely for our times: “I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse. Choose life, then, that you and your descendants may live.” (Dt 30:19)

Day 54: The Tribe of Levi — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 54: The Fall of Man — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube

Here’s What Happen Last Week and Year in Life.

1455 – Traditionally the date of publication of the Gutenberg Bible, the first Western book printed with movable type.
1763 – Berbice slave uprising in Guyana: The first major slave revolt in South America.
820 – Cato Street Conspiracy: A plot to murder all the British cabinet ministers is exposed and the conspirators arrested.
1836 – Texas Revolution: The Siege of the Alamo (prelude to the Battle of the Alamo) begins in San Antonio, Texas.
1861 – President-elect Abraham Lincoln arrives secretly in Washington, D.C., after the thwarting of an alleged assassination plot in Baltimore, Maryland.
1870 – Reconstruction Era: Post-U.S. Civil War military control of Mississippi ends and it is readmitted to the Union.
1883 – Alabama becomes the first U.S. state to enact an anti-trust law.
1903 – Cuba leases Guantánamo Bay to the United States “in perpetuity”.
1905 – Chicago attorney Paul Harris and three other businessmen meet for lunch to form the Rotary Club, the world’s first service club.
1917 – First demonstrations in Saint Petersburg, Russia. The beginning of the February Revolution (March 8 in the Gregorian calendar).
1980 – Iran hostage crisis: Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini states that Iran’s parliament will decide the fate of the American embassy hostages.
2023-At least two have died, and six others have been injured following a coal mine collapse in Inner Mongolia, China. Search and rescue operations continue as more than 50 people remain trapped. (Newsweek)

Quote of the Day

mary clare sheaf@ClareLoCoco (February 23, 2023) Woke up with the sense that today was a significant day. Couldn’t recall why. It just occurred to me that Feb. 23 is the birthday of my 3rd grade best friend (whom I haven’t spoken with in years).

It’s insane how information you memorize in childhood is burned into your brain.

Friday February 24, 2023

Day 55: Obedience to God — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 55: The Fall of the Angels — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube

Song of the Week

Here’s What Happen Last Week and Year in Life.

1582 – With the papal bull Inter gravissimas, Pope Gregory XIII announces the Gregorian calendar.
1854 – A Penny Red with perforations becomes the first perforated postage stamp to be officially issued for distribution.
1863 – Arizona is organized as a United States territory.
1868 – Andrew Johnson becomes the first President of the United States to be impeached by the United States House of Representatives. He is later acquitted in the Senate.
1920 – The Nazi Party (NSDAP) was founded by Adolf Hitler in the Hofbräuhaus beer hall in Munich, Germany
1949 The Bumper-WAC reached an altitude of 393 kilometres (244 mi), becoming the first human-made object to enter space, according to NASA, although V-2 Rocket MW 18014 crossed the Kármán line earlier, in 1944
1976 – The 1976 constitution of Cuba is formally proclaimed.
2008 – Fidel Castro retires as the President of Cuba and the Council of Ministers after 32 years. He remains as head of the Communist Party for another three years.
2022 – Days after recognising Donetsk and Luhansk as independent states, Russian president Vladimir Putin orders a full scale invasion of Ukraine.
2023-AI-generated fiction is flooding literary magazines — but not fooling anyone – The Verge

Quotes of the Day

Bishop Down Umber@BishopUmbers (Feb 24,2023) Train delay due to WWII bomb found between stations.

JD Flynn@jdflynn (Feb 24,2023)

The church in which I grew up only bought Hydrox, never Oreo.

This is a mystery to me.

Saturday February 25, 2023

Day 56: Jealous Husbands — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 56: Man’s First Sin — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube

Here’s What Happen Last Week and Year in Life.

1828-John Quincy Adams’ son marries relative at the White House.
1870-First African American congressman sworn in.
1932 – Hitler, having been stateless for seven years, obtains German citizenship when he is appointed a Brunswick state official by Dietrich Klagges, a fellow Nazi. As a result, Hitler is able to run for Reichspräsident in the 1932 election.
1940 – The first ice hockey game is televised in the United States, the New York Rangers vs Montreal Canadiens, from Madison Square Garden on W2XBS-TV.
1956 – In his speech On the Cult of Personality and Its Consequences, Nikita Khrushchev, leader of the Soviet Union, denounces Stalin.
1964-Young Muhammad Ali knocks out Sonny Liston for first world title.
1986 – People Power Revolution: President of the Philippines Ferdinand Marcos flees the nation after 20 years of rule; Corazon Aquino becomes the Philippines‘ first female president.
Quotes of the Day

Catholic Young Earth Creationist (Feb 24, 2023) People don’t realize how deep a lot of the dinosaur hoax goes.

Mike Lewis@mfjlewis (February 25, 2023) You do realize that your rejection of basic scientific knowledge does not help your credibility in other areas, correct?

How common is dinosaur denialism? This concept is new to me.
I thought YECs believed that dinosaurs are in the Bible (in the book of Job or something) and existed concurrently with early humans 5k-6k years ago, like the Flintstones.
I could see this premise utilized in a no-budget alternative to the Jurassic movies.
Maybe a straight-to-video sequel to the National Treasure movies, starring Kirk Cameron in the Nic Cage role?

Epigonias@epigonias (February 25, 2023) Kirk Cameron has to break into the Smithsonian to steal a banana shaped Flintstones car with a Crocoduck skull on its hood.

Sunday February 26, 2023

Saint of the Day

WinCalendar: Calendars, Holidays, Days and Today – EU

This Day in History – What Happened Today – HISTORY

Day 57: Hear, O Israel — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 57: Consequences of Adam’s Sin — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube

Here’s What Happen Last Week and Year in Life.

1775 – The British East India Company factory on Balambangan Island is destroyed by Moro pirates.
1870 – The Beach Pneumatic Transit in New York City, intending as a demonstration for a subway line opens.
1876 – Japan and Korea sign the Treaty of Kangwha, which grants Japanese citizens extraterritoriality rights in Korea, opens three Korean ports to Japanese trade, and ends Korea’s status as a tributary state of Qing dynasty China.
1914 – HMHS Britannic, sister to the RMS Titanic, is launched at Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast.
1919 – President Woodrow Wilson signs an act of Congress establishing the Grand Canyon National Park.
1929 – President Calvin Coolidge signs legislation establishing the 96,000 acres (390 km²) Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming.
1935 – Adolf Hitler orders the Luftwaffe to be re-formed, violating the provisions of the Treaty of Versailles.
1935 – Robert Watson-Watt carries out a demonstration near Daventry which leads directly to the development of radar in the United Kingdom.
1936 – In the February 26 Incident, young Japanese military officers attempt to stage a coup against the government.
1993 – World Trade Center bombing: In New York City, a truck bomb parked below the North Tower of the World Trade Center explodes, killing six and injuring over a thousand people.
2008 – The New York Philharmonic performs in Pyongyang, North Korea; this is the first event of its kind to take place in North Korea.
2012 – Seventeen-year-old African-American student Trayvon Martin is shot to death by neighborhood watch coordinator George Zimmerman in an altercation in Sanford, Florida.
2021 – A total of 279 female students aged between 10 and 17 are kidnapped by bandits in the Zamfara kidnapping in Zamfara State, Nigeria.
2023-Media drop Dilbert after creator’s Black ‘hate group’ remark | AP News
After the Roald Dahl text editing controversy that erupted in recent days, it is now the turn of Ian Fleming’s James Bond novels to be rewritten.

Quote of the Day

The River Shannon@Shonomatopoeia (February 26, 2023)
Tonight I mixed up Aragorn and Aragog while playing fishbowl and I feel like half of my friends on here would have been so disappointed in me

I’m sorry

Fr. Mike Palmer, CSC@mppcsc (February 26,2023)
“Greetings, Mr. ‘Underhill’.

My name is Aragog, son of —

would you please stop screaming —

son of Arathorn.

You can no longer wait for the wizard.”