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

Monday March 6, 2023

Day 65: Revolt Against Moses — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 65: Why the Word Became Flesh — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube

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

On a day A lot of interesting things just happen to occur on this particular day we are talking about.

Comings and Goings….

1475 – Michelangelo, painter of the Sistine Chapel and sculptor of the David statue (and inspiration for Ninja Turtles (d. 1564) is born.
1619– Cyrano de Bergerac, French author and playwright (d. 1655) is born.
1888 – Louisa May Alcott, Author of Little Women (b. 1832) dies.
1906– Lou Costello, The second part of the comedy team Abbott and Costello (d. 1959) is born.
1944 – Mary Wilson, founding member of The Supremes (d. 2021) is born. My oldest sister has the same name.
1973– Pearl S. Buck, author of ‘The Good Earth’ and Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1892) dies.
1982– Ayn Rand, author of Atlas Shrugged (b. 1905) dies.
2004– Hercules, American wrestler (b. 1957) dies.

News of the World

1820– The Missouri Compromise is signed into law by President James Monroe. The compromise allows Missouri to enter the Union as a slave state, brings Maine into the Union as a free state, and makes the rest of the northern part of the Louisiana Purchase territory slavery-free.
1836– Texas Revolution: Battle of the Alamo: After a thirteen-day siege by an army of 3,000 Mexican troops, the 187 Texas volunteers, including frontiersman Davy Crockett and colonel Jim Bowie, defending the Alamo are killed and the fort is captured.
1857– The Supreme Court of the United States rules 7–2 in the Dred Scott v. Sandford case that the Constitution does not confer citizenship on black people.
1869– Dmitri Mendeleev presents the first periodic table to the Russian Chemical Society.
1933– Great Depression: President Franklin D. Roosevelt declares a “bank holiday“, closing all U.S. banks and freezing all financial transactions.
1943– Norman Rockwell published Freedom from Want in The Saturday Evening Post with a matching essay by Carlos Bulosan as part of the Four Freedoms
1964– Nation of Islam leader Elijah Muhammad officially gives boxing champion Cassius Clay the name Muhammad Ali.
1967– Cold War: Joseph Stalin‘s daughter Svetlana Alliluyeva defects to the United States.
1975– For the first time the Zapruder film of the assassination of John F. Kennedy is shown in motion to a national TV audience by Robert J. Groden and Dick Gregory.
2018– Forbes names Jeff Bezos as the world’s richest person, for the first time, at $112 billion net worth.^[12]
2023- Lynyrd Skynyrd founding member Gary Rossington dies at 71
Quotes of the Day

I hope you had a good day today.

Not in the sense that things went the way you planned, people were affirming, and you were happy

but in the sense that you have grown in holiness and closer to the day of salvation. Sorrow and tribulation can be the best of gifts sometimes.

Fr. Casey, OFM@caseyofm (March 6, 2023)

If you were told that you couldn’t get into heaven until you

dined with someone you despised and apologized for hating them, even though they did horrible things to you

would you do it?

Thing is, that’s exactly what God requires.

Love your enemies isn’t a suggestion.

Tuesday March 7, 2023

[Saints Perpetua and Felicity, Martyrs]

My Sister Patty’s Birthday

Day 66: Forbidden Forms of Worship — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 66: True God and True Man — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube

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

1724 – Pope Innocent XIII (b. 1655)
1876 – Alexander Graham Bell is granted a patent for an invention he calls the “telephone“.
1965 – Bloody Sunday: A group of 600 civil rights marchers is brutally attacked by state and local police in Selma, Alabama.
1986 – Challenger Disaster: Divers from the USS Preserver locate the crew cabin of Challenger on the ocean floor. 1843 – Marriott Henry Brosius, American senator (d. 1901)
2023- Ben Savage, star of ’90s sitcom ‘Boy Meets World,’ is running for Congress
2023-Can insects have culture? Puzzle-solving bumblebees show it’s possible

Quote of the Day

Timothy HJ Nerozzi 庭夢@TimothyNerozzi (Mar 7,2023) Novus Ordo is valid. TLM is valid. Neither is inherently better or more valid than the other. They should both be available, respected, and treated with reverence. Outside of that, your preference is up to you. Nothing will get better until everyone accepts this.

Wednesday March 8, 2023

[Saint John of God, Religious

Day 67: God’s Justice and Refuge — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 67: The Humanity and Divinity of Christ — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube

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

1775 – An anonymous writer, thought by some to be Thomas Paine, publishes “African Slavery in America”, the first article in the American colonies calling for the emancipation of slaves and the abolition of slavery.
1817- The New York Stock Exchange is formed.
1859 – Kenneth Grahame, author of The Wind in the WIllows (d. 1932) is born.
1921-Alan Hale Jr. AKA. the Skipper from Gilligan’s Island is born. (1921-1990)
1979 – Images taken by Voyager I proved the existence of volcanoes on Io, a moon of Jupiter.
1999 – NY Yankee baseball player Joe DiMaggio, (b. 1914) dies.
2014 – In one of aviation’s greatest mysteries, Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, carrying a total of 239 people, disappears en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.^[35] The fate of the flight remains unknown.
2023- A Texas woman raised an alligator as a pet for 20 years. Now it’s been seized

Quote of the Day

Mark Shea on FB (March 8, 2023) To get a dispensation to eat meat on St. Patrick’s Day and then to waste it on corned beef is a shocking crime against common decency. BLTs all round!

Thursday March 9, 2023

Saint Frances of Rome, Religious]

Day 68: The Waters of Meribah — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 68: The Mystery of the Incarnation — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube

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

1841 – The U.S. Supreme Court rules in the United States v. The Amistad case that captive Africans who had seized control of the ship carrying them had been taken into slavery illegally.
1842 –The first documented discovery of gold in California occurs at Rancho San Francisco, six years before the California Gold Rush.
1959 – The Barbie doll makes its debut.
1985-First Adopt-a-Highway sign goes upt the American International Toy Fair in New York.
1996 –Legendary comedian George Burns, (b. 1896) dies at 100.
2023-Chaim Topol, the Israeli actor known for Tevye of ‘Fiddler on the Roof,’ has died

Peter T Chattaway@ptchat (March 9, 2023) RIP Topol (1935-2023), the star of my favorite musical of all time (1971’s Fiddler on the Roof), the first James Bond movie I ever saw (1981’s For Your Eyes Only), and 1979’s The New Media Bible: Book of Genesis (he played Abraham).

✨natalie✨@nataliepucillo (March 9, 2023) Absolutely stunning offering from Minneapolis St Paul for survivors of abuse who crave the Eucharist but are held back by liturgy-adjacent trauma

Quote of the Day

Pope Francis@Pontifex (Mar 9, 2023) Almsgiving, practised far from the spotlight, gives peace and hope to the heart. It reveals to us the beauty of giving, which then becomes receiving, and thus enables us to discover a precious secret: our hearts find more joy in giving than in receiving (Acts 20:35). #Lent

Friday March 10, 2023

[USA: Saint Katharine Drexel, Virgin]

Song of the Week

Day 69: The Bronze Serpent — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 69: Born of the Virgin Mary — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube

Official Charts – Home of the Official UK Top 40 Charts

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

1876 – The first successful test of a telephone is made by Alexander Graham Bell.
1922 – Mahatma Gandhi is arrested in India, tried for sedition, and sentenced to six years in prison, only to be released after nearly two years for an appendicitis operation.
1977 -Astronomers discover the rings of Uranus.
2006 – The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter arrives at Mars.
2017 – The Nintendo Switch releases worldwide.
2023- Iran and Saudi Arabia agree to resume relations after years of tension

Quote of the Day

Beginnings

Emily Katherine@EmilyKath319 (March 10, 2023) The best part of being newly postpartum is getting “trapped” under a sleeping baby.
Oh no I can’t do the dishes because the baby is asleep and won’t transfer
Guess I’ll just have to stay here and cuddle this cute little squish cuz I can’t do anything else
Oh nooooooo

Endings

Steve Skojec@SteveSkojec (March 10,2023) Went to a funeral today for one of my best friends’ grandmother. She was 101, and from just 3 children, she had 109 great grandchildren. Something like 70 family members were with her as she was dying.

That’s one hell of a legacy.

Movies That Opened

65

DangerVille@DangervilleTeam (Mar 10, 2023) I actually had fun with 65. It’s a fairly straightforward film with some great action, tension and emotional moments. Most the dinosaurs are actually fine design wise, although there is one abomination I never want to lay eyes on again. Its the definition of decent, a solid 7/10.

Scream VI

Champions PG-13
Involves a stubborn minor league basketball coach who is forced to coach a Special Olympics team when he is sentenced to community service.

Saturday March 11, 2023

Saint Casimir

Day 70: The Offense of Balaam — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 70: The Immaculate Conception — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube

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

1861 – American Civil War: The Constitution of the Confederate States of America is adopted.
1893 – Wanda Gág, American author and illustrator (d. 1946) is born.
1977 – The 1977 Hanafi Siege: Around 150 hostages held in Washington, D.C., by Hanafi Muslims are set free after ambassadors from three Islamic nations join negotiations.
1985 – Mikhail Gorbachev is elected to the position of General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, making Gorbachev the USSR’s de facto, and last, head of state.
2011 – An earthquake measuring 9.0 in magnitude strikes 130 km (81 mi) east of Sendai, Japan, triggering a tsunami killing thousands of people. This event also triggered the second largest nuclear accident in history, and one of only two events to be classified as a Level 7 on the International Nuclear Event Scale.^[
2021 – US President Joe Biden signs the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan into law.
2023-Pope Francis: Gender ideology is one of the most dangerous ideological colonizations today | Catholic News Agency

Quote of the Day

Patrick Neve@catholicpat (March 11, 2023)

Even though Twitter is newer, books are more advanced. A book is two adults having a conversation. Twitter is two cavemen hitting each other with sticks.

Sunday March 12, 2023

Day 71: The Source of the Law — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 71: Mary’s Virginity — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube

Father Vu@VudatNation (March 12, 2023) Friends how was your Sunday? I pray that you & your family (loved ones) were able to attend the holy sacrifice of the Mass today or last night. Lent is a season of conversion. No matter what we have done or failed to do—our Lord is always there to wait for us. Let’s return to Him

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

1622, Pope Gregory XV formally recognized the holiness of Sts. Teresa of Avila, Ignatius of Loyola, Isidore of Madrid (also known as Isidore the Farmer), Francis Xavier and Philip Neri.
1912 – The Girl Guides (later renamed the Girl Scouts of the USA) are founded in the United States.^[8]
1913 – The future capital of Australia is officially named Canberra.^[9]
1918 – Moscow becomes the capital of Russia again after Saint Petersburg held this status for most of the period since 1713.
1930 – Mahatma Gandhi begins the Salt March, a 200-mile march to the sea to protest the British monopoly on salt in India.
2020 – The United States suspends travel from Europe due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
2023-Pence says Trump ‘endangered my family’ on Jan. 6 | AP News

Adam Lin Cooper@AdamLinCooper1 (March 12, 2023) “President Trump was wrong. I had no right to overturn the election and his reckless words endangered my family and everyone at the Capitol that day, and I know that history will hold Donald Trump accountable.” —Mike Pence, 3/11/23

Quote of the Day

Patrick Neve@catholicpat (March 12, 2023) Voting as a Catholic is a weird experience. “Hm. Do I want to be shot in the left foot or the right foot?”

Jolz �@Jolz_Aust (March 12, 2023) Today, during the homily, the priest mentioned that Jesus didn’t expect the Samaritan woman to decide on the spot whether or not she wanted to follow him. He gave her space to think about it. This hit close to my heart. I’ve been asking God to allow me space over the past month.

Ryan Grant: Radical Tobacco Curator �@chesterbelloc3 (March 12, 2023) At 1:15 pm today, my wife, Sarah Grant, went to her eternal reward. After receiving Extreme Unction and the Apostolic Pardon from Fr. Terra, FSSP, we prayed a divine mercy chaplet. When it ended, she breathed her last. Please keep my family in your prayers.

OSCARS 2023

A lot of people love to hate on the Oscars and brag about how it sucks and their not going to watch it. I love movies and like to see who is nominated, who won and I don’t have cable and so for the first time in years I actually watched it as I signed up for Live Streaming. Free Trial. I then canceled my subscription as I only watch streaming channels and maybe DVD’s from the library. I think the Oscars is a good opportunity to talk about movies and cultures, story telling and an opportunity for applying catechetical lessons from certain nominated films. Films in Red are what I’ve seen.

Andrew Petiprin@AndrewPetiprin: (March 12, 2023)
My wife thinks this #Oscars

is going so smoothly because a chatbot wrote it.

Best Picture Nominees

All Quiet on the Western Front – Malte Grunert, producer 4 Oscars
Avatar: The Way of Water – James Cameron and Jon Landau, producers Best Visual Effects
The Banshees of Inisherin – Graham Broadbent, Peter Czernin, and Martin McDonagh, producers
Elvis – Baz Luhrmann, Catherine Martin, Gail Berman, Patrick McCormick, and Schuyler Weiss, producers
Everything Everywhere All at Once – Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert, and Jonathan Wang, producers 7 Oscars including BEST PICTURE
The Fabelmans – Kristie Macosko Krieger, Steven Spielberg, and Tony Kushner, producers
Tár – Todd Field, Alexandra Milchan, and Scott Lambert, producers
Top Gun: Maverick – Tom Cruise, Christopher McQuarrie, David Ellison, and Jerry Bruckheimer, producers Best Sound
Triangle of Sadness – Erik Hemmendorff and Philippe Bober, producers
Women Talking – Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, and Frances McDormand, producers Best Adapted Screenplay

The Whale-Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor

Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio – Best Animated Film

RRR “Naatu Naatu” Best Original Song

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever Best Costume Design

An Irish Goodbye Best Live Action Short Film

The Elephant Whisperers –Best Documentary Short Subject

Navalny Best Documentary Feature

2023 OSCARS PREDICTIONS: BEST ANIMATED SHORT (I watched Them All)

1 “The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse” Charlie Mackesy and Matthew Freud Apple TV+ WON
Follows a boy, a mole, a fox and a horse, as they create an unexpected friendship and travel together in the boy’s search for home.

2.“Ice Merchants” João Gonzalez and Bruno Caetano Curtas Metragens CRL / Agência – Portuguese Short Film Agency
Every day, a father and his son jump with a parachute from their vertiginous cold house, attached to a cliff, to go to the village on the ground, far away where they sell the ice they produce daily.

3.“An Ostrich Told Me the World Is Fake and I Think I Believe It” Lachlan Pendragon Griffith Film School
A young office worker uncovers the flaws in his stop-motion universe with the help of a mysterious talking ostrich.

4 The Flying Sailor” Amanda Forbis and Wendy Tilby National Film Board of Canada (NFB)
Inspired by true events, the highly anticipated new film by Oscar-nominated duo Wendy Tilby and Amanda Forbis is a meditation on a sailor’s unexpected voyage.

5 A short about a girl who tries very hard to lose her virginity and always searches for “the one”. Because this is a Catholic blog I don’t think the title of the short is appropriate to even mention. I got through about 10 minutes of the 30 minute animated short.