LWIL # 16 Showing Up at the Wrong House Might Get You Shot

Last Week in Life was a tough week to remember and to live. At least 4 different people looking for someone showed up at the wrong house only to be fired upon by the owner fearing for their life.  This happen in…

1. Kansas City. 16 year old Ralph Yarl was going to pick up his younger siblings and rang the  doorbell of 84 year old Andrew Lester instead. Andrew decided a black teen ringing his doorbell was a threat to his life and opened fired without as much of a warning or trying to find out why his doorbell was being rung.
2. Some young adults were trying to find a friends house in upstate New York. pulled in the wrong driveway and 65 Kevin Monahan appared on his porch with his gun and opened fired on the girls killing 20 year old Kaylin Gillis.
3. Some Cops showed up in New Mexico looking for a domestic abuser  but went to the wrong house. 52 year old Robert Dotson showed up at the door with a gun and the police took out their guns and shot away.
4. A ball rolled into a person’s yard in North Carolina. The owner 24 year old Robert Louis Singletary came out and fired upon a 6 year old, her parents and a neighbor.

SDG May or May Not Be Notable@DecentFilms (April 18, 2023) Because Dotson had a gun for his protection, he’s dead and his wife is a widow. Because Lester and Monahan had guns for their protection, they’re in custody facing felony charges, an innocent woman is dead, and a child was critically injured and underwent surgery.

This past week was the anniversary of the Oklahoma City Bombing, The Columbine Shootings and the first shots of the Civil War.
However people did more then shoot others.
A young peasant martyr warrior saint was canonized.
People survived various earthquakes.
And freemasonry was condemned.
All this and more happened…

Last Week and Year in Life. 

Monday April 17,  2023

Tuesday April 18,  2023

Day 108: Saul’s Vanity — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
— The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube

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

• 1506 – The cornerstone of the current St. Peter’s Basilica is laid.
• 1521 – Trial of Martin Luther begins its second day during the assembly of the Diet of Worms. He refuses to recant his teachings despite the risk of excommunication.
• 1775: Listen my children and you shall hear of the midnight ride of Paul Revere.
• 1783 – Three-Fifths Compromise: The first instance of black slaves in the United States of America being counted as three fifths of persons (for the purpose of taxation), in a resolution of the Congress of the Confederation. This was later adopted in the 1787 Constitution.
• 1909 – Joan of Arc is beatified in Rome.
• 1902 – The 7.5 M_w  Guatemala earthquake shakes Guatemala with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe), killing between 800 and 2,000.
• 1906 – An earthquake and fire destroy much of San Francisco, California.
• 1909 – Joan of Arc is beatified in Rome.
• 1912 – The Cunard liner RMS Carpathia brings 705 survivors from the RMS Titanic to New York City.
• 2023-Kaylin Gillis: 20-year-old shot by homeowner in his Hebron, New York, driveway : NPR

Apparently if you go to the wrong house or ring the wrong door bell it can cost you your life. 2nd day in a row where this sort of thing happen.

New Mexico police fatally shoot resident after responding to wrong house: “A very dark day” – CBS News

•  Quote of the Day

  Mike Lewis@mfjlewis(April 18, 2023)
  Maybe the solution is a return to public confession.

  Think about it: None of this bickering about the seal, no shenanigans in the box.

  Added bonus: People will have a new reason to come to church. And we’d all get to really know our neighbors.

  While I think it’s both extremely unlikely and far-fetched, I am not entirely opposed to the idea. Accountability and transparency would skyrocket. Clericalism would plummet when Fr Dave has to confess in front of his people. Manipulative pastoral advice would get called out…

Wednesday April 19 , 2023

Day 109: A Heart of Obedience — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 109: Mystery of Union With God — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube

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

• 1713 – With no living male heirs, Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor, issues the Pragmatic Sanction of 1713 to ensure that Habsburg lands and the Austrian throne would be inheritable by a female; his daughter and successor, Maria Theresa, was not born until 1717.^[7]
• 1770 – Captain James Cook, still holding the rank of lieutenant, sights the eastern coast of what is now Australia.^[8]
• 1770 – Marie Antoinette marries Louis XVI of France in a proxy wedding.
• 1775 – American Revolutionary War: The war begins with an American victory in Concord during the battles of Lexington and Concord.^[10]
• 1782 – John Adams secures Dutch recognition of the United States as an independent government. The house which he had purchased in The Hague becomes the first American embassy.
• 1861-April 19, 1861, the first blood of the American Civil War is shed when a secessionist mob in Baltimore attacks Massachusetts troops bound for Washington, D.C. Four soldiers and 12 rioters were killed.
• 1897-First Boston Marathon held.
• 1987 – The Simpsons first appear as a series of shorts on The Tracey Ullman Show, first starting with “Good Night“.
• 1993 – The 51-day FBI siege of the Branch Davidian building in Waco, Texas, USA, ends when a fire breaks out. Seventy-six Davidians, including 18 children under age 10, died in the fire.
• 1995 – Oklahoma City bombing: The Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, USA, is bombed, killing 168 people including 19 children under the age of six.
• 2013 – Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev is killed in a shootout with police. His brother Dzhokhar is later captured hiding in a boat inside a backyard in the suburb of Watertown.

•  Quote of the Day

  Matt Swaim@mattswaim (April 19, 2023) I have managed to live long enough to see people say, “hey, the guy kinda had a point” to both Stalin and Vlad the Impaler, so I don’t know how much time I have left

Thursday April 20, 2023

Day 110: David and Goliath — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 110: The People of God — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube

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

• 1303 – The Sapienza University of Rome is instituted by a bull of Pope Boniface VIII.
• 1862 – Louis Pasteur and Claude Bernard complete the experiment disproving the theory of spontaneous generation.
• 1865 – Astronomer Angelo Secchi demonstrates the Secchi disk, which measures water clarity, aboard Pope Pius IX‘s yacht, the L’Immaculata Concezion.
• 1884 – Pope Leo XIII publishes the encyclical Humanum genus, condemning Freemasonry.
• 1898 – U.S. President William McKinley signs a joint resolution to Congress for declaration of war against Spain, beginning the Spanish–American War.
• 1999 – Columbine High School massacre: Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold kill 13 people and injure 24 others before committing suicide at Columbine High School in Columbine, Colorado.
• 2007 – Johnson Space Center shooting: William Phillips barricades himself with a handgun in NASA‘s Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas before killing a male hostage and himself.
• 2008 – Danica Patrick wins the Indy Japan 300 becoming the first female driver in history to win an Indy car race.
• 2010 – The Deepwater Horizon drilling rig explodes in the Gulf of Mexico, killing eleven workers and beginning an oil spill that would last six months.
• 2014-9 years ago. Time flies. I think of you everyday and love you no matter what. If you somehow get this message please call me. May God bless you and keep you safe. Love, Mom

The week of shooting people in the wrong place at the wrong time continues.

• 2023-6-year-old girl, 2 adults shot after basketball rolls into North Carolina neighbor’s yard, suspect in custody – CBS News

•  Quote of the Day

  James Breakwell, Exploding Unicorn@XplodingUnicorn  (April 20, 2023) After school, instead of getting in the back of my van like she usually does, my 12-year-old sat shotgun and said, “This is front seat talk,” and oh boy was some tea spilled.

Friday April 21, 2023

Saint Anselm, Bishop and Doctor of the Church

Day 111: Saul Tries to Kill David — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 111: The Church as the Body of Christ — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube

Song of the Week

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

• 753 BC – Romulus founds Rome (traditional date).
• 1789 – John Adams sworn in as 1st US Vice President (nine days before George Washington)
• 1836 – Texas Revolution: The Battle of San Jacinto: Republic of Texas forces under Sam Houston defeat troops under Mexican General Antonio López de Santa Anna.
• 1962 – The Seattle World’s Fair (Century 21 Exposition) opens. It is the first World’s Fair in the United States since World War II.
• 1977 – Annie opens on Broadway.
• 1989 – Tiananmen Square protests of 1989: In Beijing, around 100,000 students gather in Tiananmen Square to commemorate Chinese reform leader Hu Yaobang.

•  Quote of the Day

  Mary Pezzulo@mary_pezzulo (Apr 21, 2023)  We learned about Henry VIII and his wives in homeschooling tonight, and at one point Adrienne blurted out “Does anyone in this story NOT get their head cut off?”

Saturday April 22,  2023

 Day 112: True Friendship — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 112: The Church Is the Bride — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube

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

• 1864 – The U.S. Congress passes the Coinage Act of 1864 that permitted the inscription In God We Trust be placed on all coins minted as United States currency.
• 1876 – The first National League baseball game is played at the Jefferson Street Grounds in Philadelphia.
• 1889 – At noon, thousands rush to claim land in the Land Rush of 1889. Within hours the cities of Oklahoma City and Guthrie are formed with populations of at least 10,000.
• 1898 – Spanish–American War: President William McKinley calls for 125,000 volunteers to join the National Guard and fight in Cuba, while Congress more than doubles regular Army forces to 65,000.
• 1906 – The 1906 Intercalated Games open in Athens.
• 1970 – The first Earth Day is celebrated.
• 2023-Kristin the Carmelite writes “Mark and I went to the Ceilidhe Club last night/great craig! We watch dancers do sets and they let us try it with them when they did not have enough people. In other words : We went to an Irish group, it was a lot of fun. Set dancing Ilooks more like American
  square dancing they taught in elementary school than Step Dancing (like River Dance.) We are going back!“

•  Quote of the Day

  Jefferson 矮杰何 ������@josemaria4ever (April 22, 2023)
  I need to delete some sinful tweets, apologise to some adversaries, and go to confession.

  If I later feel that Twitter no longer presents a danger to my soul, I will come back.

  Of your charity, please pray for me, Jefferson, a poor sinner who loves Jesus.

Sunday April 23, 2023

Day 113: Broken Trust — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 113: The Temple of the Holy Spirit — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube

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

• 1564- The Original Catholic Bard himself  William Shakespeare is  born.
• 1969-Sirhan Sirhan receives death penalty for assassination of Robert F. Kennedy
• 1985 – Coca-Cola changes its formula and releases New Coke. The response is overwhelmingly negative, and the original formula is back on the market in less than three months.

•  Quote of the Day

  Pope Francis@Pontifex (April 23, 2023) Next Friday I will go to Budapest, in Hungary. It will be a journey to the centre of Europe, over which the icy winds of war continue to blow, while the displacement of so many people puts urgent humanitarian questions on the agenda.