Mark My Words I’m Not Lion-LWIL # 17

It’s the last week in April and the First Week in May 2023.

Mark My Words it was the feast day of my namesake this past week,
St. Mark.
I’m not Lion, but there is one lying in his icon picture.
Also this week Fr. Casey Cole explains about exorcism as satancon occurred in Boston.
We say a found farewell to singer Harry Bellefonte and trash TV host Jerry Springer.
The Louisiana Purchase happened and Louisiana also become a state.
Plus Pope Benedict began his reign as pope and
Ernest Shackleton showed us how much Endurance his expedition to Antarctica cost him.

All This and More..

Happened Last Week and Year in Life.

Monday April 24, 2023

[Saint Fidelis of Sigmaringen, Priest and Martyr]

Day 114: David Saves Keilah — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 114: The Church Is One — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube

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

1704 – The first regular newspaper in British Colonial America, The Boston News-Letter, is published.
1800 – The United States Library of Congress is established when President John Adams signs legislation to appropriate $5,000 to purchase “such books as may be necessary for the use of Congress“.
1916 – Ernest Shackleton and five men of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition launch a lifeboat from uninhabited Elephant Island in the Southern Ocean to organise a rescue for the crew of the sunken Endurance.
1953 – Winston Churchill is knighted by Queen Elizabeth II.
2005 – Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger is inaugurated as the 265th Pope of the Catholic Church taking the name Pope Benedict XVI.
Quote of the Day

Jolz �@Jolz_Aust (Apr 24, 2023) How can I put this? The balance between being a faithful Catholic and challenging the Church will always be a delicate balance.

Tuesday April 25, 2023

Saint Mark, Evangelist

St. Mark — An icon of Saint Mark the Evangelist, 1657

Day 115: King Saul is Spared — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 115: Wounds to Unity — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube

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

1792 – Highwayman Nicolas J. Pelletier becomes the first person executed by guillotine.
1792 – “La Marseillaise” (the French national anthem) is composed by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle.
1859 – British and French engineers break ground for the Suez Canal.
1901 – New York becomes the first U.S. state to require automobile license plates.
1944 – The United Negro College Fund is incorporated.
2023- Singer Harry Belafonte(March 1, 1927 – April 25, 2023) dies.

Quote of the Day

SDG verifiably not paying for Blue@DecentFilms (April 25, 2023) The Fugitive asks you to accept one improbable premise: that a good-looking, wealthy, White surgeon would wind up sentenced to death based on circumstantial evidence any elite lawyer would demolish. Go with that, and your reward is one of the greatest action thrillers ever made.

Wednesday April 26, 2023

Day 116: David and Abigail — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 116: The Church Is Holy — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube

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

1564 – Playwright William Shakespeare is baptized in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England (date of birth is unknown).
1933 – The Gestapo, the official secret police force of Nazi Germany, is established by Hermann Göring.
1933 – Nazi Germany issues the Law Against Overcrowding in Schools and Universities limiting the number of Jewish students able to attend public schools and universities.
1962 – NASA‘s Ranger 4 spacecraft crashes into the Moon.
1986 – The Chernobyl disaster occurs in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic.
1989 – The deadliest known tornado strikes Central Bangladesh, killing upwards of 1,300, injuring 12,000, and leaving as many as 80,000 homeless.
1989 – People’s Daily publishes the April 26 Editorial which inflames the nascent Tiananmen Square protests.
2018 – American comedian Bill Cosby is convicted of sexual assault.
2019 – Marvel Studios‘ blockbuster film, Avengers: Endgame, is released, becoming the highest-grossing film of all time, surpassing the previous box office record of Avatar.
2023- Shock TV host Jerry Springer (February 13, 1944 – April 27, 2023) dies.
Quote of the Day

Caleb John@anargyros402 (Apr 26, 2023) Macarius said also, ‘If you are stirred to anger when you want to reprove someone, you are gratifying your own passions. Do not lose yourself in order to save another.

I need to have this beaten into me with an iron hammer

Thursday April 27, 2023

Day 117: Reverence and Faithfulness — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 117: The Church Is Catholic — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube

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

1565 – Cebu is established becoming the first Spanish settlement in the Philippines.
1595 – The relics of Saint Sava are incinerated in Belgrade on the Vračar plateau by Ottoman Grand Vizier Sinan Pasha; the site of the incineration is now the location of the Church of Saint Sava, one of the largest Orthodox churches in the world
1667 – Blind and impoverished, John Milton sells Paradise Lost to a printer for £10, so that it could be entered into the Stationers’ Register.
1978 – John Ehrlichman, a former aide to U.S. President Richard Nixon, is released from the Federal Correctional Institution, Safford, Arizona, after serving 18 months for Watergate-related crimes.
Quote of the Day

Greg Hillis@gregorykhillis (April 27, 2023) Spent the last few days reading John Henry Newman. Merton talked about Newman as being part of his “choir,” those people one meets in books or in life with whom one experiences a “deep resonance of one’s entire being.” Newman is definitely part of my “choir.”

Punky �@PunkyMantilla (April 27, 2023) In the Anne of Green Gables series, Miss Cornelia Bryant refers to this kind of kinship as being part of “the race that knows Joseph.”

Friday April 28, 2023

Saint Peter Chanel, Priest and Martyr; Saint Louis Grignion de Montfort, Priest

Day 118: King Saul Despairs — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 118: The Church and Non-Christians — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube

Song of the Week

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

1611 – Establishment of the Pontifical and Royal University of Santo Tomas, The Catholic University of the Philippines, the largest Catholic university in the world.
1881 – Billy the Kid escapes from the Lincoln County jail in Mesilla, New Mexico.
1945 – The Holocaust: Nazi Germany carries out its final use of gas chambers to execute 33 Upper Austrian socialist and communist leaders in Mauthausen concentration camp.
1973 – The Dark Side of the Moon by Pink Floyd, recorded in Abbey Road Studios goes to number one on the US Billboard chart, beginning a record-breaking 741-week chart run.
2004 – CBS News released evidence of the Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse. The photographs show rape and abuse from the American troops over Iraqi detainees.
2023-Pope to Hungarian authorities: Your history teaches us beauty, pain and acceptance – Vatican News

Quote of the Day

A Catholic Adventurer@forthequeenbvm (April 28, 2023) Look upon Jesus. Meditate. It’s the face of Truth, compassion, justice. It’s the heart of Mercy that burns with love for you. Remind yourself of those things every day.

Edward Peters@canonlaw (Apr 28, 2023) The noisy-kids / cry-room debate cannot be settled, or even usefully commented upon, without video evidence. BUT, always overlooked in such quarrels is the starting point that children under the age of reason are not required to be at Mass at all. Signed, Canon Lawyer Dad of Six.

Saturday April 29, 2023

Saint Catherine of Siena, Virgin and Doctor of the Church

Day 119: David’s Wisdom — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 119: The Church’s Missionary Mandate — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube

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

1429 – Joan of Arc arrives to relieve the Siege of Orléans.
1945 – World War II: Adolf Hitler marries his longtime partner Eva Braun in a Berlin bunker^[19] and designates Admiral Karl Dönitz as his successor.^[20]
1945 – Dachau concentration camp is liberated by United States troops.^[21]
1945 – The Italian commune of Fornovo di Taro is liberated from German forces by Brazilian forces.
1953 – The first U.S. experimental 3D television broadcast shows an episode of Space Patrol on Los Angeles ABC affiliate KECA-TV.
1986 – Chernobyl disaster: American and European spy satellites capture the ruins of the 4th Reactor at the Chernobyl Power Plant.
2004 – The final Oldsmobile is built in Lansing, Michigan, ending 107 years of vehicle production.^[29]
2011 – The Wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton takes place at Westminster Abbey in London.
2015 – A baseball game between the Baltimore Orioles and the Chicago White Sox sets the all-time low attendance mark for Major League Baseball. Zero fans were in attendance for the game, as the stadium was officially closed to the public due to the 2015 Baltimore protests.
2023-Willie Nelson celebrating 90th birthday with 2-day concert event (wbay.com)Quote of the Day
Thy Geekdom Come��@ThyGeekdomCome (Apr 29, 2023) If the Flintstones were all about rock puns at a time when America was electing its first Irish-American president, why isn’t his name “Blarney Rubble?”

Sunday April 30, 2023

Day 120: David Mourns Saul — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 120: The Apostolic Church — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube

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

1789 – On the balcony of Federal Hall on Wall Street in New York City, George Washington takes the oath of office to become the first President of the United States.
1803 – Louisiana Purchase: The United States purchases the Louisiana Territory from France for $15 million, more than doubl.
ing the size of the young nation.
1812 – The Territory of Orleans becomes the 18th U.S. state under the name Louisiana.
1897 – J. J. Thomson of the Cavendish Laboratory announces his discovery of the electron as a subatomic particle, over 1,800 times smaller than a proton (in the atomic nucleus), at a lecture at the Royal Institution in London.
1905 – Albert Einstein completes his doctoral thesis at the University of Zurich.
1939 – The 1939–40 New York World’s Fair opens.
1939 – NBC inaugurates its regularly scheduled television service in New York City, broadcasting President Franklin D. Roosevelt‘s N.Y. World’s Fair opening day ceremonial address.
1961 – K-19, the first Soviet nuclear submarine equipped with nuclear missiles, is commissioned.
1973 – Watergate scandal: U.S. President Richard Nixon announces that White House Counsel John Dean has been fired and that other top aides, most notably H. R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman, have resigned.
2000 – Canonization of Faustina Kowalska in the presence of 200,000 people and the first Divine Mercy Sunday celebrated worldwide.
2023-“Pope Francis wrapped up a three-day visit to Budapest by issuing a final plea for peace in Ukraine and appealing to the often-isolated Hungarian nation not to close its doors to those in need…” Pope departs Hungary pleading for peace in Ukraine, warning against isolationism | National Catholic Reporter (ncronline.org)
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Quote of the Day

Patrick Neve@catholicpat (April 30, 2023)

Catholic Church has 1.3 billion people in it.

You can argue with it, leave it, denounce it, or even persecute it.

But you can’t ignore it.