Chomping Through History LWIL # 25

It was almost 30 years ago when the first BIG SUMMER Blockbuster swam into theaters and took a bite out of our cinematic experience. In the last week the event sharks continued to chomp through history. Here is what they munched on…

Last Week and Year in Life.  

Monday June 19, 2023

Tuesday June 20,  2023

Day 171: Elijah and Elisha — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 171: The Necessity of Baptism — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube

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

• 1877 – Alexander Graham Bell installs the world’s first commercial telephone service in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
• 1893 – Lizzie Borden is acquitted of the murders of her father and stepmother.
• 1972 – Watergate scandal: An 18+1⁄2-minute gap appears in the tape recording of the conversations between U.S. President Richard Nixon and his advisers regarding the recent arrests of his operatives while breaking into the Watergate complex.
• 1975 – The film Jaws is released in the United States, becoming the highest-grossing film of that time and starting the trend of films known as “summer blockbusters“.

•  Quote of the Day

  Owl! at the Library ��‍♀️@SketchesbyBoze (June 20, 2023)
  What the writer’s strike and recent events in the tech industry demonstrate is that we elevate and honor all the wrong people. We should be honoring teachers and librarians, the writers and underpaid visual effects artists who make our movies possible. Our culture has developed an abusive relationship to artists and creators. The owners of streaming companies find clever ways of cheating them out of money, while AI steals their work and then aims to replace them.

  All these industries—Hollywood, streaming, chatbots—are built on the labor of storytellers and artists, and would collapse without them. But we underpay them and then spread the idea that the work they do is frivolous and unimportant, that art is a needless distraction. Peter S. Beagle said it best: “We are raised to honor all the wrong explorers and discoverers—thieves planting flags, murderers carrying crosses. Let us at last praise the colonizers of dreams.” Praise them—and pay them.

Wednesday June 21, 2023

Saint Aloysius Gonzaga, Religious

Day 172: Uzziah’s Pride — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 172: What Does Baptism Do? — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube

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

• 1898 – The United States captures Guam from Spain. The few warning shots fired by the U.S. naval vessels are misinterpreted as salutes by the Spanish garrison, which was unaware that the two nations were at war.
• 1915 – The U.S. Supreme Court hands down its decision in Guinn v. United States 238 US 347 1915, striking down Oklahoma grandfather clause legislation which had the effect of denying the right to vote to blacks.
• 1978 – The original production of Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber‘s musical, Evita, based on the life of Eva Perón, opens at the Prince Edward Theatre, London.
• 2006 – Pluto‘s newly discovered moons are officially named Nix and Hydra.

•  Quote of the Day

  LisaM@GJCMDP (June 21, 2023) Listening is one of the most important roles of being a mother. We can’t teach when we don’t understand what a child’s impediments may be. It’s our duty to love them, understand them, nurture them, guide them and be a living example for them.

Thursday June 22, 2023

[Saint Paulinus of Nola, Bishop; Saints John Fisher, Bishop,
and Thomas More, Martyrs

Day 173: Confidence in God — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 173: Brothers and Sisters in Baptism — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube

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

• 1633 – The Holy Office in Rome forces Galileo Galilei to recant his view that the Sun, not the Earth, is the center of the Universe in the form he presented it in, after heated controversy.
• 1839 – Cherokee leaders Major Ridge, John Ridge, and Elias Boudinot are assassinated for signing the Treaty of New Echota, which had resulted in the Trail of Tears.
• 1978 – Charon, the first of Pluto’s satellites to be discovered, was first seen at the United States Naval Observatory by James W. Christy.
• 2023–Mother Mary Lange, founder of first African American religious congregation, declared venerable | Catholic News Agency
• 2023–Pope Francis advances the sainthood cause of Fatima’s Sister Lucia

 America Magazine@americamag (June 22, 2023) Pope Francis declared Mother Mary Lange venerable, advancing her cause for canonization. She founded the Oblate Sisters of Providence, the first African-American religious congregation. Watch America’s full look at the Oblate Sisters of Providence here:

Friday June 23, 2023

Day 174: The Prophet Hosea — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 174: Summary of the Sacrament of Baptism — 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 – The mutinous crew of Henry Hudson‘s fourth voyage sets Henry, his son and seven loyal crew members adrift in an open boat in what is now Hudson Bay; they are never heard from again.
• 1683 – William Penn signs a friendship treaty with Lenni Lenape Indians in Pennsylvania.
• 1887 – The Rocky Mountains Park Act becomes law in Canada creating the nation’s first national park, Banff National Park.
• 1926 – The College Board administers the first SAT exam.
• 1991 – Sonic the Hedgehog is released in North America on the Sega Genesis platform, beginning the popular video game franchise.
• 2018 – Twelve boys and an assistant coach from a soccer team in Thailand are trapped in a flooding cave, leading to an 18-day rescue operation.

Movies Released

•  Quote of the Day

  Pope Francis@Pontifex (June 23, 2023) Artists remind us that the dimension in which we move, even unconsciously, is always that of the Spirit. The art is like a sail swelling with the wind of the Spirit and propelling us forward.

Saturday June 24, 2023

THE NATIVITY OF SAINT JOHN THE BAPTIST

Day 175: Knowledge of God — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 175: Introduction to Confirmation — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube

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

• 1916 – Mary Pickford becomes the first female film star to sign a million-dollar contract.
• 1918 – First airmail service in Canada from Montreal to Toronto.
• 1949 – The first television western, Hopalong Cassidy, starring William Boyd, is aired on NBC.
• 1957 – In Roth v. United States, the U.S. Supreme Court rules that obscenity is not protected by the First Amendment.
• 2012 – Death of Lonesome George, the last known individual of Chelonoidis nigra abingdonii, a subspecies of the Galápagos tortoise.
• 2022 – In Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the U.S. Supreme Court rules that the U.S. Constitution does not assign the authority to regulate abortions to the federal government, thereby returning such authority to the individual states. This overturns the prior decisions in Roe v. Wade (1973) and Planned Parenthood v. Casey (1992).
• 2023 – The Wagner Group lead by Yevgeny Prigozhin launches an insurrection against the Russian government.
• 2023-What we know about doomed Titanic sub: ‘Catastrophic implosion’ and five people dead | The Independent

Sunday June 25, 2023

Day 176: Choosing Eternal Life — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 176: Traditions and Signs of Confirmation — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube

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

• 1788 – Virginia becomes the tenth state to ratify the United States Constitution.
• 1876 – Battle of the Little Bighorn and the death of Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer.
• 1900 – The Taoist monk Wang Yuanlu discovers the Dunhuang manuscripts, a cache of ancient texts that are of great historical and religious significance, in the Mogao Caves of Dunhuang, China
• 1910 – The United States Congress passes the Mann Act, which prohibits interstate transport of women or girls for “immoral purposes”; the ambiguous language would be used to selectively prosecute people for years to come.
• 1910 – Igor Stravinsky‘s ballet The Firebird is premiered in Paris, bringing him to prominence as a composer.
• 1944 – The final page of the comic Krazy Kat is published, exactly two months after its author George Herriman died.
• 1947 – The Diary of a Young Girl (better known as The Diary of Anne Frank) is published.

•  Quote of the Day

  Secular Pro-Life@secularprolife (June 25, 2023) Pro-lifers can empathize with women who don’t want to continue pregnancies while still believing prenatal lives must be defended, just as pro-choicers can grieve prenatal lives killed while still believing women’s autonomy must take.