Stuck Souls At High Noon-LWIL # 30

Sinead O’ Connor and Leny Andrade are two singing ladies who died this past week.

We also remember the deaths of legendary Cyrano De Bergerac and comedic legend Bob Hope
and the recent death of actor Paul Rubbins who gave the world his character persona ‘Pee Wee Herman’.
The first woman to be hanged in Shanghai since 2004 is yet another person who experienced death this week.

Jimmy Akin gives us podcasts reflecting on
The Victims of the Son of Sam and Jimmy Hoffa
who both brought death to the forefront of historical thought and crime.
And Jimmy also brings us Fr. Nathan Castle who has a ministry counseling the stuck souls of the faithful departed.
Death is awaiting for us at High Noon looking to hunt us down.
Will Life or Death draw first and fire?

Learn about these fleeting moments of life and more in…

What Happen Last Week and Year in Life.

Monday July 24, 2023

Saint Sharbel Makhlūf, Priest

Day 205: Promise to Zion — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 205: Christ the Physician — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube

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

1847 – After 17 months of travel, Brigham Young leads 148 Mormon pioneers into Salt Lake Valley, resulting in the establishment of Salt Lake City.
1901 – O. Henry is released from prison in Columbus, Ohio, after serving three years for embezzlement from a bank.

1946-Courage of Lassie is released in theaters.
1952- The Classic Movie Western ‘High Noon’ with Gary Cooper is released.

1959 – At the opening of the American National Exhibition in Moscow, U.S. Vice President Richard Nixon and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev have a “Kitchen Debate“.
1969 – Apollo program: Apollo 11 splashes down safely in the Pacific Ocean.
1974 – Watergate scandal: The United States Supreme Court unanimously ruled that President Richard Nixon did not have the authority to withhold subpoenaed White House tapes and they order him to surrender the tapes to the Watergate special prosecutor.

2023

‘ALF’ is coming back on Ryan Reynolds’ Maximum Fun Channel | EW.com

Meta Appears to Hold the Rights to ‘X,’ Could Complicate Twitter Rebrand (businessinsider.com)

Quote of the Day

David Dault is revising today (He, His)@DaultRadio (July 24, 2023)
I just want to say that I love you all, and I am very grateful for the conversations I’ve had here. Thank you.

Tuesday July 25, 2023

Saint James, Apostle

Day 206: The Book of Baruch — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 206: Healing the Sick — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube

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

1788 – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart completes his Symphony No. 40 in G minor (K550).
1837 – The first commercial use of an electrical telegraph is successfully demonstrated in London by William Cooke and Charles Wheatstone.
1868 – The Wyoming Territory is established.

1968- Pope Paul VI‘s encyclical Humanae vitae (Of Human Life) is released. It reaffirms the Catholic Church’s view of marriage and marital relations and still forbids the use of “artificial” birth control.

2023

Biden’s dog, Commander, has been biting Secret Service agents

Quote of the Day

Thy Geekdom Come��@ThyGeekdomCome (Jul 25, 2023) A man whose wife is not interested in fulfilling the marital debt at some specific time should take the opportunity to practice marital continence, to love his wife even then, and even if he is upset, and to, frankly, get over himself.

And like the Good Samaritan, his concern should not be that his wife fulfills her role, but that he fulfills his: “What can I do to better love her? How can I be a better husband in this moment?”

Wednesday July 26, 2023

Saints Joachim and Anne, Parents of the Blessed Virgin Mary

Day 207: The Lord Will Come — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 207: Celebrating the Anointing of the Sick — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube

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

1745 – The first recorded women’s cricket match takes place near Guildford, England.
1788 – New York ratifies the United States Constitution and becomes the 11th state of the United States.
1990 – The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 is signed into law by President George H. W. Bush.
2016 – Hillary Clinton becomes the first female nominee for President of the United States by a major political party at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia.

2023

In his apostolic exhortation Amoris Laetitia, Pope Francis reminds us of the importance of grandparents in family life and how their role can be fundamental in transmitting the Catholic faith to future generations. The Holy Father invites us to reflect on the importance of this intergenerational connection and its impact on the spiritual growth of our families.

“Very often it is grandparents who ensure that the most important values are passed down to their grandchildren, and ‘many people can testify that they owe their initiation into the Christian life to their grandparents,’” noted the pope. Grandparents and faith: A direct legacy that transcends generations – Northwest Catholic: Read Catholic News & Stories (nwcatholic.org)

Last week Tony Bennett joined the great celestial choir. This week Irish singer Sinéad O’Connor (December 8, 1966 – July 26, 2023) died.

Leny Andrade, known as the first lady of Brazilian jazz, dies at 80

Quote of the Day

Nathaniel Swift@WriterNatSwift (July 26, 2023) My kids want to write a story where farts come to life. Can you help me convince them this won’t be an instant bestseller?

Thursday 27, 2023

Day 208: The Futility of Idols — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 208: Completing the Earthly Pilgrimage — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube

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

1549 – The Jesuit priest Francis Xavier‘s ship reaches Japan.
1866 – The first permanent transatlantic telegraph cable is successfully completed, stretching from Valentia Island, Ireland, to Heart’s Content, Newfoundland.
1890 – Vincent van Gogh shoots himself and dies two days later.
1974 – Watergate scandal: The House of Representatives Judiciary Committee votes 27 to 11 to recommend the first article of impeachment (for obstruction of justice) against President Richard Nixon.
2003 – Funny Man Bob Hope dies. (b. 1903)

2023

Actors take to the internet to show their residual checks, with some in the negative

Quote of the Day

Edward Feser@FeserEdward (Jul 27, 2023) Certain LeftCaths and RadTrads seem to be united on the strange proposition that you either have to approve of everything that Pope Francis says and does or of nothing that he says and does. Hence the one side cannot bear hearing the mildest criticism of him, and the other side cannot bear hearing the mildest defense of him. It’s hard to believe so many otherwise intelligent people could be so simpleminded, but there it is.

Friday July 28, 2023

Day 209: God Comforts His People — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 209: Summary of the Anointing of the Sick — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube

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

1540 – Henry VIII of England marries his fifth wife, Catherine Howard, on the same day his former Chancellor, Thomas Cromwell, is executed on charges of treason
1655-Death of Cyrano de Bergerac (March 1619 –July 28, 1655)
1868 – The 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution is certified, establishing African American citizenship and guaranteeing due process of law.
1896 – The city of Miami is incorporated.
1915 – The United States begins a 19-year occupation of Haiti.
1996 – The remains of a prehistoric man are discovered near Kennewick, Washington. Such remains will be known as the Kennewick Man.

2023

Singapore has executed a woman for the first time in nearly two decades

Singaporean national Saridewi Djamani, 45, was convicted in 2018 of trafficking over 30 grams of heroin. She is first woman to be hanged since 2004. May God have had mercy on her soul and given her the grace of knowing Him before she died.

Movie Openings

The Haunted Mansion

Helping Stuck Souls! (Purgatory, Fr. Nathan Castle, OP) – Jimmy Akin’s Mysterious World

Suppose you had a dream of a stranger who died and is calling out to you for help from the afterlife? This is. the situaton that confronted Fr. Nathan Castle. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli talk to Fr. Castle about how he began receiving these dreams and what he has done about them.

Quote of the Day

The Roman Puntiff@ThePuntiff (July 28, 2023)
Looking for some fish puns. If you have some, please let minnow. If they aren’t great, no worries, I will let you off the hook.

Saturday July 29, 2023

Saints Martha, Mary and Lazarus

Day 210: Speaking God’s Word — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 210: The Sacrament of Holy Orders — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube

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

1858 – United States and Japan sign the Harris Treaty.
1901 – Land lottery begins in Oklahoma.
1914 – The Cape Cod Canal opened.
1921 – Adolf Hitler becomes leader of the National Socialist German Workers’ Party.
1948 – Olympic Games: The Games of the XIV Olympiad: After a hiatus of 12 years caused by World War II, the first Summer Olympics to be held since the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, open in London.
1958 – U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs into law the National Aeronautics and Space Act, which creates the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).
1976 – In New York City, David Berkowitz (a.k.a. the “Son of Sam”) kills one person and seriously wounds another in the first of a series of attacks.

Were the Son of Sam Killings a Conspiracy? (David Berkowitz) –

1981 – A worldwide television audience of around 750 million people watch the wedding of Charles, Prince of Wales, and Lady Diana Spencer at St Paul’s Cathedral in London.
2005 – Astronomers announce their discovery of the dwarf planet Eris.

2023

The 75th Emmy Awards show has been postponed

The ceremony, scheduled for Sept. 18, has been cancelled due to the writers and actors’ strikes. This year’s nominees include Succession and Ted Lasso.

Quote of the Day

Catholic Ken �� (a.k.a. Jefferson)@josemaria4ever (July 29, 2023)
I love the TLM and prefer it to other forms of the liturgy, but I have never seen an irreverent Novus Ordo in my life.

That’s not to say they don’t happen, but I’d wager they’re rare.

Russ Hjelm@HjelmRo (July 29, 2023) When I come across anyone, be they lay or a “theologian” with more degrees than Fahrenheit, who claims the Bible is simple and clear, I repent (turn in the other direction) and run as fast as I can.

Winston “Hopeful Universalist” Smith, Tweet PhD@VentureCoMining (July 29, 2023)
My biggest gripe with the UFO nonsense is: These extremely advanced beings from another planet, possibly another dimension (lol), are absolute masters of space-time…and yet they crash all the time. When’s the last time an airliner crashed?

Mathieu@TotvsTvvsEgoSvm (July 29, 2023)
Is Twitter called X as in the letter, or 10 as in the Roman numeral?

Sunday July 30, 2023

SEVENTEENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME

Blessed Solanus Casey, OFM Cap. (November 25, 1870 – July 31, 1957)

Diocese of Brooklyn@BrooklynDiocese (July 30,2023)#SaintOfTheDay: Blessed Solanus Casey became one of Detroit’s best-known priests. Difficulties with studies limited his ministry but he was a beloved friar and a modern-day example of humility and perseverance. To learn more, visit Franciscan Media: Franciscan Media

Day 211: Called by Name — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 211: The One Priesthood of Christ — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube

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

1619 – In Jamestown, Virginia, the first Colonial European representative assembly in the Americas, the Virginia General Assembly, convenes for the first time.
1756 – In Saint Petersburg, Bartolomeo Rastrelli presents the newly built Catherine Palace to Empress Elizabeth and her courtiers.
1932 – Premiere of Walt Disney‘s Flowers and Trees, the first cartoon short to use Technicolor and the first Academy Award winning cartoon short.
1971 – Apollo program: On Apollo 15, David Scott and James Irwin on the Apollo Lunar Module Falcon land on the Moon with the first Lunar Rover.
1975 – Jimmy Hoffa disappears from the parking lot of the Machus Red Fox restaurant in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit, at about 2:30 p.m. He is never seen or heard from again.

2003 – In Mexico, the last ‘old style’ Volkswagen Beetle rolls off the assembly line.

2023

In Peru, discovery of ancient ruins outpaces authorities’ ability to care for them

Everywhere you dig, you will find something — because Lima was home to great civilizations,” says a museum director in the capital. “But it’s impossible to save everything in a poor country.”

Paul Reubens (August 27, 1952 – July 30, 2023) better known by his character Pee-wee Herman has passed on to the big heavenly playhouse, with perhaps a stop in purgatory!

Quote of the Day

Pope Francis@Pontifex (July 30, 2023) Let’s #PrayTogether for beleaguered Ukraine, where the war is destroying everything, even grain, while the cry of millions of hungry brothers and sisters rises to Heaven.