The Old Faithful Last Week in Life
continues to deliver interesting bits of

historical trivia
and interesting articles and videos created
in the past week.

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

Monday September 18, 2023

SAINT JOSEPH OF CUPERTINO, THE FLYING SAINT-

Day 261: Ornate Souls — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
 Day 261: Justification — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube

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

• 1793 – The first cornerstone of the United States Capitol is laid by George Washington.
• 1837 – Tiffany & Co. (first named Tiffany & Young) is founded by Charles Lewis Tiffany and Teddy Young in New York City. The store is called a “stationery and fancy goods emporium”.
• 1870 – Old Faithful Geyser is observed and named by Henry D. Washburn.
• 1895 – The Atlanta Exposition Speech on race relations is delivered by Booker T. Washington.
• 1898 – The Fashoda Incident triggers the last war scare between Britain and France.
• 2023-A black bear on a tree in Walt Disney World temporarily shut down parts of the park.

•  Quote of the Day

  Fr. Joseph Krupp@Joeinblack (September 18, 2023)
  Why oh why do people insist that if you don’t agree with them on something, you are evil or hateful or must change?
  What the heck is this?
  I’m wrong everyday about all kinds of things. Other people are wrong sometimes when they talk to or about me.
  This is called life.
  My God we need fortitude. We are brittle.

  Mark Brumley@mabrumley (September 18, 2023)
  A science book I’m reading says the laws of physics allow this but not that. That talk seems metaphorical. It seems better to say the natures of this thing and that one are such that this but not that can occur. Is that more or less right? Or is it way off?

  Patrick K. Miller@PatrickKMiller_(September 18, 2023)
  “There’s no theologically sound reason to attended a megachurch.”

  What if you have a child with disabilities and the only church with an ASL translator, wheelchair accessibility, quiet rooms for children with severe autism, and staff committed to serve them… is a megachurch?

Tuesday September 19,  2023

Saint Januarius, Bishop and Martyr

Day 262: Miracle Worker — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 262: Habitual and Actual Grace — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube

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

• 1676 – Jamestown is burned to the ground by the forces of Nathaniel Bacon during Bacon’s Rebellion.
• 1796 – George Washington’s Farewell Address is printed across America as an open letter to the public.
• 1881-– President James A. Garfield dies eleven weeks after being shot. Vice President Chester A. Arthur becomes the 21st president of the United States.
• 1995 – The Washington Post and The New York Times publish the Unabomber manifesto.
• 2008 – A Learjet 60 carrying musicians Travis Barker and Adam “DJ AM” Goldstein crashes during a rejected takeoff from Colombia Metropolitan Airport in West Columbia, South Carolina, killing four of the six people on board. Barker and Goldstein both survive.
• 2022 – The state funeral of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom is held at Westminster Abbey, London.
• 2023-Nigerian diocese calls for prayers for kidnapped priest

•  Quote of the Day

  emily@emilykmay (Sep 19, 2023)
  The most millennial thing my husband has ever done is tell me we should just buy a new printer instead of figuring out what toner and ink go in our current one…. which we haven’t used in six months because it was out of toner and ink.

  The printer is a year old.

Wednesday September 20, 2023

Saints Andrew Kim Tae-gŏn, Priest, and Paul Chŏng Ha-sang,
and Companions, Martyrs

Day 263: The Father’s Generosity — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 263: Responding to Grace — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube

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

• 1378 – Cardinal Robert of Geneva is elected as Pope Clement VII, beginning the Papal schism.’
• 1881 – U.S. President Chester A. Arthur is sworn in upon the death of James A. Garfield the previous day.
• 1946 – The first Cannes Film Festival is held, having been delayed for seven years due to World War II.
• 1973 – Singer Jim Croce, songwriter and musician Maury Muehleisen and four others die when their light aircraft crashes on takeoff at Natchitoches Regional Airport in Louisiana.
• 1982 – NFL season: American football players in the National Football League begin a 57-day strike.’
• 2019 – Roughly four million people, mostly students, demonstrate across the world to address climate change. Sixteen-year-old Greta Thunberg from Sweden leads the demonstration in New York City.
• 2023-Pope Francis lauds Catholic saint who fought to end slavery in Africa

•  Quote of the Day

  Father Jim Sichko@JimSichko (Sep 20, 2023)
  What if you’re in hell, and you’re mad at someone, where do you tell them to go? Asking for a friend……

  John Herreid@HerreidJohn (Sep 20, 2023)
  The problem with Catholic Twitter is that you have a bunch of incredibly smart people with like 1k followers and then a handful of guys with the reading comprehension skills of Amelia Bedelia who have 20k followers and suck up all the oxygen

Thursday September 21, 2023

Saint Matthew, Apostle and Evangelist

Day 264: Preaching Without Practice — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 264: Man’s Merit — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube

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

• 1776 – Part of New York City is burned shortly after being occupied by British forces
• 1933 – Salvador Lutteroth establishes Mexican professional wrestling.
• 1964 – Malta gains independence from the United Kingdom, but remains in the Commonwealth.
• 1981 – Belize is granted full independence from the United Kingdom.
• 2001 – America: A Tribute to Heroes is broadcast by over 35 network and cable channels, raising over $200 million for the victims of the September 11 attacks.
• 2023-Catholic peace organization condemns sexual enslavement of Mozambican Christians

•  Quote of the Day

  Ambrose Little@software_dad (Sep 21 2023)
  Same ol’ shenanigans. Same folks. Saying basically the same stuff, arguing with the same folks. Again and again. It’s clearer when you step away for a bit. Recommend doing that. ��

Friday September 22,  2023

Day 265: Sins of Omission — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 265: The Call to Holiness — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube

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

• 1823 – Joseph Smith claims to have found the golden plates after being directed by God through the Angel Moroni to the place where they were buried.
• 1896 – Queen Victoria surpasses her grandfather King George III as the longest reigning monarch in British history.
• 1991 – The Dead Sea Scrolls are made available to the public for the first time.
• 2023-‘We came back stronger’: Priest, seminarian abducted in Nigeria recall three-week ordeal

•  Quote of the Day

  Fr. Joseph Krupp@Joeinblack (Sep 22, 2023)
  Remember how you loved Him before you went and made it complicated.
  Remember the simple trust, the free expression of affection and the ability to quickly forget wounds and failures.
  Pray for the grace to remember simple love.

  #talkedtotheboss

Saturday September 23, 2023

Saint Pius of Pietrelcina, Priest

Day 266: Son of the Father — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 266: The Gift of Grace — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube

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

• 1122 – Pope Callixtus II and Holy Roman Emperor Henry V agree to the Concordat of Worms to put an end to the Investiture Controversy.
• 1846 – Astronomers Urbain Le Verrier, John Couch Adams and Johann Gottfried Galle collaborate on the discovery of Neptune.
• 2023-‘You don’t play with life’: Pope Francis condemns euthanasia, abortion on papal plane

•  Quote of the Day

  Fr. Ryan Hilderbrand@FrHilderbrand (September 23, 2023)
  I know I’m mufos with a couple of homiletics professors, so I hope they don’t get mad when I say this, but …

  Homiletics courses in the US are universally bad.

  My homiletics prof had us watch Woody Allen movies. He taught that class for over 30 years.

Sunday September 24, 2023

TWENTY-FIFTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME

Day 267: Indifference and Apathy — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 267: The Church as Mother and Teacher — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube

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

• 1789 – The United States Congress passes the Judiciary Act, creating the office of the Attorney General and federal judiciary system and ordering the composition of the Supreme Court.
• 1890 – The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints officially renounces polygamy.
• 1906 – U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt proclaims Devils Tower in Wyoming as the nation’s first National Monument.
• 1929 – Jimmy Doolittle performs the first flight without a window, proving that full instrument flying from take off to landing is possible.
• 1935 – Earl and Weldon Bascom produce the first rodeo ever held outdoors under electric lights.
• 1957 – President Eisenhower sends the 101st Airborne Division to Little Rock, Arkansas, to enforce desegregation.

•  Quote of the Day

  David M. Eckel@davidomaha (September 24, 2023) My brother died today. I am devastated that he would decline so quickly, and that he is gone. The finality of it, though expected, is still difficult to wrap my head around. In your charity, please pray for his soul.