Recently I started going to a Catholic Men’s group to enhance my spiritual life.
My wife this past Sunday made final promises as a secular Carmelite (OCDS).
She spends all day praying, doing house work while I’m at the nursing home doing whatever I need to do that day.
She doesn’t get involved in lame internet drama.
She doesn’t decide who is right with God and who isn’t.
She doesn’t bliber blab about how confusing and aweful the Pope is.
She simply tries to say her prayers and love her husband.
She takes her faith seriously and the Pope is not a scandal to her.
My father spent a good amount of time in prayer also.
Our Friend Jackson is thinking of joining a cloistered Benedictine monastery next year in Oklahoma.
I try to go to mass with my wife everyday and do the divine office, go to work and write this blog I get no commentary on.
I will keep writing regardless and try to find a way to pray more.
By the way…
Here’s What Happen Last Week and Year in Life.
Monday October 16, 2023
Saint Hedwig, Religious; Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque, Virgin
Day 289: Wise Influences — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 289: Family, Society, and the Kingdom — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Daily Defense Podcast With Jimmy Akin Eternal Life | Catholic Answers Podcasts
Here’s What Happen Last Week and Year in Life.
- 1847 – The novel Jane Eyre is published in London
- 1859 – John Brown leads a raid on Harpers Ferry, Virginia.
- 1869 – The Cardiff Giant, one of the most famous American hoaxes, is “discovered”.
- 1916 – Margaret Sanger opens the first family planning clinic in the United States.
- 1919 – Adolf Hitler delivers his first public address at a meeting of the German Workers’ Party.[14]
- 1923 – Walt Disney and his brother, Roy, found the Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio, today known as The Walt Disney Company.
- 1940 – Holocaust in Poland: The Warsaw Ghetto is established.
- 1943 – Holocaust in Italy: Raid on the Roman Ghetto.
- 1946 – Nuremberg trials: Ten defendants found guilty by the International Military Tribunal are executed by hanging.
- 1953 – Cuban revolutionary Fidel Castro delivers his “History Will Absolve Me” speech, and is sentenced to 15 years’ imprisonment by the Fulgencio Batista government for leading an attack on the Moncada Barracks.[17]
- 1962 – Cuban Missile Crisis begins: U.S. President John F. Kennedy is informed of photos taken on October 14 by a U-2 showing nuclear missiles (the crisis will last for 13 days starting from this point).
- 1978 – Cardinal Karol Wojtyła is elected to the papacy as Pope John Paul II, he becomes the first non-Italian pontiff since 1523.
- 2023-Islamist kills teacher at French high school, bishop condemns the terrorist attack
- 2023-6-year-old Palestinian American boy stabbed in alleged hate crime remembered by family, friends (msn.com)
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Quote of the Day
His Anawim – A footwasher for Jesus!@JomarToc (October 17, 2023) As a Catholic who was born Jewish I am not called to just pray for my fellow Christians or the Jewish people alone. I am compelled by charity to pray for *every* human being, my brothers & sisters of all colour, orientation, religions & none to pray for their health & safety!
Tuesday October 17, 2023
Saint Ignatius of Antioch, Bishop and Martyr
Day 290: Judas Maccabeus Dies — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 290: The Duties of Citizens — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Daily Defense Podcast With Jimmy Akin The Early Chapters of Genesis | Catholic Answers Podcasts
Here’s What Happen Last Week and Year in Life.
- 1534 – Anti-Catholic posters appear in Paris and other cities supporting Huldrych Zwingli‘s position on the Mass.
- 1931 – Al Capone is convicted of income tax evasion.
- 1933 – Albert Einstein flees Nazi Germany and moves to the United States.
- 1969 – The Caravaggio painting Nativity with St. Francis and St. Lawrence is stolen from the Oratory of Saint Lawrence in Palermo.[
- 2023-‘It touches every family’: Israeli man says niece among those kidnapped by Hamas
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Quote of the Day
Wednesday October 18, 2023
Saint Luke, Evangelist
Day 291: The Rise of King Alexander — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 291: The Political Community and the Church — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Daily Defense Podcast With Jimmy Akin Appealing to Natural Law | Catholic Answers Podcasts
Here’s What Happen Last Week and Year in Life.
- 1009 – The Church of the Holy Sepulchre, a Christian church in Jerusalem, is completely destroyed by the Fatimid caliph Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah, who hacks the Church’s foundations down to bedrock.
- 1281 – Pope Martin IV excommunicates King Peter III of Aragon[2] for usurping the crown of Sicily (a sentence renewed on 7 May and 18 November 1282).
- 1775 – African-American poet Phillis Wheatley is freed from slavery.
- 1851 – Herman Melville‘s Moby-Dick is first published as The Whale by Richard Bentley of London.
- 1922 – The British Broadcasting Company (later Corporation) is founded by a consortium, to establish a nationwide network of radio transmitters to provide a national broadcasting service.
- 2023-Pope Francis stresses need to put Jesus at the center of our lives
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Quote of the Day
Unworthy Hand@kisstheblade_(Oct 18, 2023) Yesterday I saw a rundown building – an older property that had been converted into a church – which had on its side, in big block red letters, “BROTHERHOOD OF THE CROSS AND STAR”, and I’m not sure I could come up with a more sinister name for a church if I tried.
Kevin Mulligan@MrDalesDiary (, 2023) I know a lot of people who say the daily rosary faithfully & who say many rosaries daily yet their hearts are very far from the Lord. Gossip, slander, detraction are all part of their daily diet. Any prayer is useless if it’s not effecting change especially within us personally.
Thursday October 19, 2023
USA: Saints John de Brébeuf and Isaac Jogues, Priests, red
and Companions, Martyrs
Day 292: The Power of Words — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 292: Respect for Human Life — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Daily Defense Podcast With Jimmy Akin Why Isn’t Everything Infallible? | Catholic Answers Podcasts
Here’s What Happen Last Week and Year in Life.
- 1984 – A Roman Catholic priest, Jerzy Popiełuszko, associated with the Solidarity Union, is killed by three agents of the Polish Communist internal intelligence agency.
- 2003 – Mother Teresa is beatified by Pope John Paul II.
- 2023-Catholics around the world join in prayer for peace in the Holy Land
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Quote of the Day
Pope Francis@Pontifex (Oct 19, 2023)The proclamation of Christ is one of hope. He knows the anguish and hope we bear in our hearts, the joys and struggles that mark our lives, the darkness that assails us, and the faith that we raise to Heaven like a song in the night. #MissionaryOctober #MissionMonth
Friday October 20, 2023
USA: Saint Paul of the Cross, Priest
Day 293: Discipline Grounded in Love — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 293: Legitimate Defense — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Daily Defense Podcast With Jimmy Akin Historical Polytheism | Catholic Answers Podcasts
Here’s What Happen Last Week and Year in Life.
- 1973 – Watergate scandal: “Saturday Night Massacre“: United States President Richard Nixon fires U.S. Attorney General Elliot Richardson and Deputy Attorney General William Ruckelshaus after they refuse to fire special prosecutor Archibald Cox, who is finally fired by Solicitor General Robert Bork.
- 1973 – The Sydney Opera House is opened by Elizabeth II after 14 years of construction.
- 2023-African Jesuit theologian believes synodality work ‘will begin’ after Rome meetings
Saturday October 21, 2023
Day 294: Judea Gains Independence — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 294: Homicide — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Daily Defense Podcast With Jimmy Akin Church Councils | Catholic Answers Podcasts
Here’s What Happen Last Week and Year in Life.
- 1512 – Martin Luther joins the theological faculty of the University of Wittenberg.
- 1879 – Thomas Edison applies for a patent for his design for an incandescent light bulb.
- 1921 – President Warren G. Harding delivers the first speech by a sitting U.S. president against lynching in the Deep South.
- 2021 – A shooting occurs on the set of the film Rust, in which actor Alec Baldwin discharged a prop weapon which had been loaded, killing the director of photography, Halyna Hutchins, and injuring director Joel Souza.
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Quote of the Day
A Catholic Adventurer@forthequeenbvm (October 21, 2023) 80s kids: Could you imagine Mr T being a parishioner at your parish?
Yes, Jesus and the Eucharist is the whole point. I’m with you. But let’s not kid each other, Mr. T sitting in the lees and hearing him saying stuff like “And with your spirit, fool!” Would make is just that much cooler.
Sunday October 22, 2023
TWENTY-NINTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME
Day 295: Israel’s Expectations — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 295: The Wound of Abortion — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Daily Defense Podcast With Jimmy Akin The Time of the Crucifixion | Catholic Answers Podcasts
Here’s What Happen Last Week and Year in Life.
- 1746 – The College of New Jersey (later renamed Princeton University) receives its charter.
- 1883 – The Metropolitan Opera House in New York City opens with a performance of Gounod’s Faust.
- 2023- Kristin (The Carmelite Catholic Bard) takes her 3rd order final promises as a secular carmelite.
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Quote of the Day
Fr. Joseph Krupp@Joeinblack (October 22, 2023)
I’ve got an idea:
Let’s take all the money Pharmaceutical Companies spend on commercials and put that toward some sort of health care system.
This could work.
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