The Week started out tragically last week and spilled over into this week as violence and war continued to dominate the news and history. May the peace that God desires for all humanity be realized before too many more innocent lives are lost by the conflict between the leaders who lead their people.
��. ������, ��@dismasop (October 9, 2023) A lot of people are going to have very visceral reactions to the Gaza-Israel conflict, because it’s very personal for them. Most of these reactions will be at least cringey, if not awful, from little data. And that’s human and understandable. Regardless, pray.
Here’s What Happen Last Week and Year in Life.
Monday October 9, 2023
[Saint Denis, Bishop, and Companions, Martyrs; Saint John Leonardi, Priest]
Columbus Day/Indigenous Peoples Day\Leif Erikson Day
Day 282: Antiochus Desecrates the Temple — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 282: The Sunday Obligation — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Daily Defense Podcast With Jimmy Akin Petros versus Petra | Catholic Answers Podcasts
Here’s What Happen Last Week and Year in Life.
- 1410 – The first known mention of the Prague astronomical clock.
- 1635 – Roger Williams is banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony after religious and policy disagreements.
- 1874 – The Universal Postal Union is created by the Treaty of Bern.
- 1834 – Opening of the Dublin and Kingstown Railway, the first public railway on the island of Ireland.
- 1847 – Slavery is abolished in the Swedish colony of Saint Barthélemy.
- 936 – Boulder Dam (later Hoover Dam) begins to generate electricity and transmit it to Los Angeles.
- 1937 – Murder of 9 Catholic priests in Zhengding, China, who protected the local population from the advancing Japanese army.
- 1980 – Pope John Paul II greets the Dalai Lama during a private audience in Vatican City.
- 1986 – The Phantom of the Opera, eventually the second longest running musical in London, opens at Her Majesty’s Theatre.
- 1986 – Fox Broadcasting Company (FBC) launches as the fourth US television network.
- 2023–Israel unleashes attacks on Gaza as Hamas threatens hostages’ livesThere are still a number of unaccounted-for U.S. citizens, U.S. officials said, as the fighting entered its third day.
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Quotes of the Day
Mother Adela@motheradela (October 9, 2023) Today, Guatemala is in a serious situation of violence. Another country suffering lack of peace, the horror of violence and destruction. We face a terrible crisis in the world? Pray the rosary for peace, said Our Lady. Let’s create a chain of rosaries to defeat this evil spirit.
Jaymes--Lantern@JaymesLackey (October 9, 2023)It doesn’t seem particularly hard to say:(1) Hamas targeting civilians is evil(2) Israel’s treatment of Palestinians has been and continues to be evil(3) Christ is always on the side of widows, orphans, immigrants, and the poor and stands against all violence and empires. -
Pope Francis@Pontifex (October 9, 2023)One of the tasks of the #Synod is to journey together and to listen to one another, so that the Spirit can suggest to us new ways and paths to bring the Gospel to the hearts of those who are distant, indifferent or without hope, yet continue to seek “a great joy” (Mt 2:10).
You do not need to echo the talking heads. You do not need to have a hot take.
Show us instead the small, mundane, beautiful moments of your early autumn. The bright apples, the unearthed blankets, the baked goods.
All infinitely superior to opining on The Current Thing ™.
Tuesday October 10, 2023
Day 283: Mattathias Attacks — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 283: The Day of Rest — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Daily Defense Podcast With Jimmy Akin The Benefits of Religion | Catholic Answers Podcasts
Here’s What Happen Last Week and Year in Life.
- 1492 – The crew of Christopher Columbus‘s ship, the Santa Maria, attempt a mutiny
- 1913 – U.S. President Woodrow Wilson triggers the explosion of the Gamboa Dike, completing major construction on the Panama Canal.
- 1964 – The Tokyo Summer Olympics opening ceremony is the first to be relayed live by satellites.
- 1973 – U.S. Vice President Spiro Agnew resigns after being charged with evasion of federal income tax.
- 2023-U.S. bishops launch mental health campaign with special novena, discussions
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Quote of the Day
Kevin@KevinAshbrook(October 10, 2023) TFW you have to get up early but rather than going to bed earlier you just try to make yourself sleep half an hour harder
Wednesday October 11, 2023
[Saint John XXIII, Pope]
Day 284: Near Occasion of Sin — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 284: The Fourth Commandment — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Daily Defense Podcast With Jimmy Akin Justification in James and Paul | Catholic Answers Podcasts
Here’s What Happen Last Week and Year in Life.
- 1890 – In Washington, D.C., the Daughters of the American Revolution is founded.
- 1906 – San Francisco sparks a diplomatic crisis between the United States and Japan by ordering segregated schools for Japanese students.
- 1962 – The Second Vatican Council becomes the first ecumenical council of the Roman Catholic Church in 92 years.
- 1986 – Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev meet in Iceland to continue discussions about scaling back IRBM arsenals in Europe.
- 1987 – The AIDS Memorial Quilt is first displayed during the Second National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights.
- 2023-Women Maya softballers brush off machismo insults to become Mexican superstarsThe team is called Las Amazonas de Yaxunah. They’ve defied gender stereotypes to become sports heroes. And these women and teens play the game wearing traditional Maya dresses — and no shoes.,
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Quote of the Day
Father Jim Sichko@JimSichko (October 11, 2023) We need to acknowledge that too many critics of Francis speak from an anger that defeats itself and ends by being unjust. His commitment to the poor, his emphasis on mercy, his passion for accompanying the lost and alienated, and his willingness to reach out to the margins: all these things are gifts to the whole Church. They deserve our gratitude and praise. So does his teaching on issues like gender, the sanctity of life, and bioethics . . . much of which is ignored by the mainstream media.
Thursday October 12, 2023
Day 285: Story of Hanukkah — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 285: The Nature of the Family — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Daily Defense Podcast With Jimmy Akin Can Science Eliminate God? | Catholic Answers Podcasts
Here’s What Happen Last Week and Year in Life.
- 1692 – The Salem witch trials are ended by a letter from Province of Massachusetts Bay Governor William Phips.
- 1799 – Jeanne Geneviève Labrosse becomes the first woman to jump from a balloon with a parachute.
- 1792 – The first celebration of Columbus Day is held in New York City.
- 1810 – The citizens of Munich hold the first Oktoberfest in celebration of the marriage of Crown Prince Louis of Bavaria and Princess Therese of Saxe-Hildburghausen.
- 1901 – President Theodore Roosevelt officially renames the “Executive Mansion” to the White House.
- 1973 – President Nixon nominates House Minority Leader Gerald R. Ford as the successor to Vice President Spiro T. Agnew.
- 2023-Rudolph Isley, a founding member of the Isley Brothers, has died at 84He was among the Isleys inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1992.
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Quote of the Day
Megan Fritts@freganmitts (October 12, 2023) “I like horror films but nothing supernatural” NO. Tough nuts. Horror films have monsters/poltergeists/demons. What’s the alternative? Break-ins? Kidnapping/torture/Saw-style stuff? Sorry that’s not a horror film that’s sicko fuel. Are you a sicko??
Friday October 13, 2023
Day 286: The Battle to Choose God — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 286: The Family and Society — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Daily Defense Podcast With Jimmy Akin Being Born Again in Scripture | Catholic Answers Podcasts
Here’s What Happen Last Week and Year in Life.
- 1792 – In Washington, D.C., the cornerstone of the United States Executive Mansion (known as the White House since 1818) is laid.
- 1843 – In New York City, B’nai B’rith, the oldest Jewish service organization in the world, is founded.
- 1881 – First known conversation in modern Hebrew by Eliezer Ben-Yehuda and friends.
- 1903 – The Boston Red Sox win the first modern World Series, defeating the Pittsburgh Pirates in the eighth game.
- 1917- This day marked the last Marian apparition in Fátima and the day on which thousands of people bore witness to the miracle of the dancing sun — a miracle that shattered the prevalent belief at the time that God was no longer relevant. Catholic News Agency
- 2023-Whoopi Goldberg reveals ‘remarkable’ meeting with Pope Francis | Catholic News Agency
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Quote of the Day
Old Haunted Tree �@OldHollowTree (Oct 13, 2023)·
I will never try to get you riled up for some political cause, for religion, or for a country.My agenda is thus: I want you to fall deeply in love with your home, to be good to your family, to make new and to uphold old traditions, and to love with outrageous and wild abandon.
Saturday October 14, 2023
Saint Callistus I, Pope and Martyr; BVM
Day 287: Eleazar’s Sacrifice — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 287: The Gratitude of Children — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Daily Defense Podcast Being With Jimmy Akin Born Again in the Church Fathers | Catholic Answers Podcasts
Here’s What Happen Last Week and Year in Life.
- 1586 – Mary, Queen of Scots, goes on trial for conspiracy against Queen Elizabeth I of England
- 1888 – Louis Le Prince films the first motion picture, Roundhay Garden Scene.
- 1912 – Former president Theodore Roosevelt is shot and mildly wounded by John Flammang Schrank. With the fresh wound in his chest, and the bullet still within it, Roosevelt delivers his scheduled speech.
- 1962 – The Cuban Missile Crisis begins when an American reconnaissance aircraft takes photographs of Soviet ballistic missiles being installed in Cuba.
- 1964 – Martin Luther King Jr. receives the Nobel Peace Prize for combating racial inequality through nonviolence.
- 2023-Catholic pilgrimage group walks and prays the Katy Trail
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Quote of the Day
Spooky Canadian Monarchy Respecter @CdnMnrchyRspctr (October 14, 2023) Guys, its not that complicated The synod is a meeting, not a teaching element. The pope just wanted a giant consultative body to do lots of fun listening. At the end, no doctrine will change, no defecting will occur. There will cringe opinions cause sinners live in the church.
Sunday October 15, 2023
TWENTY-EIGHTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME
St. Teresa Of Avila – Doctor Of The Church
Day 288: Battling Against Gossip — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 288: The Duties of Parents — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Daily Defense Podcast With Jimmy Akin Quoting the Deuterocanonicals | Catholic Answers Podcasts
Here’s What Happen Last Week and Year in Life.
- 1878 – The Edison Electric Light Company begins operation.
- 1888 – The “From Hell” letter allegedly sent by Jack the Ripper is received by investigators.
- 1910 – Airship America is launched from New Jersey in the first attempt to cross the Atlantic by a powered aircraft.
- 1928 – The airship Graf Zeppelin completes its first trans-Atlantic flight, landing at Lakehurst, New Jersey, United States.
- 1989 – Wayne Gretzky becomes the all-time leading points scorer in the NHL.
- 1990 – Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to lessen Cold War tensions and open up his nation.
- 2018 – 13-year-old American girl, Jayme Closs, is kidnapped from her Barron, Wisconsin home after her parents were both murdered.[
- 2023-Pope Francis highlights ‘little greatness’ of St. Thérèse of Lisieux in apostolic letter
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Quote of the Day
Dawn Eden Goldstein, JCL, SThD @DawnofMercy (October 15, 2023) Praying hard for peace in the Holy Land & an end to the terrible cycle of revenge. I stand against antisemitism, against Hamas, against terrorism, & every form of hate, and I am appalled at the horrors being perpetrated against Gazan civilians. It all must stop. Lord have mercy.
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