In 2021 and 2023 I did a week in review each week for 52 weeks.
With August 2023 being a week in review.
This year in 2024 I will look the month coming up and what to expect in the weeks that compose that month.
This first post of 2024 is also post #590
The Need for a Defense | Catholic Answers Podcasts
January 1, 2024
Octave Day of Christmas, Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God
New Years Day
Saint Zygmunt Gorazdowski (November 1, 1845 –January 1, 1920)
Public Domain Day (Media from 1928)
Catholic Bard’s Guide to Public Domain Literature
Day 1: To Know and Love God — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 1: In the Beginning — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
George Lerner was born on January 01, 1922 and died on January 01, 1995.

January 2, 2024
Saints Basil the Great (1 or 2 January 379) and Gregory Nazianzen (c. 329 – 25 January 25, 390)
bishops and doctors of the Church – Memorial
Mark and Kristin’s Wedding Anniversary (2010)
Day 2: How the Catechism Works — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 2: The Fall of Adam and Eve — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
A Stone Too Heavy for God to Lift? | Catholic Answers Podcasts
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St Therese of Lisieux (1873-1897)
2023 Marks 150 Years since she was born.
1788 – Georgia becomes the fourth state to ratify the United States Constitution
Japanese Supercentenarian, Oldest Japanese person ever, Second oldest verified person in world history is born.

January 3, 2024
The Most Holy Name of Jesus– Optional Memorial
Day 3: What We Believe (Part 1 Introduction with Jeff Cavins) – YouTube
Day 3: Noah’s Ark — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Changing God’s Mind | Catholic Answers Podcasts
- 1840-Father Damien (January 3, 1840 – April, 15, 1889) the leaper priest is born.
- 1973- J.R.R. Tolkien author of The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings is born. (January 3rd, 1892 –September 2nd, 1973)
January 4, 2023

Day 4: The Flood — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
January 5, 2024
St. John Neumann (March 28, 1811 – January 5, 1860)
Day 5: How We Know God — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 5: Tower of Babel — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Sola Scriptura | Catholic Answers Podcasts
- 2023-Funeral mass for Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI is held in St. Peter’s Square
January 6, 2024
Epiphany Solemnity
Saint André of Montreal (August 9, 1845 – January 6, 1937)
Day 6: Knowing God With Certainty — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 6: Trust in the Lord — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Miracles and Probability | Catholic Answers Podcasts
- 1929 –St. Mother Teresa arrives by sea in India. She will eventually work among India’s poorest and sick people.
- 1955-Mr. Bean (Rowan Atkinson) is born.
Joseph not Joe ☮ ❤✝���@OLRefugeMonksCA (January 6, 2023) To those upset that Epiphany in the US is celebrated next Sunday and not today: I was very much alive in the pre-Vatican II days. When Jan 6 arrived we were back in school and the feast was pretty much ignored. Certain countries observe today as a national holiday and a holy day of obligation. Observing the feast on a Sunday allows US Catholics to focus on the importance of the feast and provides an opportunity to properly celebrate it, without the stress surrounding Dec. 25!
January 7, 2024
My Sister Laurie’s Birthday (1966)
Saint Raymond of Penyafort, (c. 1175 – 6 January 1275) priest – Optional Memorial
Day 7: God Reveals Himself — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 7: God’s Covenant with Abram— The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Suffering with a Purpose | Catholic Answers Podcasts
- 1844-St. Bernadette Soubirous (January 7, 1844 – April 16, 1879) is born.
- 1894 – Thomas Edison makes a kinetoscopic film of someone sneezing. On the same day, his employee, William Kennedy Dickson, receives a patent for motion picture film.
SPECIAL: Golden Globes (CBS)
January 8, 2024
Day 8: The Surrender of Abraham — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 8: God Forms his People — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Christianity and the Existence of Jesus | Catholic Answers Podcasts
- 1935-“King of Rock and Roll” Elvis Presley (January 08, 1935 – August 16, 1977 (age 42) is born.
January 9, 2024
Day 9: Sodom and Gomorrah — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 9: The Fullness of Revelation — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Traditions of Men Versus Sacred Tradition | Catholic Answers Podcasts
- 1431– The trial of Joan of Arc begins in Rouen.
- 1861 – Mississippi becomes the second state to secede from the Union before the outbreak of the American Civil War.
- 1902-Josemaría Escrivá (January 9, 1902 – June 26, 1975) founder of Opu Di is born.
- 1909– The Rosary Priest Fr. Patrick Peyton (January 9, 1909 – June 3, 1992) founder of Family Rosary Crusade and Family Theater is born.
SEASON PREMIERE: La Brea (NBC)
January 10, 2024
Day 10: Hagar and Ishmael — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 10: The Apostolic Tradition — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
The Religion of Your Parents | Catholic Answers Podcasts
- 1646-St. Isaac Jogues, S.J. ( January 10, 1607 – October 18, 1646) is born.
- 1861– American Civil War: Florida becomes the third state to secede from the Union.
- 2023- Australian CardinalGeorge Pell AC ( June 8, 1941 – January 10, 2023) dies.
January 11, 2024
Day 11: The Sacrifice of Isaac — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 11: Sources of Divine Revelation — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Science and the Supernatural | Catholic Answers Podcasts
- 1861 – American Civil War: Alabama secedes from the United States.
- 1935 – Amelia Earhart becomes the first person to fly solo from Hawaii to California.
- 2021-Pope Francis changes Catholic Church law in which women are explicitly allowed as lectors, altar servers.
January 12, 2024
Day 12: Isaac and Rebekah — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 12: Receiving Dogmas — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
The Word Was God | Catholic Answers Podcasts
January 13, 2024
Day 13: Esau Sells His Birthright — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 13: The Single Deposit of Faith — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Original Sin and Justice | Catholic Answers Podcasts
- 1888 – The National Geographic Society is founded in Washington, D.C.
- 2023- Americandaredevil and son of stunt performer Evel Knievel, Kaptain Robbie Knievel (May 7, 1962 – January 13, 2023) dies.
January 14, 2024
Day 14: Isaac Blesses Jacob — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 14: The Eternal Word of God — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Jesus as Messiah | Catholic Answers Podcasts
- 1899-Humphrey Bogart, (December 25, 1899 – January 14, 1957) dies.
January 15, 2024
Martin Luther King Jr. Day
@nottherealtraceydelaney@TraceyDelaney (January 16, 2023) The people who threw rocks at Martin Luther King now don’t want their grandkids learning that they threw rocks at Martin Luther King. Dr.King would have been the same age as Bob Newhart if he was still alive. This wasn’t hundreds of years ago. Never Forget. #MLKDay
Day 15: Leah Feels Unloved — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 15: Interpreting Scripture — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) (youtube.com)
The Anointing of the Sick | Catholic Answers Podcasts
- 1889 – The Coca-Cola Company, then known as the Pemberton Medicine Company, is incorporated in Atlanta.
- 2001 – Wikipedia, a free wiki content encyclopedia, goes online.
January 16, 2024
St. John of Ávila (January 16, 1499– 10 May 10, 1569) is declared a Doctor as well.
Day 16: Senses of Scripture — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
- 1605 – The first edition of El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha (Book One of Don Quixote) by Miguel de Cervantes is published in Madrid, Spain.
- 1909 – Ernest Shackleton‘s expedition finds the magnetic South Pole.
- 1919 – Nebraska becomes the 36th state to approve the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. With the necessary three-quarters of the states approving the amendment, Prohibition is constitutionally mandated in the United States one year later.
- 2013- André Cassagnes (September 23, 1926 – January 16, 2013) was a French inventor, electrical technician, toymaker, and kite designer. Cassagnes is best known as the inventor of the Etch A Sketch,(1960) a popular mechanical drawing toy manufactured since 2016 by Spin Master, formerly by the Ohio Art Company.[
January 17, 2024
Saint Anthony of Egypt, abbot – Memorial
- 1773 – Captain James Cook leads the first expedition to sail south of the Antarctic Circle.
Captain James Cook
January 18, 2024
January 18th: St. Prisca, Feast of the Chair of St. Peter of Rome
- 1882-Comic Legend Oliver Hardy, (January 18, 1892 – August 7, 1957) is born.
- 1952-The Three Stooges’ Curly Howard, (October 22, 1903 – January 18, 1952) dies.
- 1955-Kevin Costner (Field of Dreams) is born.
- 1993 – Martin Luther King, Jr. Day is officially observed for the first time in all 50 US states.
January 19, 2024
Sts. Marius, Martha and Sons, Martyrs, St. Canute, King and Martyr
Day 19: Joseph and His Brothers — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 19: Summary of Sacred Scripture — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Peter’s Sins | Catholic Answers Podcasts
- 1901 – Queen Victoria, Queen of the United Kingdom, stricken with paralysis. She dies three days later at the age of 81.
- 1937 – Howard Hughes sets a new air record by flying from Los Angeles to New York City in seven hours, 28 minutes, 25 seconds.
January 20, 2024
Saint Fabian, pope and martyr; or Saint Sebastian, martyr – Optional Memorial
Day 20: Judah and Tamar— The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 20: Stepping in Faith — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Baptism and Salvation | Catholic Answers Podcasts
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- 1961 – John F. Kennedy is inaugurated the 35th President of the United States of America, becoming the youngest man to be elected into that office, and the first Catholic.
- 1964– Meet the Beatles!, the first Beatles album from Capitol Records in the United States, is released ten days after Chicago’s Vee-Jay Records releases Introducing… The Beatles. The two record companies battle it out in court for months, eventually coming to a conclusion.
- 1967-First Super Bowl is broadcast.
- 1981 – Twenty minutes after Ronald Reagan is inaugurated as the 40th President of the United States of America, Iran releases 52 American hostages.
- 1986 – In the United States, Martin Luther King Jr. Day (January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) is celebrated as a federal holiday for the first time.
- 2009 – Barack Obama is inaugurated as the 44th President of the United States of America, becoming the first African-American President of the United States.Region.[14]
- 2021 – Joe Biden is inaugurated as the 46th President of the United States of America. At 78, he becomes the oldest person ever inaugurated. Kamala Harris becomes the first female Vice President of the United States.
January 21, 2024
21 January: Saint Agnes, virgin and martyr – Memorial
Mary Angeline Teresa McCrory, Carm., (21 January 1893 – 21 January 1984)
She founded the order who ran the nursing home
where I worked at St. Patrick’s Manor in Framingham, MA
Day 21: Walking with God — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 21: Believing God — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
The Dating of John | Catholic Answers Podcasts
- 1959-Cecil B. DeMille (August 12, 1881 – January 21, 1959) dies.
- 1959-Carl Switzer, (August 8, 1927 – January 21, 1959) who starred in Our Gang comedies dies.
- 1959-Charles Raymond “Charlie” Starkweather (November 24, 1938 – June 25, 1959) dies. He was an American spree killer who murdered eleven people in Nebraska and Wyoming between December 1957 and January 1958, when he was 19 years old. He killed ten of his victims between January 21 and January 29, 1958, the date of his arrest. During his spree in 1958, Starkweather was accompanied by his 14-year-old girlfriend, Caril Ann Fugate.
January 22, 2024
Saint Vincent, deacon and martyr – Optional Memorial
Day 22: Go to Joseph — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 22: Wrestling with Faith — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
“Queen of Heaven” Condemned? | Catholic Answers Podcasts
- 1506 – The first contingent of 150 Swiss Guards arrives at the Vatican.
- 1893-Catholic Novelist Fulton Oursler (January 22, 1893 – May 24, 1952) is born.
- 1922-Pope Benedict XV (November 21, 1854 –January 22, 1922) dies.
- 1957 – The New York City “Mad Bomber”, George P. Metesky, is arrested in Waterbury, Connecticut and charged with planting more than 30 bombs.
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January 23, 2024
USA: Day of Prayer for the Legal Protection of Unborn Children
Day 23: Judah Changes — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 23: We Believe — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTubeWho Bought the Field of Blood? | Catholic Answers Podcasts
- 1964-Pope Paul VI institutes the World Day of Prayer for Vocations. During this celebration the Pope reminds the universal Church that still today salvation comes to everyone. It continues to be celebrated every Fourth Sunday of Easter (also known as Good Shepherd Sunday).
January, 24 2024
Saint Francis de Sales, Bishop and Doctor of the Church
“Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself.
Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections,
but instantly set about remedying them—every day begin the task anew.”
―Day 24: Tears of Joy — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 24: Unity of Faith — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTubeThe Moral Argument | Catholic Answers Podcasts
The Gold Rush
- 1848 – California Gold Rush: James W. Marshall finds gold at Sutter’s Mill near Sacramento.
January 25, 2024
The Conversion of Saint Paul the Apostle
Day 25: Job’s Questioning — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 25: Summary of Faith — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTubeJesus’ Celibacy | Catholic Answers Podcasts
- 1959- Pope John XXIII announces that the Second Vatican Council will be convened in Rome.
- 1971 – Charles Manson and four “Family” members (three of them female) are found guilty of the 1969 Tate–LaBianca murders.
- 1978-January 25–27 – The Great Blizzard of 1978 strikes the Ohio Valley and Great Lakes, killing 70.
- 1996 – Billy Bailey becomes the last person to be hanged in the United States.
- 1998 – During a historic visit to Cuba, Pope John Paul II demands political reforms and the release of political prisoners while condemning US attempts to isolate the country.
January 26, 2024
Saints Timothy and Titus, Bishops
Day 26: God Responds to Job — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 26: Communion of Believers — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTubeThe Book of Acts and History | Catholic Answers Podcasts
- 1837 – Michigan is admitted as the 26th U.S. state.
- 1905- Maria Von Trapp (January 26, 1905 –March 28, 1987) is born.
January 27, 2024
[Saint Angela Merici, Virgin]
My 53rd Birthday
Day 27: The Birth of Moses — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 27: The Gift of the Creed — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTubeThe Language of the Deuterocanonicals | Catholic Answers Podcasts
1971 The Second Vatican Council, began on October 11, 1962 by Pope John XXIII and was closed by Pope Paul VI on the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception on December 8, 1965. So just 6 years later on..
January 27th-The Catechist is Born in Beverly Hospital. I was an unexpected baby. My parents didn’t think they would have any more kids. But Surprise!! I was later Baptized within the next month, thus putting that mark (LOL) on my soul identifying me as a Catholic. While I was a babe in my mother’s arms.
A shadowy group of people decided they needed to begin an investigation of the FBI, something that just needed to be done because nobody else was doing it. And they decided to do this with a burglary. This is the subject of a podcast of Jimmy Akin’s Mysterious World in which he mentions an inclusive interviewgiven to the Catholic Bard about his podcast.
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January 28, 2024
Saint Thomas Aquinas, Priest and Doctor of the Church
Wonder was the motive that led people to philosophy …
wonder is a kind of desire in knowledge. It is the cause of delight because it carries with it the hope of discovery.— Saint Thomas AquinasIn a summarized form, from Summa Theologiae (1266-73), I-II, Q.32.a.8Day 28: The Burning Bush — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 28: The Nature of God — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTubeThe Holy Spirit Is a Person | Catholic Answers Podcasts
- 1956 – Elvis Presley makes his first national television appearance.
- 1958 – The Lego company patents the design of its Lego bricks, still compatible with bricks produced today.
- 2023-Lisa Loring (born Lisa Ann DeCinces; February 16, 1958 – January 28, 2023) was an American actress. She is best known for her work as a child actress playing Wednesday Addams at six years old on the 1964–1966 sitcom The Addams Family.
January 29, 2024
Day 29: Moses Returns to Egypt — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 29: Knowing the Name of God — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTubeSpirituality and Organized Religion | Catholic Answers Podcasts
The RavenOnce upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,
Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore—
While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,
As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.
“‘Tis some visiter,” I muttered, “tapping at my chamber door—
Only this and nothing more.”—Edgar Allan Poe- 1845 – “The Raven” is published in The Evening Mirror in New York, the first publication with the name of the author, Edgar Allan Poe.includes Iraq, Iran and North Korea.
- 2010-Father Dowling Author Ralph Matthew McInerny (February 24, 1929 – January 29, 2010) dies.
January 30, 2024
Day 30: Nile Turned to Blood — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 30: God Is Who Is — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTubeA Continuing Papacy | Catholic Answers Podcasts
- 1933 – Adolf Hitler’s rise to power: Hitler takes office as the Chancellor of Germany.
- 1956 – In the United States, Civil Rights Movement leader Martin Luther King Jr.‘s home is bombed in retaliation for the Montgomery bus boycott.
- 1969 – The Beatles‘ last public performance, on the roof of Apple Records in London. The impromptu concert is broken up by the police.
- 1972 –Sunday Bloody Sunday, or the Bogside Massacre, takes place in the Bogside area of Derry, Northern Ireland, when British soldiers shot 26 unarmed civilians during a protest march against internment without trial. Fourteen Catholics are shot dead. U2 latter writes a hit song about this sad event.
- 2020 – The World Health Organization declares the COVID-19 pandemic to be a Public Health Emergency of International Concern.
- 2023- The Chinese Spy Balloon entered Canadian airspace over the Northwest Territories. It first entered U.S. Space on January 28 north of Aleutian Islands in Alaska.
January 31, 2024
Saint John Bosco, Priest
National Hot Chocolate Day
Day 31: Frogs, Gnats, and Flies — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 31: The Meaning of Faith — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTubeLiteral versus Non-literal Accounts | Catholic Answers Podcasts
Here’s What Happen Last Week and Year in Life.
- 1956- Winnie the Pooh creator, A.A. Milne, (January 18, 1882 –January 31, 1956) dies.
- 1971-Apollo 14 departs for the moon
- 2023-The Chinese Spy Balloon reentered U.S. airspace over northern Idaho.
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