Thursday February 1, 2024

Saint Brigid of Ireland and Saint Ignatius of Antioch

Day 32: Cattle, Boils, and Hail — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube 
Day 32: The Most Holy Trinity — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube

Calling Priests “Father” | Catholic Answers Podcasts

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

• 1865 – President Abraham Lincoln signs the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
• 1884 – The first volume (A to Ant) of the Oxford English Dictionary is published. 
• 1893 – Thomas A. Edison finishes construction of the first motion picture studio, the Black Maria in West Orange, New Jersey.  
• 2023-The Chinese Spy Balloon continues its U.S. Tour over Montana, South Dakota, and Nebraska.
• 2023-Tom Brady announces he’s retiring for good.

  February 1, 2024 will mark the 6th anniversary of Where Peter Is – there is the Church

  Here is my contribution… A snapshot of the world of Vatican II – Where Peter Is

  Friday February 2, 2024

The Presentation of the Lord

That’s right Wood Chuck Chuckers, it’s Groundhog day!

It’s also Candlemas 

Maria Domenica Mantovani – 2 February 2,1934)

Day 33: Locusts, Darkness, and Death of the First Born — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 33: God as Father — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube

John the Baptist and Reincarnation | Catholic Answers Podcasts

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

• 1653 –Even Old New York was once  New Amsterdam . That great city is incorporated on this day.
• 1925 – Serum run to Nome: Dog sleds reach Nome, Alaska with diphtheria serum, inspiring the Iditarod race.
• 1959 –The Dyatlov Pass incident – Nine experienced ski hikers in the northern Ural
• 2023– The Chinese Spy Balloon is probably somewhere flying over some American city.
• 2023–30-year-old Bobi breaks record for world’s oldest dog ever – CBS News

 Saint Blaise, Bishop and Martyr; Saint Ansgar, Bishop

Mother Mary Elizabeth Lange

Saint Claudine Thévenet

Day 34: The Passover Instituted — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 34: Unity in the Holy Spirit — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube

Whom Did Jesus Pray To? | Catholic Answers Podcasts

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

• 1690 – The colony of Massachusetts issues the first paper money in the Americas.
• 1809 – The Territory of Illinois is created by the 10th United States Congress.
• 1913 – The Sixteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, authorizing the Federal government to impose and collect an income tax.
• 2023– The Chinese Spy Balloon continues on and is seen Kansas, Missouri and makes its way towards North Carolina.

• Sunday February 4,  2024

FIFTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME

Claude Newman

Day 35: Crossing the Red Sea — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 35: Formation of Trinitarian Dogma — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube

How Did the Field of Blood Get Its Name? | Catholic Answers Podcasts

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

• 1789 – George Washington is unanimously elected as the first President of the United States by the U.S. Electoral College. 
• 1938 – Adolf Hitler appoints himself as head of the Armed Forces High Command.
• 2023- The Chinese Spy Balloon is finally shot down  over the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of South Carolina after trekking  across America taking in the sites.

Monday February 5, 2024

Saint Agatha, virgin and martyr – Memorial

St. Philip of Jesus (Felipe of Jesus)

Day 36: Manna from Heaven — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmidt
Day 36: The Nature of the Trinity — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube

Do the Saints Pray for Us? | Catholic Answers Podcasts

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

• 1869 – The largest alluvial gold nugget in history, called the “Welcome Stranger“, is found in Moliagul, Victoria, Australia.
• 1958 – A hydrogen bomb known as the Tybee Bomb is lost by the US Air Force off the coast of Savannah, Georgia, never to be recovered.
• 1971 – Astronauts land on the Moon in the Apollo 14 mission.
• 2019 – Pope Francis becomes the first Pope in history to visit and perform papal mass in the Arabian Peninsula during his visit to Abu Dhabi.
• 2020 – United States President Donald Trump is acquitted by the United States Senate in his first impeachment trial.
• 2023-Pope Francis’ in-flight press conference: God accompanies people with same-sex attraction | Catholic News Agency

Tuesday February 6,  2024

Wednesday February 7,  2024

Day 38: The Ten Commandments — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 38: Summary of the Trinity — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube

Suffering with No Clear Purpose | Catholic Answers Podcasts

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

• 1795 – The 11th Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified.
• 1900 – A Chinese immigrant in San Francisco falls ill to bubonic plague in the first plague epidemic in the continental United States. 
• 2013 – The U.S. state of Mississippi officially certifies the Thirteenth Amendment, becoming the last state to approve the abolition of slavery. The Thirteenth Amendment was formally ratified by Mississippi in 1995.

Thursday February 8, 2024

Saint Jerome Emiliani; Saint Josephine Bakhita, Virgin

Day 39: Slavery in the Old Testament — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 39: The Father Almighty — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube

The Concept of the Trinity | Catholic Answers Podcasts

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

• 1587 – Mary, Queen of Scots, is executed on suspicion of having been involved in the Babington Plot to murder her cousin, Queen Elizabeth I.
• 1837 – Richard Johnson becomes the first Vice President of the United States chosen by the United States Senate.
• 1865 – Delaware refuses to ratify the Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Slavery was outlawed in the United States, including Delaware, when the Amendment was ratified by the requisite number of states on December 6, 1865. Delaware ratified the Thirteenth Amendment on February 12, 1901, which was the ninety-second anniversary of the birth of Abraham Lincoln.
• 1924 – Capital punishment: The first state execution in the United States by gas chamber takes place in Nevada.
• 1960 – The Hollywood Walk of Fame is established. 
• 1974 – After 84 days in space, the crew of Skylab 4, the last crew to visit American space station Skylab, returns to Earth.
• 1978 – Proceedings of the United States Senate are broadcast on radio for the first time.
• 1990-George de Mestral (June 19, 1907 –  February 8, 1990) dies.  He was the Swiss electrical engineer genius who gave us the revolutionary hook and loop fastener known as Velcro in 1952.

Friday February 9, 2024

Miguel Febres Cordero (1854–1910), De La Salle Brother (Ecuador)

Margaret Haughery

John Henry Newman

Day 40: Laws of Justice — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 40: God Is the Creator — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube

Four Hundred Silent Years? | Catholic Answers Podcasts

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

• 1621 – Gregory XV becomes Pope, the last Pope elected by acclamation. 
• 1825 – After no candidate receives a majority of electoral votes in the US presidential election of 1824, the United States House of Representatives elects John Quincy Adams as sixth President of the United States in a contingent election.
• 1861 – American Civil War: Jefferson Davis is elected the Provisional President of the Confederate States of America by the Provisional Confederate Congress at Montgomery, Alabama
• 1895 – William G. Morgan creates a game called Mintonette, which soon comes to be referred to as volleyball.
• 1964 – The Beatles make their first appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show, performing before a record-setting audience of 73 million viewers across the United States.
• 2021 – Second impeachment trial of Donald Trump begins.

Saturday February 10,  2024

José Sánchez del Río/Saint Scholastica

Day 41: The Day of Atonement — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 41: Origins and Ends — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube

Absent from the Body | Catholic Answers Podcasts

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

• 1355 – The St Scholastica Day riot breaks out in Oxford, England, leaving 63 scholars and perhaps 30 locals dead in two days. 
• 1861 – Jefferson Davis is notified by telegraph that he has been chosen as provisional President of the Confederate States of America.
• 1967 – The 25th Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified.
• 1982-Phase 10 is created by game inventor Kenneth R. Johnson in Detroit, Michigan at age 22, Phase 10 is a rummy-type game with a twist.

Sunday February 11, 2024

Our Lady of Lourdes

SIXTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME

Day 42: Moral Laws — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 42: The Work of Creation — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube

What Happened at Jesus’ Tomb? | Catholic Answers Podcasts

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

• 1858 – Bernadette Soubirous‘s first vision of the Blessed Virgin Mary occurs in Lourdes, France. 
• 1906 – Pope Pius X publishes the encyclical Vehementer Nos. 
• 1999 – Pluto crosses Neptune’s orbit, ending a nearly 20-year period when it was closer to the Sun than the gas giant; Pluto is not expected to interact with Neptune’s orbit again until 2231.
• 2013 – The Vatican confirmed that Pope Benedict XVI would resign the papacy as a result of his advanced age.
• 2020 – COVID-19 pandemic: The World Health Organization officially names the coronavirus outbreak as COVID-19, with the virus being designated SARS-CoV-2.

Monday February 12, 2024

Day 43: The Ark of the Covenant — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 43: Creation Is Good — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube

Statues of Saints | Catholic Answers Podcasts

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

• 1909 – The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is founded.
• 1946 – African American United States Army veteran Isaac Woodard is severely beaten by a South Carolina police officer to the point where he loses his vision in both eyes. The incident later galvanizes the civil rights movement and partially inspires Orson Welles‘ film Touch of Evil.
• 1994 – Four thieves break into the National Gallery of Norway and steal Edvard Munch‘s iconic painting The Scream.
• 1999 – United States President Bill Clinton is acquitted by the United States Senate in his impeachment trial.
• 2016 – Pope Francis and Patriarch Kirill sign an Ecumenical Declaration in the first such meeting between leaders of the Catholic and Russian Orthodox Churches since their split in 1054.

Tuesday February 13,  2024

James Alfred Miller (Leo William) [Santiago]

Lúcia of Fátima

Mardi Gras (Mardi Gras)

Shrove Tuesday

Saints Cyril, Monk, and Methodius, Bishop white

Valentine’s Day

Day 45: Pray for Priests — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 45: Summary of Creation — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube

Confessing to a Priest | Catholic Answers Podcasts

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

While You Were Giving Out V-Day Cards, This Happen… | Mark Wilson (patheos.com)

1912–Arizona becomes the 48th State.

2023-US intercepts four Russian war plans near Alaska

•  Quotes of the Day

  St. John the Baptist Catholic Church Mount Vernon@StJohnsMV (Feb 15,2023) Happy Valentine‘s Day! St. Valentine has been shown to have been a real man, however his life story is mostly legendary. What is known is he was a Priest who married couples against the Law. He was a Martyr for this, he supposedly left his jailors a note signed “your Valentine“

Thursday February 15, 2024

Day 46: Set Apart for God — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 46: Heaven and Earth — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube

The Kalam Argument | Catholic Answers Podcasts

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

• 1879 – Women’s rights: US President Rutherford B. Hayes signs a bill allowing female attorneys to argue cases before the Supreme Court of the United States.
• 1923 – Greece becomes the last European country to adopt the Gregorian calendar.
• 1925 – The 1925 serum run to Nome: The second delivery of serum arrives in Nome, Alaska.
• 1933 – In Miami, Giuseppe Zangara attempts to assassinate US President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt, but instead shoots Chicago mayor Anton J. Cermak, who dies of his wounds on March 6.
• 1971 – The decimalisation of the currencies of the United Kingdom and Ireland is completed on Decimal Day.
• 1972 – Sound recordings are granted U.S. federal copyright protection for the first time.

Friday February 16, 2024

Day 47: The Golden Calf — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 47: The Golden Calf — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube

Objections to the Kalam Argument | Catholic Answers Podcasts

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

• 1945 – The Alaska Equal Rights Act of 1945, the first anti-discrimination law in the United States, was signed into law.^[10]
• 1959 – Fidel Castro becomes Premier of Cuba after dictator Fulgencio Batista was overthrown on January 1.
• 1978 – The first computer bulletin board system is created (CBBS in Chicago).
• 2006 – The last Mobile army surgical hospital (MASH) is decommissioned by the United States Army.

Saturday February 17, 2024

The Seven Holy Founders of the Servite Order

Day 48: God’s Presence — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 48: Creation in Order — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube

Praying for the Dead | Catholic Answers Podcasts

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

• 1801 – United States presidential election: A tie in the Electoral College between Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr is resolved when Jefferson is elected President of the United States and Burr Vice President by the United States House of Representatives.
• 1913 – The Armory Show opens in New York City, displaying works of artists who are to become some of the most influential painters of the early 20th century.
• 1965 – Project Ranger: The Ranger 8 probe launches on its mission to photograph the Mare Tranquillitatis region of the Moon in preparation for the manned Apollo missions. Mare Tranquillitatis or the “Sea of Tranquility” would become the site chosen for the Apollo 11 lunar landing.
• 1972 – Cumulative sales of the Volkswagen Beetle exceed those of the Ford Model T.

Sunday February 18, 2024

FIRST SUNDAY OF LENT

Day 49: The Year of Jubilee — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 49: We Are Created For Worship — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube

How the Star of Bethlehem Moved | Catholic Answers Podcasts

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

• 1911 – The first official flight with airmail takes place from Allahabad, United Provinces, British India (now India), when Henri Pequet, a 23-year-old pilot, delivers 6,500 letters to Naini, about 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) away.
• 1915 – U-boat Campaign: The Imperial German Navy institutes unrestricted submarine warfare in the waters around Great Britain and Ireland.^[4]
• 1930 – While studying photographs taken in January, Clyde Tombaugh discovers Pluto.
• 1930 – Elm Farm Ollie becomes the first cow to fly in a fixed-wing aircraft and also the first cow to be milked in an aircraft.
• 1954 – The first Church of Scientology is established in Los Angeles.

  Matt Pearce �@mattdpearce (February 18, 2023) Roald Dahl’s books have been edited to stop calling people fat so much, plus other offensive things. This is being described as “woke.” I would reply that hardly anyone on here has read unfiltered Dahl, who has periodically needed, um, revision.Roald Dahl’s books have been edited to stop calling people fat so much – Los Angeles Times (latimes.com) I don’t know why I picked this hill to tweet on. If you really want to pump your 8-year-old’s veins full of undiluted Dahl to educate them on the historicity of the 20th century, perhaps you can obtain one of the 300 million copies in circulation through some sort of samizdat.

Monday February 19,  2024

Day 50: Sacrificial Offerings — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 50: The Dignity of Man — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube

Sola Scriptura and the Bereans | Catholic Answers Podcasts

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

• 1878 – Thomas Edison patents the phonograph.
• 1884 – More than sixty tornadoes strike the Southern United States, one of the largest tornado outbreaks in U.S. history.
• 1906-Kellogg’s Cereal Company was founded by Will Keith Kellogg. as Battle Creek Toasted Corn Flake Company in Battle Creek, Michigan, U.S.
• 1948 – The Conference of Youth and Students of Southeast Asia Fighting for Freedom and Independence convenes in Calcutta.
• 1985 – William J. Schroeder becomes the first recipient of an artificial heart to leave the hospital.
• 2012 – Forty-four people are killed in a prison brawl in Apodaca, Nuevo León, Mexico.
• 2023-Murder probe launched in fatal shooting of ‘Peacemaker’ bishop in Los Angeles – ABC News

•  Quote of the Day

  Angela@TheWakingTulip(February 19, 2023) When you know you’re small like a child, you can create largely uninhibited. It’s when we think we have to impress, be larger than we are, that our fears of creating grow large. – Ann Voskamp

Tuesday February 20, 2024

Sts. Francisco and Jacinta Marto

Wednesday February 21, 2024

[Saint Peter Damian, Bishop and Doctor of the Church]

This Day in History – What Happened Today – HISTORY

Day 52: Israel Continues to Journey — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 52: Male and Female — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube

Apostolic Traditions Outside Scripture | Catholic Answers Podcasts

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

• 1804 – The first self-propelling steam locomotive makes its outing at the Pen-y-Darren Ironworks in Wales.
• 1848 – Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels publish The Communist Manifesto.
• 1878 – The first telephone directory is issued in New Haven, Connecticut.
• 1885 – The newly completed Washington Monument is dedicated.
• 1925 – The New Yorker publishes its first issue.
• 1952 – The British government, under Winston Churchill, abolishes identity cards in the UK to “set the people free”.
• 1965 – Malcolm X is gunned down while giving a speech at the Audubon Ballroom in Harlem.
• 1972 – United States President Richard Nixon visits China to normalize Sino-American relations.
• 1972 – The Soviet unmanned spaceship Luna 20 lands on the Moon.
• 1975 – Watergate scandal: Former United States Attorney General John N. Mitchell and former White House aides H. R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman are sentenced to prison.
• 2023-The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department announced the arrest of a suspect, Carlos Medina, in the death of Catholic Bishop David O’Connell. Medina is the husband of the bishop’s housekeeper. (Newsweek)

Thursday February 22, 2024

The Chair of Saint Peter the Apostle

Day 53: The Twelve Tribes of Israel — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 53: Man in Paradise — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube

Repentance and Salvation | Catholic Answers Podcasts

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

• 1879 – In Utica, New York, Frank Woolworth opens the first of many of five-and-dime Woolworth stores. 
• 1881 – Cleopatra’s Needle, a 3,500-year-old Ancient Egyptian obelisk is erected in Central Park, New York. 
• 1885-Washington Monument dedicated
• 1889 – President Grover Cleveland signs a bill admitting North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana and Washington as U.S. states. 
• 1945- Roger L. Schlaifer (born February 23, 1945) is born. He is responsible for his creative development and worldwide licensing of Cabbage Patch Kids(1983) and the name and works of Andy Warhol.  
• 1973 – Cold War: Following President Richard Nixon‘s visit to the People’s Republic of China, the two countries agree to establish liaison offices. 
• 1980-U.S. hockey team beats the Soviets in the “Miracle on Ice”.

  1986-Edwin S. Lowe (1910 – February 23, 1986) dies. He is creator of the game Yatzi (1956)

  2023–Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are not considering legal action after being mocked by South Park, U.S. royal commentator Kristen Meinzer told Newsweek, calling any such speculation “baseless and boring.” (Newsweek)

  2023-Three Trump-supporting brothers are preparing to roll out their “plan C” to reinstate him as president after the United States Supreme Court once again declined to hear their case.

Friday February 23, 2024

Saint Polycarp, Bishop and Martyr

Day 54: The Tribe of Levi — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 54: The Fall of Man — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube

Baptism in Jesus’ Name | Catholic Answers Podcasts

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

• 1455 – Traditionally the date of publication of the Gutenberg Bible, the first Western book printed with movable type.
• 1763 – Berbice slave uprising in Guyana: The first major slave revolt in South America.
• 820 – Cato Street Conspiracy: A plot to murder all the British cabinet ministers is exposed and the conspirators arrested.
• 1836 – Texas Revolution: The Siege of the Alamo (prelude to the Battle of the Alamo) begins in San Antonio, Texas.
• 1861 – President-elect Abraham Lincoln arrives secretly in Washington, D.C., after the thwarting of an alleged assassination plot in Baltimore, Maryland.
• 1870 – Reconstruction Era: Post-U.S. Civil War military control of Mississippi ends and it is readmitted to the Union.
• 1883 – Alabama becomes the first U.S. state to enact an anti-trust law.
• 1903 – Cuba leases Guantánamo Bay to the United States “in perpetuity”.
• 1905 – Chicago attorney Paul Harris and three other businessmen meet for lunch to form the Rotary Club, the world’s first service club.
• 1917 – First demonstrations in Saint Petersburg, Russia. The beginning of the February Revolution (March 8 in the Gregorian calendar).
• 1980 – Iran hostage crisis: Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini states that Iran’s parliament will decide the fate of the American embassy hostages.
• 2023-At least two have died, and six others have been injured following a coal mine collapse in Inner Mongolia, China. Search and rescue operations continue as more than 50 people remain trapped. (Newsweek)

 

Saturday February 24,  2024

Day 55: Obedience to God — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 55: The Fall of the Angels — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube

Jesus’ Sacrifice and Penance | Catholic Answers Podcasts

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

• 1582 – With the papal bull Inter gravissimas, Pope Gregory XIII announces the Gregorian calendar.
• 1854 – A Penny Red with perforations becomes the first perforated postage stamp to be officially issued for distribution.
• 1863 – Arizona is organized as a United States territory.
• 1868 – Andrew Johnson becomes the first President of the United States to be impeached by the United States House of Representatives. He is later acquitted in the Senate.
• 1920 – The Nazi Party (NSDAP) was founded by Adolf Hitler in the Hofbräuhaus beer hall in Munich, Germany
• 1949  The Bumper-WAC reached an altitude of 393 kilometres (244 mi), becoming the first human-made object to enter space, according to NASA, although V-2 Rocket MW 18014 crossed the Kármán line earlier, in 1944
• 1976 – The 1976 constitution of Cuba is formally proclaimed.
• 2008 – Fidel Castro retires as the President of Cuba and the Council of Ministers after 32 years. He remains as head of the Communist Party for another three years.
• 2022 – Days after recognising Donetsk and Luhansk as independent states, Russian president Vladimir Putin orders a full scale invasion of Ukraine.
• 2023-AI-generated fiction is flooding literary magazines — but not fooling anyone – The Verge

Sunday February 25, 2024

SECOND SUNDAY OF LENT

Day 56: Jealous Husbands — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 56: Man’s First Sin — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube

Can the Saints Hear Us? | Catholic Answers Podcasts

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

• 1828-John Quincy Adams’ son marries relative at the White House.
• 1870-First African American congressman sworn in.
• 1932 – Hitler, having been stateless for seven years, obtains German citizenship when he is appointed a Brunswick state official by Dietrich Klagges, a fellow Nazi. As a result, Hitler is able to run for Reichspräsident in the 1932 election.
• 1940 – The first ice hockey game is televised in the United States, the New York Rangers vs Montreal Canadiens, from Madison Square Garden on W2XBS-TV.
• 1956 – In his speech On the Cult of Personality and Its Consequences, Nikita Khrushchev, leader of the Soviet Union, denounces Stalin.
• 1964-Young Muhammad Ali knocks out Sonny Liston for first world title.
• 1986 – People Power Revolution: President of the Philippines Ferdinand Marcos flees the nation after 20 years of rule; Corazon Aquino becomes the Philippines‘ first female president.

  

  Epigonias@epigonias (February 25, 2023) Kirk Cameron has to break into the Smithsonian to steal a banana shaped Flintstones car with a Crocoduck skull on its hood.

Monday February 26,  2024

Saint of the Day

WinCalendar: Calendars, Holidays, Days and Today – EU

This Day in History – What Happened Today – HISTORY

Day 57: Hear, O Israel — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 57: Consequences of Adam’s Sin — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube

Supernatural Realms | Catholic Answers Podcasts

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

• 1775 – The British East India Company factory on Balambangan Island is destroyed by Moro pirates.
• 1870 – The Beach Pneumatic Transit in New York City, intending as a demonstration for a subway line opens.
• 1876 – Japan and Korea sign the Treaty of Kangwha, which grants Japanese citizens extraterritoriality rights in Korea, opens three Korean ports to Japanese trade, and ends Korea’s status as a tributary state of Qing dynasty China.
• 1914 – HMHS Britannic, sister to the RMS Titanic, is launched at Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast.
• 1919 – President Woodrow Wilson signs an act of Congress establishing the Grand Canyon National Park.
• 1929 – President Calvin Coolidge signs legislation establishing the 96,000 acres (390 km²) Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming.
• 1935 – Adolf Hitler orders the Luftwaffe to be re-formed, violating the provisions of the Treaty of Versailles.
• 1935 – Robert Watson-Watt carries out a demonstration near Daventry which leads directly to the development of radar in the United Kingdom.
• 1936 – In the February 26 Incident, young Japanese military officers attempt to stage a coup against the government.
• 1993 – World Trade Center bombing: In New York City, a truck bomb parked below the North Tower of the World Trade Center explodes, killing six and injuring over a thousand people.
• 2008 – The New York Philharmonic performs in Pyongyang, North Korea; this is the first event of its kind to take place in North Korea.
• 2012 – Seventeen-year-old African-American student Trayvon Martin is shot to death by neighborhood watch coordinator George Zimmerman in an altercation in Sanford, Florida.
• 2021 – A total of 279 female students aged between 10 and 17 are kidnapped by bandits in the Zamfara kidnapping in Zamfara State, Nigeria.
• 2023-Media drop Dilbert after creator’s Black ‘hate group’ remark | AP News
• After the Roald Dahl text editing controversy that erupted in recent days, it is now the turn of Ian Fleming’s James Bond novels to be rewritten.

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 Day 59: Obligations to God — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
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Here’s What Happen  Last Week and Year in Life.

• 1953 – James Watson and Francis Crick announce to friends that they have determined the chemical structure of DNA; the formal announcement takes place on April 25 following publication in April’s Nature (pub. April 2).
• 1958 – A school bus in Floyd County, Kentucky hits a wrecker truck and plunges down an embankment into the rain-swollen Levisa Fork river. The driver and 26 children die in what remains one of the worst school bus accidents in U.S. history.
• 1959 – Discoverer 1, an American spy satellite that is the first object intended to achieve a polar orbit, is launched but fails to achieve orbit.
• 1983 – The final episode of M*A*S*H airs, with almost 106 million viewers. It still holds the record for the highest viewership of a season finale.
• 2013 – Pope Benedict XVI resigns as the pope of the Catholic Church, becoming the first pope to do so since Pope Gregory XII, in 1415.
• 2023-Elon Musk is the richest person in the world again | CNN Business
• 2023-‘Jesus Revolution’ performs miracles at the box office, receives rave reviews from audience | Fox News