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As we enter the month of June, here is what is going to happen
and what has happened in the month of June.
Saturday June 1, 2024
Saint Justin, Martyr
Beginning of The Month of the Sacred Heart of Jesus
Catholic News Agency@cnalive (June 1, 2023) June is known as the month of the Sacred Heart of Jesus because the solemnity of the Sacred Heart is celebrated during this month. Here is some other reasons as to why June is dedicated to the Sacred Heart.
Besides The Sacred Heart of Jesus it is also Pride Month. I let this Tweeter explain in Catholic terms.
Aimee Murphy@RehumanizeAimee (May 30, 2023)
During this LGBTQ+ Pride Month & Month of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, this queer Catholic is here to remind all y’all that the pierced heart of Jesus beats, pours out, and burns passionately for all lesbian, gay, bi, trans, queer, intersex, & ace people everywhere.
(May 31, 2023) I should have expected that a lot of prejudiced bigots and homophobes would show up in my replies, but somehow I had hoped they wouldn’t.
Anyway,, being gay isn’t a sin!
Holy, self-sacrifial queer people exist!!
Stop making assumptions about ppls sex lives, y’all! It’s gross!!
Anyway, all Xians even wanting to comment on this thread should read the following books which I’ve found helpful in my walk & for my family: – Gay & Catholic – Tenderness (this & above by Eve Tushnet) – Heavy Burdens (by B.E. Rivera) – Guiding Families of LGBT Loved Ones
�� you are assuming
That all LGBTQ+ people
Are unrepentant sinners
That’s gross and prejudicial ��
But regardless of a soul’s state
Unrepentant Sinner, holiest Saint,
or somewhere in between,
Jesus’ Sacred Heart still beats
For all of us, queer kids included ��
Day 152: Being Forgotten — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 152: Lex Orandi, Lex Credendi — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
- 1495 – A monk, John Cor, records the first known batch of Scotch whisky.
- 1533 – Anne Boleyn is crowned Queen of England.
- 1773 – Wolraad Woltemade rescues 14 sailors at the Cape of Good Hope from the sinking ship De Jonge Thomas by riding his horse into the sea seven times. Both he and his horse, Vonk, drowned on his eighth attempt.
- 1779 – The court-martial for malfeasance of Benedict Arnold, a general in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, begins.
- 1792 – Kentucky is admitted as the 15th state of the United States.
- 2024–Jimmy Akin’s 31st anniversary as a professional apologist.
Sunday June 2, 2024
THE MOST HOLY BODY AND BLOOD OF CHRIST white
(Corpus Christi)
Saints Marcellinus and Peter, Martyrs
Day 153: The Decline of Solomon — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 153: Sacraments Save — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
- 1780 – The anti-Catholic Gordon Riots in London leave an estimated 300 to 700 people dead.
- 1835 – P. T. Barnum and his circus start their first tour of the United States.
- 1979 – Pope John Paul II starts his first official visit to his native Poland, becoming the first Pope to visit a Communist country.
- 2023-1440 Daily Digest@Join1440: In a Facebook post, Missouri police warned citizens not to wrestle bears they encounter near the edge of the Mark Twain National Forest.
Monday June 3, 2024
Saint Charles Lwanga and Companions, Martyrs
Day 154: The Baptism of Jesus — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 154: Sacraments of Eternal Life — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Here’s What Happen Last Week and Year in Life.
- 1844 – The last pair of great auks is killed.
- 1916 – The National Defense Act is signed into law, increasing the size of the United States National Guard by 450,000 men.
- 1943-Zoot Suit Riots begin in Los Angeles.
- 1800-President John Adams moves into a tavern in Washington, D.C.
- 1956-Rock ‘n’ roll is banned in Santa Cruz, California.
- 1989 – The government of China sends troops to force protesters out of Tiananmen Square after seven weeks of occupation.
- 2023-1440 Daily Digest@Join1440-Aurora Sky Castner, who was born in jail, just graduated third in her high school class with plans to attend Harvard University. Castner plans on studying law when she attends the university this fall.
Tuesday June 4, 2024
Day 155: Jesus is Lord — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 155: Who Celebrates the Liturgy — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Here’s What Happen Last Week and Year in Life.
- 1561 – The steeple of St Paul’s, the medieval cathedral of London, is destroyed in a fire caused by lightning and is never rebuilt.
- 1896 – Henry Ford completes the Ford Quadricycle, his first gasoline-powered automobile, and gives it a successful test run.
- 1912 – Massachusetts becomes the first state of the United States to set a minimum wage.
- 1913 – Emily Davison, a suffragist, runs out in front of King George V‘s horse at The Derby. She is trampled, never regains consciousness, and dies four days later.
- 1917 – The first Pulitzer Prizes are awarded: Laura E. Richards, Maude H. Elliott, and Florence Hall receive the first Pulitzer for biography (for Julia Ward Howe). Jean Jules Jusserand receives the first Pulitzer for history for his work With Americans of Past and Present Days. Herbert B. Swope receives the first Pulitzer for journalism for his work for the New York World.
- 1928 – The President of the Republic of China, Zhang Zuolin, is assassinated by Japanese agents.
- 1989 – The Tiananmen Square protests are suppressed in Beijing by the People’s Liberation Army, with between 241 and 10,000 dead (an unofficial estimate).
- 2023-SW Prayer@SwPrayer (June 3, 2023) Let us offer one Hail Mary for the victims of train accident in Odisha. Please comment Amen as a response.
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ednesday June 5, 2024
Saint Boniface, Bishop and Martyr
Day 156: Jesus Casts Out Demons — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 156: How the Liturgy Is Celebrated — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTubeHere’s What Happen Last Week and Year in Life.
- 1829 – HMS Pickle captures the armed slave ship Voladora off the coast of Cuba.
- 1837 – Houston is incorporated by the Republic of Texas.
- 1849 – Denmark becomes a constitutional monarchy by the signing of a new constitution.
- 1851 – Harriet Beecher Stowe‘s anti-slavery serial, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, or Life Among the Lowly, starts a ten-month run in the National Era abolitionist newspaper
- 1893 – The trial of Lizzie Borden for the murder of her father and step-mother begins in New Bedford, Massachusetts.
- 1968–Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy: Robert F. Kennedy who was a leading 1968 Democratic presidential candidate is shot at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. Sirhan Sirhan is arrested.
- 1981 – The Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that five people in Los Angeles, California, have a rare form of pneumonia seen only in patients with weakened immune systems, in what turns out to be the first recognized cases of AIDS.
Thursday June 6, 2024
Saint Norbert, Bishop
Day 157: Following Jesus — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 157: God’s Word and Sacred Music — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTubeHere’s What Happen Last Week and Year in Life.
- 1654 – Swedish Queen Christina abdicated her throne in favour of her cousin Charles Gustav and converted to Catholicism.
- 1844 – The Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA) is founded in London.
- 1892 – The Chicago “L” elevated rail system begins operation.
- 1912 – The eruption of Novarupta in Alaska begins. It is the largest volcanic eruption of the 20th century.
- 1944- D-DAY – Commencement of Operation Overlord, the Allied invasion of Normandy, with the execution of Operation Neptune—commonly referred to as D-Day—the largest seaborne invasion in history. Nearly 160,000 Allied troops cross the English Channel with about 5,000 landing and assault craft, 289 escort vessels, and 277 minesweepers participating. By the end of the day, the Allies have landed on five invasion beaches and are pushing inland.
- 1966 – March Against Fear: African-American civil rights activist James Meredith is wounded in an ambush by white sniper James Aubrey Norvell.[30] Meredith and Norvell are photographed by Jack R. Thornell, whose photo will receive the 1967 Pulitzer Prize in Photography, the last one to be awarded in the category.
- 2023 – Undermining the Kakhovskaya HPP during the Russian-Ukrainian war.
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Quote of the Day
Steven D. Greydanus@DecentFilms (June 6, 2023) The first law of decency, if you get nothing else right: When people are hurting, when they’re suffering loss or grief, at the very least give them space. Respect other people’s pain. Kick someone when they’re down, weaponize their pain, and I have no use for your moral ideas. (Yes, this was inspired by cruel comments weaponizing the pain of someone the attackers see as an enemy. They think he gets Christianity wrong, so from their point of view he might as well not even be human. Which is, you know. Quintessentially getting Christianity wrong.) And yes, I have posted this before, or very nearly. It’s not a new problem, and it bears repeating.
Friday June 7 , 2024
THE MOST SACRED HEART OF JESUS
Day 158: The Reality of Sin — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 158: Holy Images in the Liturgy — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTubeHere’s What Happen Last Week and Year in Life.
- 879 – Pope John VIII recognizes the Duchy of Croatia under Duke Branimir as an independent state.
- 1099 – First Crusade: The Siege of Jerusalem begins.
- 1906 – Cunard Line‘s RMS Lusitania is launched from the John Brown Shipyard, Glasgow (Clydebank), Scotland.
- 1955 – Lux Radio Theatre signs off the air permanently. The show launched in New York in 1934, and featured radio adaptations of Broadway shows and popular films.
- 1971 – The Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms Division of the U.S. Internal Revenue Service raids the home of Ken Ballew for illegal possession of hand grenades.
- 2023-1440 Daily Digest@Join1440-An Oklahoma school board voted to approve the first publicly funded religious school in the country. Here’s what we know.
- 2023–Pope Francis returns to hospital for surgery | ROME REPORTS
- 2023-WWF wrestler The Iron Sheik dies. (March 15, 1942 – June 7, 2023)
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Quote of the Day
Catholic Daily Reflections@CathDailyRef (June 7, 2023) Reflection 159: Mercy at the Hour of Your Death – Daily Reflections on Divine Mercy
Days with Saint Faustina -Every time we pray the “Hail Mary” prayer, we pray for the sacred hour of our death.
Saturday June 8, 2024
The Immaculate Heart of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Day 159: Bearing Fruit — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 159: When the Liturgy Is Celebrated — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTubeHere’s What Happen Last Week and Year in Life.
- 452 – Attila leads a Hun army in the invasion of Italy, devastating the northern provinces as he heads for Rome.
- 793 – Vikings raid the abbey at Lindisfarne in Northumbria, commonly accepted as the beginning of Norse activity in the British Isles.
- 1789 – James Madison introduces twelve proposed amendments to the United States Constitution in Congress.
- 1794 – Maximilien Robespierre inaugurates the French Revolution‘s new state religion, the Cult of the Supreme Being, with large organized festivals all across France.
- 1906 – Theodore Roosevelt signs the Antiquities Act into law, authorizing the President to restrict the use of certain parcels of public land with historical or conservation value.
- 1912 – Carl Laemmle incorporates Universal Pictures.
- 1949 – George Orwell‘s Nineteen Eighty-Four is published.
- 1968 – James Earl Ray, the man who assassinated Martin Luther King Jr. is arrested at London Heathrow Airport.[9]
- 1972 – Vietnam War: Nine-year-old Phan Thị Kim Phúc is burned by napalm, an event captured by Associated Press photographer Nick Ut moments later while the young girl is seen running naked down a road, in what would become an iconic, Pulitzer Prize-winning photo.
- 2023 – Former US President Donald Trump is indicted on federal charges of misusing classified information.
- 2023- Founder of the 700 Club Pat Robertson dies. (March 22, 1930 – June 8, 2023)
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Dr Taylor Marshall™️@TaylorRMarshall (June 8, 2023) As a Catholic, I do NOT believe in space ALIENS but I do believe in DRAGONS.
Sunday June 9, 2024
TENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME
Saint Ephrem, Deacon and Doctor of the Church
Day 160: Jesus Warns the People — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 160: The Liturgical Year — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTubeHere’s What Happen Last Week and Year in Life.
- 1523 – The Parisian Faculty of Theology fines Simon de Colines for publishing the Biblical commentary Commentarii initiatorii in quatuor Evangelia by Jacques Lefèvre d’Étaples.
- 1534 – Jacques Cartier is the first European to describe and map the Saint Lawrence River.
- 1856 – Five hundred Mormons leave Iowa City, Iowa for the Mormon Trail.
- 1930 – A Chicago Tribune reporter, Jake Lingle, is killed during rush hour at the Illinois Central train station by Leo Vincent Brothers, allegedly over a $100,000 gambling debt owed to Al Capone.
- 1968 – U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson declares a national day of mourning following the assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy.
- 1978 – The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints opens its priesthood to “all worthy men”, ending a 148-year-old policy of excluding black men.
Monday June 10, 2024
Day 161: The Crucifixion of Christ — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 161: The Liturgy of the Hours — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTubeHere’s What Happen Last Week and Year in Life.
- 1539 – Council of Trent: Pope Paul III sends out letters to his bishops, delaying the Council due to war and the difficulty bishops had traveling to Venice.
- 1692 – Salem witch trials: Bridget Bishop is hanged at Gallows Hill near Salem, Massachusetts, for “certaine Detestable Arts called Witchcraft and Sorceries”.
- 2001 – Pope John Paul II canonizes Lebanon‘s first female saint, Saint Rafqa.
- 2009 – Eighty-eight year-old James Wenneker von Brunn opens fire inside the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and fatally shoots Museum Special Police Officer Stephen Tyrone Johns. Other security guards returned fire, wounding von Brunn, who was apprehended.
- 2023-Theodore John Kaczynski also known as the Unabomber dies. (May 22, 1942 – June 10, 2023)
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Because I live in RI, I must include this quote.
Dan of The Hour@ZJoyfulCatholic (June 11, 2023) Fun fact about Rhode Islanders. Half of our personality is talking about the fact that we live in Rhode Island and/or telling people the random quirks about this state.
Tuesday June 11, 2024
Saint Barnabas, Apostle
Day 162: Rehobo′am Seeks Counsel — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 162: Where the Liturgy Is Celebrated — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTubeHere’s What Happen Last Week and Year in Life.
- 1509 – Henry VIII of England marries Catherine of Aragon.
- 1775 – The American Revolutionary War‘s first naval engagement, the Battle of Machias, results in the capture of a small British naval vessel.
- 1837 – The Broad Street Riot occurs in Boston, fueled by ethnic tensions between Yankees and Irish.
- 1895 – Paris–Bordeaux–Paris, sometimes called the first automobile race in history or the “first motor race”, takes place.
- 1962 – Frank Morris, John Anglin and Clarence Anglin allegedly become the only prisoners to escape from the prison on Alcatraz Island.
- 1963 – John F. Kennedy addresses Americans from the Oval Office proposing the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which would revolutionize American society by guaranteeing equal access to public facilities, ending segregation in education, and guaranteeing federal protection for voting rights.
- 2023-Rich Raho@RichRaho (June 11, 2023) VATICAN: Pope Francis’ recovery continues; today he watched a televised Mass, then received Communion, he then went to the private chapel of the papal apartments at Gemelli to recite the Angelus; afterwards he had lunch with doctors, nurses, and members of the Gendarmerie Corps.
- 2023-National Geographic@NatGeo (June 11, 2023) As Prohibition agents destroyed barrels of booze and bootleggers went underground, the United States turned to another substance: ice cream
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Wednesday June 12, 2024
Day 163: Faith Over Success — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 163: Summary of the Liturgy — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTubeHere’s What Happen Last Week and Year in Life.
- 1817 – The earliest form of bicycle, the dandy horse, is driven by Karl von Drais.
- 1939 – Shooting begins on Paramount Pictures‘ Dr. Cyclops, the first horror film photographed in three-strip Technicolor.
- 1939 – The Baseball Hall of Fame opens in Cooperstown, New York.
- 1942 – Anne Frank receives a diary for her thirteenth birthday.
- 1954 – Pope Pius XII canonises Dominic Savio, who was 14 years old at the time of his death, as a saint, making him at the time the youngest unmartyred saint in the Roman Catholic Church. In 2017, Francisco and Jacinta Marto, aged ten and nine at the time of their deaths, are declared saints.
- 1963 – The film Cleopatra, starring Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, is released in US theaters. It was the most expensive film made at the time.
- 1967 – The United States Supreme Court in Loving v. Virginia declares all U.S. state laws which prohibit interracial marriage to be unconstitutional.
- 1997 – Queen Elizabeth II reopens the Globe Theatre in London.
- 2018 – United States President Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un of North Korea held the first meeting between leaders of their two countries in Singapore.
- 2023-Priest killed in a road ambush in southern Nigeria – Pierced Hearts (pierced-hearts.com)
- 2023-U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops@USCCB (June 12, 2023) Catholics Invited to Pray an Act of Reparation on Solemnity of the Sacred Heart. Read the full press release at: USCCB
Thursday June 13, 2024
Saint Anthony of Padua, Priest and Doctor of the Church
Day 164: Tearing Down Idols — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 164: Liturgical Diversity and Unity — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTubeHere’s What Happen Last Week and Year in Life.
- 1525 – Martin Luther marries Katharina von Bora, against the celibacy rule decreed by the Roman Catholic Church for priests and nuns.
- 1774 – Rhode Island becomes the first of Britain’s North American colonies to ban the importation of slaves.
- 1927 – Aviator Charles Lindbergh receives a ticker tape parade up 5th Avenue in New York City.
- 1977 – Convicted Martin Luther King Jr. assassin James Earl Ray is recaptured after escaping from prison three days before.
- 2005 – The jury acquits pop singer Michael Jackson of his charges for allegedly sexually molesting a child in 1993
- 2023-Volunteer firefighters are getting older. It could be a life-or-death issue : NPR
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Friday June 14, 2024
Day 165: The Lover and the Beloved — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 165: Summary of Liturgical Diversity — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTubeHere’s What Happen Last Week and Year in Life.
- 1900 – Hawaii becomes a United States territory.
- 1937 – Pennsylvania becomes the first (and only) state of the United States to celebrate Flag Day officially as a state holiday.
- 1954 – U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs a bill into law that places the words “under God” into the United States Pledge of Allegiance.
- 1959 – Disneyland Monorail System, the first daily operating monorail system in the Western Hemisphere, opens to the public in Anaheim, California.
- 1966 – The Vatican announces the abolition of the Index Librorum Prohibitorum (“index of prohibited books”), which was originally instituted in 1557.
Saturday June 15, 2024
Day 166: Responding in Faith — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 166: Introduction to Baptism — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTubeHere’s What Happen Last Week and Year in Life.
- 1502 – Christopher Columbus lands on the island of Martinique on his fourth voyage.
- 1520 – Pope Leo X threatens to excommunicate Martin Luther in Exsurge Domine.
- 1667 – The first human blood transfusion is administered by Dr. Jean-Baptiste Denys.
- 1752 – Benjamin Franklin proves that lightning is electricity (traditional date, the exact date is unknown).
- 1836 – Arkansas is admitted as the 25th U.S. state.
- 1878 – Eadweard Muybridge takes a series of photographs to prove that all four feet of a horse leave the ground when it runs; the study becomes the basis of motion pictures.
- 2007 – The Nokkakivi Amusement Park is opened in Lievestuore, Laukaa, Finland.
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Sunday June 16, 2024
ELEVENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME
My Father
Day 167: Viaticum — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 167: The Baptism of Christ — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTubeDid You Know!!!
Life Beyond Foundation@Lifebeyondfund (June 18, 2023) Happy Father’s Day!!! Despite widespread support, Father’s Day did not become a permanent national holiday for many years. It wasn’t until 1972 that President Richard Nixon signed a law declaring that Father’s Day be celebrated annually on the third Sunday in June.So Happy 51st Official Father’s DayDuring the 1920s and 1930s, a movement arose to scrap Mother’s Day and Father’s Day altogether in favor of a single holiday, Parents’ Day. Every year on Mother’s Day, pro-Parents’ Day groups rallied in New York City’s Central Park–a public reminder, said Parents’ Day activist and radio performer Robert Spere, “that both parents should be loved and respected together.”
Paradoxically, however, the Great Depression derailed this effort to combine and de-commercialize the holidays. Struggling retailers and advertisers redoubled their efforts to make Father’s Day a “second Christmas” for men, promoting goods such as neckties, hats, socks, pipes and tobacco, golf clubs and other sporting goods, and greeting cards.Father’s Day – Date, Definition & History
Here’s What Happen Last Week and Year in Life.
- 1586 – Mary, Queen of Scots, recognizes Philip II of Spain as her heir and successor.
- 1824 – A meeting at Old Slaughter’s coffee house in London leads to the formation of what is now the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA).
- 1846 – The Papal conclave of 1846 elects Pope Pius IX, beginning the longest reign in the history of the papacy.
- 1858 – Abraham Lincoln delivers his House Divided speech in Springfield, Illinois.
- 1884 – The first purpose-built roller coaster, LaMarcus Adna Thompson‘s “Switchback Railway“, opens in New York’s Coney Island amusement park.
- 1897 – A treaty annexing the Republic of Hawaii to the United States is signed; the Republic would not be dissolved until a year later.
- 1903 – The Ford Motor Company is incorporated.
- 1981 – US President Ronald Reagan awards the Congressional Gold Medal to Ken Taylor, Canada’s former ambassador to Iran, for helping six Americans escape from Iran during the hostage crisis of 1979–81; he is the first foreign citizen bestowed the honor.
- 2002 – Padre Pio is canonized by the Roman Catholic Church.
- 2010 – Bhutan becomes the first country to institute a total ban on tobacco.
- 2015 – American businessman Donald Trump announces his campaign to run for President of the United States in the upcoming election.[15]
- 2016 – Shanghai Disneyland Park, the first Disney Park in Mainland China, opens to the public.[16]
- 2019 – Upwards of 2,000,000 people participate in the 2019–20 Hong Kong protests, the largest in Hong Kong’s history.
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Monday June 17, 2024
Day 168: Wicked Kings — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 168: The Celebration of Baptism — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTubeHere’s What Happen Last Week and Year in Life.
- 1579 – Sir Francis Drake claims a land he calls Nova Albion (modern California) for England.
- 1885 – The Statue of Liberty arrives in New York Harbor.
- 1944 – Iceland declares independence from Denmark and becomes a republic.
- 1971 – U.S. President Richard Nixon in a televised press conference called drug abuse “America’s public enemy number one”, starting the War on drugs.
- 1972 – Watergate scandal: Five White House operatives are arrested for burgling the offices of the Democratic National Committee during an attempt by members of the administration of President Richard M. Nixon to illegally wiretap the political opposition as part of a broader campaign to subvert the democratic process.
- 2021 – Juneteenth National Independence Day, was signed into law by President Joe Biden, to become the first federal holiday established since Martin Luther King Jr. Day in 1983.
- 2023-1440 Daily Digest@Join1440-28-year-old Martha Jesenia Gutierrez-Serrano posed as a 17-year-old high school student for a year. Gutierrez-Serrano is being charged with falsifying public records. If found guilty, the 28-year-old faces up to five years in prison or a $5,000 fine. 1440 Daily Digest on Twitter:
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Tuesday June 18, 2024
Day 169: Joash Is Crowned — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 169: The Mystagogy of Baptism — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTubeHere’s What Happen Last Week and Year in Life.
- 1178 – Five Canterbury monks see an event believed to have been the formation of the Giordano Bruno crater on the moon. It is believed that the current oscillations of the Moon‘s distance from the Earth (on the order of meters) are a result of this collision.
- 1858 – Charles Darwin receives a paper from Alfred Russel Wallace that includes nearly identical conclusions about evolution as Darwin’s own, prompting Darwin to publish his theory.
- 1873 – Susan B. Anthony is fined $100 for attempting to vote in the 1872 presidential election.
- 1940 – The “Finest Hour” speech is delivered by Winston Churchill.
- 1983 – Mona Mahmudnizhad, together with nine other women of the Baháʼí Faith, is sentenced to death and hanged in Shiraz, Iran over her religious beliefs.
- 2023-Where Peter Is@Where_Peter_is -Fr Alex Roche writes, “Hymns written in the 1970s often get a bad rap and are criticized in some circles as theologically empty. However, that critique is difficult to level in this case.” On eagles’ wings – Where Peter Is
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Wednesday June 19, 2024
[Saint Romuald, Abbot]
Day 170: Joash’s Downfall — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 170: Who Can Be Baptized? — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTubeHere’s What Happen Last Week and Year in Life.
- 1586 – English colonists leave Roanoke Island, after failing to establish England’s first permanent settlement in North America.
- 1846 – The first officially recorded, organized baseball game is played under Alexander Cartwright‘s rules on Hoboken, New Jersey‘s Elysian Fields with the New York Base Ball Club defeating the Knickerbockers 23–1. Cartwright umpired.
- 1862 – Congress prohibits slavery in all current and future United States territories, and President Lincoln quickly signs the legislation.
- 1865 – Over two years after the Emancipation Proclamation, slaves in Galveston, Texas, United States, are officially informed of their freedom. The anniversary was officially celebrated in Texas and other states as Juneteenth. On June 17, 2021, Juneteenth officially became a federal holiday in the United States.
- 1910 – The first Father’s Day is celebrated in Spokane, Washington.
- 1978 – Garfield‘s first comic strip, originally published locally as Jon in 1976, goes into nationwide syndication.
- 1988 – Pope John Paul II canonizes 117 Vietnamese Martyrs.
- 2018 – The 10,000,000th United States Patent is issued.
- 2023-Pope Francis publishes apostolic letter on Blaise Pascal
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Thursday June 20, 2024
Day 171: Elijah and Elisha — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 171: The Necessity of Baptism — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTubeHere’s What Happen Last Week and Year in Life.
- 1877 – Alexander Graham Bell installs the world’s first commercial telephone service in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
- 1893 – Lizzie Borden is acquitted of the murders of her father and stepmother.
- 1972 – Watergate scandal: An 18+1⁄2-minute gap appears in the tape recording of the conversations between U.S. President Richard Nixon and his advisers regarding the recent arrests of his operatives while breaking into the Watergate complex.
- 1975 – The film Jaws is released in the United States, becoming the highest-grossing film of that time and starting the trend of films known as “summer blockbusters“.
Friday June 21, 2024
Saint Aloysius Gonzaga, Religious
Day 172: Uzziah’s Pride — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 172: What Does Baptism Do? — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTubeHere’s What Happen Last Week and Year in Life.
- 1898 – The United States captures Guam from Spain. The few warning shots fired by the U.S. naval vessels are misinterpreted as salutes by the Spanish garrison, which was unaware that the two nations were at war.
- 1915 – The U.S. Supreme Court hands down its decision in Guinn v. United States 238 US 347 1915, striking down Oklahoma grandfather clause legislation which had the effect of denying the right to vote to blacks.
- 1978 – The original production of Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber‘s musical, Evita, based on the life of Eva Perón, opens at the Prince Edward Theatre, London.
- 2006 – Pluto‘s newly discovered moons are officially named Nix and Hydra.
Saturday June 22, 2024
[Saint Paulinus of Nola, Bishop; Saints John Fisher, Bishop,
and Thomas More, MartyrsDay 173: Confidence in God — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 173: Brothers and Sisters in Baptism — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTubeHere’s What Happen Last Week and Year in Life.
- 1633 – The Holy Office in Rome forces Galileo Galilei to recant his view that the Sun, not the Earth, is the center of the Universe in the form he presented it in, after heated controversy.
- 1839 – Cherokee leaders Major Ridge, John Ridge, and Elias Boudinot are assassinated for signing the Treaty of New Echota, which had resulted in the Trail of Tears.
- 1978 – Charon, the first of Pluto’s satellites to be discovered, was first seen at the United States Naval Observatory by James W. Christy.
- 2023–Mother Mary Lange, founder of first African American religious congregation, declared venerable | Catholic News Agency
- 2023–Pope Francis advances the sainthood cause of Fatima’s Sister Lucia
America Magazine@americamag (June 22, 2023) Pope Francis declared Mother Mary Lange venerable, advancing her cause for canonization. She founded the Oblate Sisters of Providence, the first African-American religious congregation. Watch America’s full look at the Oblate Sisters of Providence here:
Sunday June 23, 2024
TWELFTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME
Day 174: The Prophet Hosea — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 174: Summary of the Sacrament of Baptism — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTubeHere’s What Happen Last Week and Year in Life.
- 1611 – The mutinous crew of Henry Hudson‘s fourth voyage sets Henry, his son and seven loyal crew members adrift in an open boat in what is now Hudson Bay; they are never heard from again.
- 1683 – William Penn signs a friendship treaty with Lenni Lenape Indians in Pennsylvania.
- 1887 – The Rocky Mountains Park Act becomes law in Canada creating the nation’s first national park, Banff National Park.
- 1926 – The College Board administers the first SAT exam.
- 1991 – Sonic the Hedgehog is released in North America on the Sega Genesis platform, beginning the popular video game franchise.
- 2018 – Twelve boys and an assistant coach from a soccer team in Thailand are trapped in a flooding cave, leading to an 18-day rescue operation.
Monday June 24, 2024
THE NATIVITY OF SAINT JOHN THE BAPTIST
Day 175: Knowledge of God — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 175: Introduction to Confirmation — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTubeHere’s What Happen Last Week and Year in Life.
- 1916 – Mary Pickford becomes the first female film star to sign a million-dollar contract.
- 1918 – First airmail service in Canada from Montreal to Toronto.
- 1949 – The first television western, Hopalong Cassidy, starring William Boyd, is aired on NBC.
- 1957 – In Roth v. United States, the U.S. Supreme Court rules that obscenity is not protected by the First Amendment.
- 2012 – Death of Lonesome George, the last known individual of Chelonoidis nigra abingdonii, a subspecies of the Galápagos tortoise.
- 2022 – In Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the U.S. Supreme Court rules that the U.S. Constitution does not assign the authority to regulate abortions to the federal government, thereby returning such authority to the individual states. This overturns the prior decisions in Roe v. Wade (1973) and Planned Parenthood v. Casey (1992).
- 2023 – The Wagner Group lead by Yevgeny Prigozhin launches an insurrection against the Russian government.
- 2023-What we know about doomed Titanic sub: ‘Catastrophic implosion’ and five people dead | The Independent
Quote of the Day
Jolz@Jolz_Aust (June 24, 2023) I went to Reconciliation today. The priest told me ‘the fact that you’re struggling with your faith means that it’s alive and it’s moving.’ His words brought me some comfort. God bless him.
Tuesday June 25, 2024
Day 176: Choosing Eternal Life — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 176: Traditions and Signs of Confirmation — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTubeHere’s What Happen Last Week and Year in Life.
- 1788 – Virginia becomes the tenth state to ratify the United States Constitution.
- 1876 – Battle of the Little Bighorn and the death of Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer.
- 1900 – The Taoist monk Wang Yuanlu discovers the Dunhuang manuscripts, a cache of ancient texts that are of great historical and religious significance, in the Mogao Caves of Dunhuang, China
- 1910 – The United States Congress passes the Mann Act, which prohibits interstate transport of women or girls for “immoral purposes”; the ambiguous language would be used to selectively prosecute people for years to come.
- 1910 – Igor Stravinsky‘s ballet The Firebird is premiered in Paris, bringing him to prominence as a composer.
- 1944 – The final page of the comic Krazy Kat is published, exactly two months after its author George Herriman died.
- 1947 – The Diary of a Young Girl (better known as The Diary of Anne Frank) is published.
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Wednesday June 26, 2024
Day 177: Return, O Israel — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 177: The Celebration of Confirmation — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTubeHere’s What Happen Last Week and Year in Life.
- 684 – Pope Benedict II is the last pope to require confirmation by the Byzantine emperor before taking office.
- 1409 – Western Schism: The Roman Catholic Church is led into a double schism as Petros Philargos is crowned Pope Alexander V after the Council of Pisa, joining Pope Gregory XII in Rome and Pope Benedict XIII in Avignon.
- 1909 – The Science Museum in London comes into existence as an independent entity.
- 1927 – The Cyclone roller coaster opens on Coney Island.
- 1936 – Initial flight of the Focke-Wulf Fw 61, the first practical helicopter.
- 1948 – Shirley Jackson‘s short story The Lottery is published in The New Yorker magazine.
- 1967 – Karol Wojtyła (later John Paul II) made a cardinal by Pope Paul VI.
- 1977 – Elvis Presley held his final concert in Indianapolis, Indiana at Market Square Arena.
- 1997 – J. K. Rowling publishes the first of her Harry Potter novel series, Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone in United Kingdom.
- 2007 – Pope Benedict XVI reinstates the traditional laws of papal election in which a successful candidate must receive two-thirds of the votes.
- 2015 – The U.S. Supreme Court ruled, 5–4, that same-sex couples have a constitutional right to marriage under the 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution.
- 2023-San Antonio airport worker sucked into a Delta jet’s engine died by suicide : NPR May God have mercy on his soul and console his family.
Thursday June 27, 2024
Saint Cyril of Alexandria, Bishop and Doctor of the Church
Day 178: Called Back — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 178: Who Receives Confirmation — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTubeHere’s What Happen Last Week and Year in Life.
- 1844 – Joseph Smith, founder of the Latter Day Saint movement, and his brother Hyrum Smith, are killed by a mob at the Carthage, Illinois jail.
- 1895 – The inaugural run of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad‘s Royal Blue from Washington, D.C., to New York City, the first U.S. passenger train to use electric locomotives.
- 1898 – The first solo circumnavigation of the globe is completed by Joshua Slocum from Briar Island, Nova Scotia.
- 1922–First Newbery Medal for children’s literature awarded to Hendrik Willem van Loon.
- 1950 – The United States decides to send troops to fight in the Korean War.
- 1974 – U.S. president Richard Nixon visits the Soviet Union.
- 2023-Ryan Seacrest will be new ‘Wheel of Fortune’ host after Pat Sajak : NPR
Friday June 28, 2024
Saint Irenaeus, Bishop and Martyr
Day 179: Blinded by Comfort — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 179: Summary of Confirmation — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTubeHere’s What Happen Last Week and Year in Life.
- 1894 – Labor Day becomes an official US holiday.
- 1902 – The U.S. Congress passes the Spooner Act, authorizing President Theodore Roosevelt to acquire rights from Colombia for the Panama Canal.
- 1914 – Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife Sophie are assassinated in Sarajevo; this is the casus belli of World War I.
- 1969 – Stonewall riots begin in New York City, marking the start of the Gay Rights Movement.
- 2007-Bald Eagle removed from list of threatened species.
- 2023-New TV shows and movies are delayed or canceled as writers strike stretches on : NPR
Saturday June 29, 2024
SAINTS PETER AND PAUL, APOSTLES
Day 180: Giving Time to God — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 180: The Source and Summit — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTubeHere’s What Happen Last Week and Year in Life.
- 1457 – The Dutch city of Dordrecht is devastated by fire.
- 1534 – Jacques Cartier is the first European to reach Prince Edward Island.
- 1613 – The Globe Theatre in London, built by William Shakespeare‘s playing company, the Lord Chamberlain’s Men, burns to the ground.
- 1620 – English crown bans tobacco growing in England, giving the Virginia Company a monopoly in exchange for tax of one shilling per pound.
- 1786 – Alexander Macdonell and over five hundred Roman Catholic highlanders leave Scotland to settle in Glengarry County, Ontario.
- 1889 – Hyde Park and several other Illinois townships vote to be annexed by Chicago, forming the largest United States city in area and second largest in population at the time.
- 1972 – The United States Supreme Court rules in the case Furman v. Georgia that arbitrary and inconsistent imposition of the death penalty violates the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments and constitutes cruel and unusual punishment.
- 1987 – Vincent van Gogh‘s painting, the Le Pont de Trinquetaille, is bought for $20.4 million at an auction in London, England.
- 2023-Google says it will start blocking Canadian news stories in response to new law : NPR
Rick Rice@BoldlyCatholic (June 29, 2023) On this Solemnity of Saints Peter and Paul, I heard something today I’d not heard before… if Peter is the Rock (representing the Institution), Paul is the Roll (representing the Mission). Rock and Roll baby!!Meg Wise@_nomadic_soul (June 29, 2023) I just don’t understand people who want our country to be Christian but don’t want our country to do Christian things.
Sunday June 30, 2024
THIRTEENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME
The First Martyrs of the Holy Roman Church
Day 181: Jonah and the Whale — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 181: The Sacrament of the Eucharist — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTubeHere’s What Happen Last Week and Year in Life.
- 296 – Pope Marcellinus begins his papacy.
- 1859 – French acrobat Charles Blondin crosses Niagara Falls on a tightrope.
- 1860 – The 1860 Oxford evolution debate at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History takes place.
- 1864 – U.S. President Abraham Lincoln grants Yosemite Valley to California for “public use, resort and recreation”.
- 1882 – Charles J. Guiteau is hanged in Washington, D.C. for the assassination of U.S. President James Garfield.
- 1886 – The first transcontinental train trip across Canada departs from Montreal, Quebec. It arrives in Port Moody, British Columbia on July 4.
- 1905 – Albert Einstein sends the article On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies, in which he introduces special relativity, for publication in Annalen der Physik.
- 1966 – The National Organization for Women, the United States’ largest feminist organization, is founded.
- 1968 – Pope Paul VI issues the Credo of the People of God.[
- 1985 – Thirty-nine American hostages from the hijacked TWA Flight 847 are freed in Beirut after being held for 17 days.
- 2019 – Donald Trump becomes the first sitting US President to visit the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea).
- 2023-France is roiled by protests after police killed a teenager named Nahel : NPR
- 2023-Supreme Court to consider whether domestic abusers can own guns : NPR
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