This Month In Life September 2024

Here is what is going on this month in life in the 9th month of September in the year 2024.

Sunday September 1, 2024

TWENTY-SECOND SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME

Day 244: Susanna’s Righteousness — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) (youtube.com
Day 244: The Virtue of Charity — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube

1532 – Lady Anne Boleyn is made Marquess of Pembroke by her fiancé, King Henry VIII of England.
1772 – The Mission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa is founded in San Luis Obispo, California.
1939 – J. Robert Oppenheimer and his student Hartland Snyder publish the Oppenheimer–Snyder model, proving for the first time in contemporary physics how black holes could develop.

Monday September 2, 2024

Labor Day

Day 245: The Faithfulness of Daniel — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) (youtube.com)
Day 245: Gifts and Fruits of the Holy Spirit — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube

1561 – Entry of Mary, Queen of Scots into Edinburgh, a spectacular civic celebration for the Queen of Scotland, marred by religious controversy.
1752 – Great Britain, along with its overseas possessions, adopts the Gregorian calendar.
1789 – The United States Department of the Treasury is founded.
1901 – Vice President of the United States Theodore Roosevelt utters the famous phrase, “Speak softly and carry a big stick” at the Minnesota State Fair.
1963 – CBS Evening News becomes U.S. network television’s first half-hour weeknight news broadcast, when the show is lengthened from 15 to 30 minutes.
2008 – Google launches its Google Chrome web browser.

Tuesday September 3, 2024

Saint Gregory the Great, pope and doctor of the Church – Memorial

Day 246: Rejoice in Doing Good — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) (youtube.com)
Day 246: Mercy and the Mystery of Sin — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube

1783 – American Revolutionary War: The war ends with the signing of the Treaty of Paris by the United States and the Kingdom of Great Britain.
1855 – American Indian Wars: In Nebraska, 700 soldiers under United States General William S. Harney avenge the Grattan massacre by attacking a Sioux village and killing 100 men, women and children.
1875 – The first official game of polo is played in Argentina after being introduced by British ranchers.
2016 – The U.S. and China, together responsible for 40% of the world’s carbon emissions, both formally ratify the Paris global climate agreement.
2017 – North Korea conducts its sixth and most powerful nuclear test.

Wednesday September 4, 2024

Day 247: True Repentance — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 247: The Weight of Sin — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube

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

1888 – George Eastman registers the trademark Kodak and receives a patent for his camera that uses roll film.
1957 – American Civil Rights Movement: Little Rock Crisis: The governor of Arkansas calls out the National Guard to prevent African American students from enrolling in Little Rock Central High School, resulting in the lawsuit Cooper v. Aaron the following year.
1972 – The Price Is Right premieres on CBS. It currently is the longest running game show on American television.
1998 – Google is founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, two students at Stanford University.
2001 – Tokyo DisneySea opens to the public as part of the Tokyo Disney Resort in Urayasu, Chiba, Japan.
2020 – Pope Benedict XVI becomes the longest-lived pope, 93 years, four months, 16 days, surpassing Pope Leo XIII, who died in 1903.
2023-Steve Harwell, the former lead singer of Smash Mouth, has died at 56 The singer of such hits as “Walking on the Sun” and “All Star” died of acute liver failure in his home in Boise, Idaho.

Thursday September 5, 2024

Saint Mother Theresa (August 26, 1910 –September 5, 1997)

Day 248: Cut to the Heart — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 248: The Spread of Sin — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube

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

1836 – Sam Houston is elected as the first president of the Republic of Texas.
1847-Outlaw Jesse James is born in Missour
1882 – The first United States Labor Day parade is held in New York City.
1972-Massacre begins at Munich Olympics
1975-Gerald Ford survives first assassination attempt
2023-‘Holly’ is one of Stephen King’s most political novels to date Holly is a gripping crime novel — one that’s very close to the traditional King horror aesthetic. The author hasn’t been shy about his politics, but this is one of his most political books to date.

Friday September 6, 2024

Day 249: Prayer of Judith — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 249: The Person in Society — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube

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

1620 – The Pilgrims sail from Plymouth, England on the Mayflower to settle in North America. (Old Style date; September 16 per New Style date.)
1628 – Puritans settle Salem, which became part of Massachusetts Bay Colony.
1972 – Munich massacre: Nine Israeli athletes die (along with a German policeman) at the hands of the Palestinian “Black September” terrorist group after being taken hostage at the Munich Olympic Games. Two other Israeli athletes were slain in the initial attack the previous day.
1997 – The Funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales takes place in London. Well over a million people lined the streets and 21⁄2 billion watched around the world on television.
2023-Jimmy Buffett: more Catholic than you think?

Saturday September 7, 2024

Day 250: Final Wave of Exile — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 250: Conversion in Society — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube

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

1876 – In Northfield, Minnesota, Jesse James and the James–Younger Gang attempt to rob the town’s bank but are driven off by armed citizens.
1927 – The first fully electronic television system is achieved by Philo Farnsworth.
2023-Coast Guard arrests a man trying to run a giant hamster wheel across the Atlantic It was the fourth time the Coast Guard has intercepted Reza Baluchi on his attempts to self-propel his homemade vessel to destinations including Bermuda, New York and London.

Pope Francis@Pontifex (Sep 7, 2023) When we seek first the kingdom of God, cultivating our a right relationship with the Lord, humanity and Creation, then justice and peace can flow like a never-failing stream of pure water, nourishing humanity and all creatures. #SeasonOfCreation

Sunday September 8, 2024

TWENTY-THIRD SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME

Birth of the Blessed Virgin Mary – Feast

Day 251: Judith and Holofernes — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 251: Authorities in Society — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube

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

1253 – Pope Innocent IV canonises Stanislaus of Szczepanów, killed by King Bolesław II.
1276 – Pope John XXI is elected Pope.
1504 – Michelangelo’s David is unveiled in Piazza della Signoria in Florence.
1565 – St. Augustine, Florida is founded by Spanish admiral and Florida’s first governor, Pedro Menéndez de Avilés.
2023- 2023 Marrakesh-Safi earthquake: A 6.9 magnitude earthquake strikes Marrakesh-Safi province in western Morocco, killing at least 2,122 people and damaging historic buildings.^[
2023-Pope Francis meets ‘Rocky’ actor Sylvester Stallone at Vatican

Pope Francis@Pontifex (Sep 8, 2023) God places his hope not in the great and the powerful, but in the small and the humble. #NativityOfMary

Monday September 9, 2024

Saint Peter Claver, priest – Optional Memorial

Day 252: Queen of Heaven — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 252: The Common Good — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube

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

1493 – Christopher Columbus, with 17 ships and 1,200 men, sails on second voyage from Cadiz.
1499 – The citizens of Lisbon celebrate the triumphal return of the explorer Vasco de Gama, completing his two-year journey around the Cape of Good Hope to India.
1956 – Elvis Presley appears on The Ed Sullivan Show for the first time.
1972 – In Kentucky‘s Mammoth Cave National Park, a Cave Research Foundation exploration and mapping team discovers a link between the Mammoth and Flint Ridge cave systems, making it the longest known cave passageway in the world.
2015 – Elizabeth II becomes the longest reigning monarch of the United Kingdom.
2023- Mark and Kristin get last minute tickets to see the High Kings concert in Newport RI

Tuesday September 10, 2024

Day 253: Lamentations of Jeremiah — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 253: Participation in Public Life — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube

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

1608 – John Smith is elected council president of Jamestown, Virginia.
1897-A 25-year-old London taxi driver named George Smith becomes the first person ever arrested for drunk driving after slamming his cab into a building. Smith later pleaded guilty and was fined 25 shillings.
2022 – Death of Queen Elizabeth II: King Charles III is formally proclaimed as monarch at a meeting of the Accession Council in St James’s Palace.
2023- The Ulma family: murdered by the Nazis for hiding Jews in Poland – Rome Reports

Pope Francis@Pontifex (September 9, 2023) Today in Markowa, Poland, the martyrs Józef and Wiktoria Ulma, with their 7 children, were beatified: an entire family exterminated by the Nazis on 24 March 1944 for having given shelter to some persecuted Jews.
May this Polish family, which represented a ray of light in the darkness of the Second World War, be for all of us a model to imitate in zeal for goodness and service to those in need.

Wednesday September 11, 2024

Anniversary of 9/11 Attacks in NY, Washington D.C.

Day 254: Judgment of Nations — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 254: Social Justice — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube

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

1609 – Henry Hudson arrives on Manhattan Island and meets the indigenous people living there.
1775 – Benedict Arnold’s expedition to Quebec leaves Cambridge, Massachusetts.
1851 – Christiana Resistance: Escaped slaves led by William Parker fight off and kill a slave owner who, with a federal marshal and an armed party, sought to seize three of his former slaves in Christiana, Pennsylvania, thereby creating a cause célèbre between slavery proponents and abolitionists.
2001 – The September 11 attacks, a series of coordinated terrorist attacks killing 2,996 people using four aircraft hijacked by 19 members of al-Qaeda. Two aircraft crash into the World Trade Center in New York City, a third crashes into The Pentagon in Arlington County, Virginia, and a fourth into a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania.
2011 – A dedication ceremony is held at the United States National September 11 Memorial on the 10th anniversary of the September 11 attacks in New York City, and the memorial opens to family members.
2023-Owner reunited with her dog that roamed the Atlanta airport for 3 weeks

Thursday September 12, 2024

The Most Holy Name of Mary

Day 255: God is Good — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 255: Human Solidarity — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube

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

1940 – Cave paintings are discovered in Lascaux, France.
1959 – Bonanza premieres, the first regularly scheduled TV program presented in color.
1962 – President John F. Kennedy delivers his “We choose to go to the Moon” speech at Rice University.
2011 – The National September 11 Memorial & Museum in New York City opens to the public.
2013 – NASA confirms that its Voyager 1 probe has become the first manmade object to enter interstellar space.
2023-Another spotless giraffe has been discovered — this time, on a reserve in Namibia

Friday September 13, 2024

Saint John Chrysostom, Bishop and Doctor of the Church

Day 256: Hard Seasons — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 256: The Natural Moral Law — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube

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

1899 – Henry Bliss is the first person in the United States to be killed in an automobile accident.
1964 – Martin Luther King Jr. addresses a crowd of 20,000 West Berliners on Sunday, in Waldbühne.
1985 – Super Mario Bros. is released in Japan for the NES, which starts the Super Mario series of platforming games.
2023-A ufologist claims to show 2 alien corpses to Mexico’s Congress

Saturday September 14, 2024

The Exaltation of the Holy Cross

Day 257: Choose to Love — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 257: The Old Law — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube

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

1226 – The first recorded instance of the Catholic practice of perpetual Eucharistic adoration formally begins in Avignon, France.
1901 – U.S. President William McKinley dies after being mortally wounded on September 6 by anarchist Leon Czolgosz and is succeeded by Vice President Theodore Roosevelt.
1975 – The first American saint, Elizabeth Ann Seton, is canonized by Pope Paul VI.
2022 – Death of Queen Elizabeth II: The Queen’s coffin is taken from Buckingham Palace, placed on a gun carriage of The King’s Troop Royal Horse Artillery and moved in a procession to Westminster Hall for her lying in state over the next four days with The Queue stretching for miles along the River Thames.
2023-Death toll soars to 11,300 from flooding in Libyan coastal city of Derna

HolySoulsVocation@HolySouls3 (Sep 14, 2023)
Let’s say three Hail Marys for the souls who died in violence, and for Nigel and Cian.

Sunday September 15, 2024

TWENTY-FOURTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME

Our Lady of Sorrows

Day 258: The Kingdom is Here — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 258: The New Law — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube

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

1835 – HMS Beagle, with Charles Darwin aboard, reaches the Galápagos Islands. The ship lands at Chatham or San Cristobal, the easternmost of the archipelago.
1954 – Marilyn Monroe‘s iconic skirt scene is shot during filming for The Seven Year Itch.
1966 – U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson, responding to a sniper attack at the University of Texas at Austin, writes a letter to Congress urging the enactment of gun control legislation.
2008 – Lehman Brothers files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, the largest bankruptcy filing in U.S. history.
2023-Survivors of Libya’s deadly floods describe catastrophic scenes and tragic losses

Monday September 16, 2024

Saints Cornelius, Pope, and Cyprian, Bishop, Martyrs

Day 259: The Sermon on the Mount — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
(248) Day 259: The New Commandment — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube

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

681 – Pope Honorius I is posthumously excommunicated by the Sixth Ecumenical Council.
1893 – Settlers make a land run for prime land in the Cherokee Strip in Oklahoma.
1966 – The Metropolitan Opera House opens at Lincoln Center in New York City with the world premiere of Samuel Barber’s opera Antony and Cleopatra.
2023-Irish-born founder of Boys Town, Father Flanagan, may soon be declared Venerable

Tuesday September 17, 2024

Saint Robert Bellarmine, Bishop and Doctor of the Church;
Saint Hildegard of Bingen, Virgin and Doctor of the Church

Day 260: Carrying the Cross — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 260: Summary of the Moral Law — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube

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

1543 – The first Finnish-language book, the Abckiria by Mikael Agricola, is published in Stockholm.
1849 – American abolitionist Harriet Tubman escapes from slavery.
1859 – Joshua A. Norton declares himself “Norton I, Emperor of the United States.”
1983 – Vanessa Williams becomes the first black Miss America.
2023- New Discoveries May Change What We Know About Jerusalem’s Basilica of the Holy Sepulcher

Wednesday September 18, 2024

SAINT JOSEPH OF CUPERTINO, THE FLYING SAINT

Day 261: Ornate Souls — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 261: Justification — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube

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

1793 – The first cornerstone of the United States Capitol is laid by George Washington.
1837 – Tiffany & Co. (first named Tiffany & Young) is founded by Charles Lewis Tiffany and Teddy Young in New York City. The store is called a “stationery and fancy goods emporium”.
1870 – Old Faithful Geyser is observed and named by Henry D. Washburn.
1895 – The Atlanta Exposition Speech on race relations is delivered by Booker T. Washington.
1898 – The Fashoda Incident triggers the last war scare between Britain and France.
2023-A black bear on a tree in Walt Disney World temporarily shut down parts of the park.

Thursday September 19, 2024

Saint Januarius, Bishop and Martyr

Day 262: Miracle Worker — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 262: Habitual and Actual Grace — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube

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

1676 – Jamestown is burned to the ground by the forces of Nathaniel Bacon during Bacon’s Rebellion.
1796 – George Washington’s Farewell Address is printed across America as an open letter to the public.
1881-– President James A. Garfield dies eleven weeks after being shot. Vice President Chester A. Arthur becomes the 21st president of the United States.
1995 – The Washington Post and The New York Times publish the Unabomber manifesto.
2008 – A Learjet 60 carrying musicians Travis Barker and Adam “DJ AM” Goldstein crashes during a rejected takeoff from Colombia Metropolitan Airport in West Columbia, South Carolina, killing four of the six people on board. Barker and Goldstein both survive.
2022 – The state funeral of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom is held at Westminster Abbey, London.
2023-Nigerian diocese calls for prayers for kidnapped priest

Friday September 20, 2024

Saints Andrew Kim Tae-gŏn, Priest, and Paul Chŏng Ha-sang,
and Companions, Martyrs

Day 263: The Father’s Generosity — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 263: Responding to Grace — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube

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

1378 – Cardinal Robert of Geneva is elected as Pope Clement VII, beginning the Papal schism.’
1881 – U.S. President Chester A. Arthur is sworn in upon the death of James A. Garfield the previous day.
1946 – The first Cannes Film Festival is held, having been delayed for seven years due to World War II.
1973 – Singer Jim Croce, songwriter and musician Maury Muehleisen and four others die when their light aircraft crashes on takeoff at Natchitoches Regional Airport in Louisiana.
1982 – NFL season: American football players in the National Football League begin a 57-day strike.’
2019 – Roughly four million people, mostly students, demonstrate across the world to address climate change. Sixteen-year-old Greta Thunberg from Sweden leads the demonstration in New York City.
2023-Pope Francis lauds Catholic saint who fought to end slavery in Africa

John Herreid@HerreidJohn (Sep 20, 2023)
The problem with Catholic Twitter is that you have a bunch of incredibly smart people with like 1k followers and then a handful of guys with the reading comprehension skills of Amelia Bedelia who have 20k followers and suck up all the oxygen

Saturday September 21, 2024

Saint Matthew, Apostle and Evangelist

Day 264: Preaching Without Practice — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 264: Man’s Merit — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube

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

1776 – Part of New York City is burned shortly after being occupied by British forces
1933 – Salvador Lutteroth establishes Mexican professional wrestling.
1964 – Malta gains independence from the United Kingdom, but remains in the Commonwealth.
1981 – Belize is granted full independence from the United Kingdom.
2001 – America: A Tribute to Heroes is broadcast by over 35 network and cable channels, raising over $200 million for the victims of the September 11 attacks.
2023-Catholic peace organization condemns sexual enslavement of Mozambican Christians

Sunday September 22, 2024

TWENTY-FIFTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME

Day 265: Sins of Omission — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 265: The Call to Holiness — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube

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

1896 – Queen Victoria surpasses her grandfather King George III as the longest reigning monarch in British history.
1991 – The Dead Sea Scrolls are made available to the public for the first time.
2023-‘We came back stronger’: Priest, seminarian abducted in Nigeria recall three-week ordeal

Monday September 23, 2024

Saint Pius of Pietrelcina, Priest

Day 266: Son of the Father — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 266: The Gift of Grace — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube

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

1122 – Pope Callixtus II and Holy Roman Emperor Henry V agree to the Concordat of Worms to put an end to the Investiture Controversy.
1846 – Astronomers Urbain Le Verrier, John Couch Adams and Johann Gottfried Galle collaborate on the discovery of Neptune.
2023-‘You don’t play with life’: Pope Francis condemns euthanasia, abortion on papal plane

Tuesday September 24, 2024

Pope Francis@Pontifex(September 24, 2023) Today we celebrate the World Day of #Migrants and #Refugees. Let us allow ourselves to be moved by the stories of so many of our brothers and sisters facing difficulty,who have the right to emigrate or not to emigrate,and not close ourselves in indifference. #WDMR2023 @vaticanIHD

Day 267: Indifference and Apathy — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 267: The Church as Mother and Teacher — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube

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

1789 – The United States Congress passes the Judiciary Act, creating the office of the Attorney General and federal judiciary system and ordering the composition of the Supreme Court.
1890 – The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints officially renounces polygamy.
1906 – U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt proclaims Devils Tower in Wyoming as the nation’s first National Monument.
1929 – Jimmy Doolittle performs the first flight without a window, proving that full instrument flying from take off to landing is possible.
1935 – Earl and Weldon Bascom produce the first rodeo ever held outdoors under electric lights.
1957 – President Eisenhower sends the 101st Airborne Division to Little Rock, Arkansas, to enforce desegregation.

Wednesday September 25, 2024

Day 268: Rebuilding the Temple — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 268: The Precepts of the Church — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube

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

1513 – Spanish explorer Vasco Núñez de Balboa reaches what would become known as the Pacific Ocean.
1775 – American Revolution: Benedict Arnold’s expedition to Quebec sets off.
1957 – Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, is integrated by the use of United States Army troops.
1974 – Dr. Frank Jobe performs first ulnar collateral ligament replacement surgery (better known as Tommy John surgery) on baseball player Tommy John.
1977 – About 4,200 people take part in the first running of the Chicago Marathon.
2018 – Bill Cosby is sentenced to three to ten years in prison for aggravated sexual assault.
2023-CONSIDER THIS FROM NPR WGA Reached A Tentative Deal With Studios. But The Strike Isn’t Over Yet

Day 269: The Day of Small Things — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 269: Our Missionary Witness — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube

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

1493 – Pope Alexander VI issues the papal bull Dudum siquidem to the Spanish, extending the grant of new lands he made them in Inter caetera.
1789 – George Washington appoints Thomas Jefferson the first United States Secretary of State.
1905 – Albert Einstein publishes the third of his Annus Mirabilis papers, introducing the special theory of relativity.
1933 – As gangster Machine Gun Kelly surrenders to the FBI, he shouts out, “Don’t shoot, G-Men!”, which becomes a nickname for FBI agents.
1960 – In Chicago, the first televised debate takes place between presidential candidates Richard M. Nixon and John F. Kennedy.
1969 – Abbey Road, the last recorded album by The Beatles, is released.
2023-ChurchPOP@Church_POP French Basilica Preserves a Unique Relic: Two Drops of Christ’s Blood Shed During His Passion Saint Stephen’s Basilica in France keeps a unique relic: two drops of Christ’s blood. More: https://bit.ly/46sDHIK

Friday September 27, 2023

Saint Vincent de Paul, Priest

Day 270: God’s Favor with Ezra — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 270: The Ten Commandments — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube

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

1540 – The Society of Jesus (Jesuits) receives its charter from Pope Paul III.
1590 – The death of Pope Urban VII, 13 days after being chosen as the Pope, ends the shortest papal reign in history.
1903 – “Wreck of the Old 97“: an American rail disaster, in which 11 people are killed; it later becomes the subject of a popular ballad.^[10]
1908 – Production of the Model T automobile begins at the Ford Piquette Avenue Plant in Detroit.
1962 – Rachel Carson’s book Silent Spring is published, inspiring an environmental movement and the creation of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
1998 – The Google internet search engine retroactively claims this date as its birthday.
2023-Catholic News Agency@cnalive (Sep 27 2023) The Mexican Bishops’ Conference, together with the Jesuits and the Conference of Major Superiors of Religious of Mexico, announced the launch of a Citizen Accord for Peace to “overcome the dynamics of violence and destruction” in the country.

Saturday September 28, 2024

Saint Wenceslaus, Martyr; Saint Lawrence Ruiz and Companions, Martyrs

Day 271: Israel’s Foreign Wives — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 271: Love of God — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube

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

235 – Pope Pontian resigns. He is exiled to the mines of Sardinia, along with Hippolytus of Rome.
1889 – The General Conference on Weights and Measures (CGPM) defines the length of a metre.
1892 – The first night game for American football takes place in a contest between Wyoming Seminary and Mansfield State Normal.
1975 – The Spaghetti House siege, in which nine people are taken hostage, takes place in London.
2023-Catholic News Agency@cnalive (Sep 28, 2023) Italian professor Fabrizia Raguso, one of the original members of the Loyola Community and an alleged victim of Father Marko Rupnik, explained the reasons that led her and other signatories to publish an open letter after a Diocese of Rome report.

Sunday September 29, 2024

TWENTY-SIXTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME

Saints Michael, Gabriel and Raphael, Archangels

Day 272: The Call of Nehemiah — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 272: You Shall Worship the Lord Your God — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube

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

1907 – The cornerstone is laid at the Cathedral Church of Saint Peter and Saint Paul (better known as Washington National Cathedral) in Washington, D.C.
1907 – Gene Autry, American singer, actor, and businessman (d. 1998) is born.
1918 – Germany’s Supreme Army Command tells Kaiser Wilhelm II and Imperial Chancellor Georg Michaelis to open negotiations for an armistice to end World War I.
1990 – Construction of the Cathedral Church of Saint Peter and Saint Paul (better known as Washington National Cathedral) is completed in Washington, D.C.
2023-An emotional support alligator at a Phillies game? What really happened : NPR

Monday September 30, 2024

Saint Jerome, Priest and Doctor of the Church

Day 273: The Lord’s Work — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 273: Him Only Shall You Serve — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube

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

1882 – Thomas Edison’s first commercial hydroelectric power plant (later known as Appleton Edison Light Company) begins operation.
1888 – Jack the Ripper kills his third and fourth victims, Elizabeth Stride and Catherine Eddowes.
1939 – NBC broadcasts the first televised American football game.
1947 – The 1947 World Series begins. It is the first to be televised, to include an African-American player, to exceed $2 million in receipts, to see a pinch-hit home run, and to have six umpires on the field.
2016 – Two paintings with a combined value of $100 million are recovered after having been stolen from the Van Gogh Museum in 2002.
2023-EWTN News@EWTNews: Pope Francis created 21 new cardinals from 15 countries at a consistory in St. Peter’s Square, Vatican City. Now, the current number of cardinals eligible to pick the next pope in the Catholic Church stands at 136, 72% of whom were created by Pope Francis.

Pope Francis@Pontifex (September 30, 2023) The College of Cardinals is called to resemble a symphonic orchestra, representing the synodality of the Church: diversity is indispensable. However, each sound must contribute to the common design. This is why mutual listening is essential.