Here is a look at what is going on in

October 2024

Tuesday October 1, 2024

St. Therese of the Child Jesus

Day 274: Perseverance in Opposition — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 274: Social Duty of Religion — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube

DAILY DEFENSE PODCAST w JIMMY AKIN Justification in James 2 | Catholic Answers Podcasts

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

366 – Pope Damasus I is consecrated.
965 – Pope John XIII is consecrated.
1861 – Mrs Beeton’s Book of Household Management is published, going on to sell 60,000 copies in its first year and remaining in print until the present day.
1890 – Yosemite National Park is established by the U.S. Congress.
1891 – Stanford University opens its doors in California, United States.
1903 – Baseball: The Boston Americans play the Pittsburgh Pirates in the first game of the modern World Series.
1908 – Ford Model T automobiles are offered for sale at a price of US$825.
1928 – Newark Liberty International Airport opens, becoming the first airport in the New York City metro area.
1931 – The George Washington Bridge in the United States is opened, linking New Jersey and New York.
1961 – The United States Defense Intelligence Agency is formed, becoming the country’s first centralized military intelligence organization.
1979 – Pope John Paul II begins his first pastoral visit to the United States.
2023-Catholic News Agency@cnalive: A few thousand Catholics joined Dominican priests and sisters on Saturday for a daylong event in Washington, D.C., focused on praying and reflecting on the rosary to conclude a nine-month rosary novena.

Wednesday October 2, 2024

The Holy Guardian Angels

A Catholic Adventurer@forthequeenbvm (Oct 2, 2023)Your #GuardianAngel was not forced, but was asked, and CHOSE to protect you. The first decision your #angel made was to love you, from before time began. How wonderful is that? #CatholicTwitter

Day 275: Esther Becomes Queen — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 275: Superstition, Idolatry, and Magic — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube

DAILY DEFENSE PODCAST w JIMMY AKIN Between Two Robbers? | Catholic Answers Podcasts

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

1789 – The United States Bill of Rights is sent to the various States for ratification
1870 – By plebiscite, the citizens of the Papal States accept annexation by the Kingdom of Italy.
1928 – The “Prelature of the Holy Cross and the Work of God”, commonly known as Opus Dei, is founded.
1967 – Thurgood Marshall is sworn in as the first African-American justice of the United States Supreme Court.
1980 – Michael Myers becomes the first member of either chamber of Congress to be expelled since the Civil War.
2006 – Five Amish girls are murdered in a shooting at a school in Pennsylvania, United States
2023–Cardinals ask Pope Francis to answer synod ‘dubia’

Thursday October 3, 2024

Day 276: Haman’s Plan — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 276: Irreligion and Atheism — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube

DAILY DEFENSE PODCAST w JIMMY AKIN Who Is the Greatest? | Catholic Answers Podcasts

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

1789 – George Washington proclaims Thursday November 26, 1789 a Thanksgiving Day.
1949 – WERD, the first black-owned radio station in the United States, opens in Atlanta.
1995 – O. J. Simpson murder case: O. J. Simpson is acquitted of the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman.
2023 – Kevin McCarthy is voted out of office, making him the first Speaker to ever be removed from office through a vote.
2023-Donald Trump wants future Republican debates to be canceled after refusing to participate in them | AP News
2023–Bishop calls for intense day of prayer and fasting for end of violence in Mexico

Friday October 4, 2023

Saint Francis of Assisi

Catholic News Agency@cnalive (October 4, 2023) Pope Francis opened the Synod on Synodality’s three-week assembly with a call for the Church to face today’s challenges with a gaze fixed on God rather than “political calculations or ideological battles.”

Pope Francis@Pontifex (October 4, 2023) The #Synod serves to remind us of this: our Mother the Church is always in need of purification, of being “repaired”, for we are a People made up of forgiven sinners, always in need of returning to the source, who is Jesus, to reach everyone with his Gospel.

Day 277: Such a Time as This — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 277: Agnosticism and Graven Images — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube

DAILY DEFENSE PODCAST w JIMMY AKIN The Jewish People and the Old Testament Canon | Catholic Answers Podcasts

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

1511 – Formation of the Holy League of Aragon, the Papal States and Venice against France.
1535 – The Coverdale Bible is printed, with translations into English by William Tyndale and Myles Coverdale.
1582 – The Gregorian Calendar is introduced by Pope Gregory XIII.
1795 – Napoleon first rises to prominence by suppressing counter-revolutionary rioters threatening the National Convention.
1883 – First run of the Orient Express.
1941 – Norman Rockwell’s Willie Gillis character debuts on the cover of The Saturday Evening Post.
1965 – Pope Paul VI begins the first papal visit to the Americas.
2023-Catholic News Agency@cnalive (October 4, 2023): Pope Francis on Wednesday released a new document on the environment that he has described as the “second part” of his 2015 encyclical Laudato Si’, which warns of “grave consequences” if humanity continues to ignore the threat of climate change.

“Praise God for all his creatures”. This was the message that Saint Francis of Assisi proclaimed by his life, his canticles and all his actions. In this way, he accepted the invitation of the biblical Psalms and reflected the sensitivity of Jesus before the creatures of his Father: “Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they neither toil nor spin, yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not clothed like one of these” (Mt6:28-29). “Are not five sparrows sold for two pennies? Yet not one of them is forgotten in God’s sight” (Lk 12:6). How can we not admire this tenderness of Jesus for all the beings that accompany us along the way!-LAUDATE DEUM

Saturday October 5, 2024

Saint Faustina Kowalska, Virgin;
USA: Blessed Francis Xavier Seelos, Priest

National Rhode Island Day (my state)

Day 278: Power in Weakness — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 278: The Second Commandment — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube

DAILY DEFENSE PODCAST w JIMMY AKIN Lest Any Man Should Boast | Catholic Answers Podcasts

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

869 – The Fourth Council of Constantinople is convened to depose patriarch Photios I.
1607 – Assassins attempt to kill Venetian statesman and scientist Paolo Sarpi.
1921 – The World Series is the first to be broadcast on radio.
1938 – In Nazi Germany, Jews’ passports are invalidated.
1962 – The first of the James Bond film series, based on the novels by Ian Fleming, Dr. No, is released in Britain.^[10]
1962 – The first Beatles single “Love Me Do” is released in Britain.
1970 – The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is founded.
1982 – Tylenol products are recalled after bottles in Chicago laced with cyanide cause seven deaths.
2023-An armed man demanding to talk to Wisconsin’s governor was arrested twice in one day The suspect was arrested earlier with a loaded handgun, demanding to see Gov. Tony Evers. After he made bail, he came back with an assault rifle.

Sunday October 6, 2023

Saint Bruno, Priest; USA: Blessed Marie Rose Durocher, Virgin

TWENTY-SEVENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME

Day 279: Blessings and Burdens — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 279: False Oaths — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube

DAILY DEFENSE PODCAST w JIMMY AKIN Does Mary’s Perpetual Virginity Matter? | Catholic Answers Podcasts

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

1898 – Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia, the largest American music fraternity, is founded at the New England Conservatory of Music.
1927 – Opening of The Jazz Singer, the first prominent “talkie” movie.
1979 – Pope John Paul II becomes the first pontiff to visit the White House.
1995 – The first planet orbiting another sun, 51 Pegasi b, is discovered.
2007 – Jason Lewis completes the first human-powered circumnavigation of the Earth.
2010 – Instagram, a mainstream photo-sharing application, is founded.
2023-Synod on Synodality 2023: Facts, Anecdotes, and Analysis From the First Week| National Catholic Register (ncregister.com)

Monday October 7, 2024

Our Lady of the Rosary

Cabrini Day in Colorado

Catholic News Agency@cnalive (October 7, 2023) On October 7, the Catholic Church celebrates the feast of Our Lady of the Rosary. Known for several centuries as “Our Lady of Victory,” the feast day takes place in honor of a 16th century naval victory which secured Europe against Turkish invasion.

A saint and a sea battle: How the rosary saved Christian Europe

Day 280: The People of the Covenant — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 280: The Christian Name — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube

DAILY DEFENSE PODCAST w JIMMY AKIN The Role of the Church Fathers | Catholic Answers Podcasts

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

1691 – The charter for the Province of Massachusetts Bay is issued.
1763 – King George III issues the Royal Proclamation of 1763, closing Indigenous lands in North America north and west of the Alleghenies to white settlements.
1950 – Mother Teresa establishes the Missionaries of Charity.
1996 – Fox News Channel begins broadcasting.
2001 – The U.S. invasion of Afghanistan begins with an air assault and covert operations on the ground, starting the longest war in American history.
2023–‘We are at war,’ Israeli PM Netanyahu says after Gaza militants infiltrate In a surprise attack, Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip on Saturday infiltrated southern Israel, killing at least 22 Israelis. It took place as militants fired dozens of rockets into Israel.

Tuesday October 8, 2023

Day 281: Good and Evil — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 281: Keep Holy the Lord’s Day — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube

DAILY DEFENSE PODCAST w JIMMY AKIN Cafeteria Christianity | Catholic Answers Podcasts

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

1645 – Jeanne Mance opens the first lay hospital of North America in Montreal.
1956 – The New York Yankees’s Don Larsen pitches the only perfect game in a World Series.
2001 – U.S. President George W. Bush announces the establishment of the Office of Homeland Security.

Wednesday October 9, 2024

[Saint Denis, Bishop, and Companions, Martyrs; Saint John Leonardi, Priest]

Day 282: Antiochus Desecrates the Temple — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 282: The Sunday Obligation — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube

Daily Defense Podcast With Jimmy Akin Petros versus Petra | Catholic Answers Podcasts

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

1410 – The first known mention of the Prague astronomical clock.
1635 – Roger Williams is banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony after religious and policy disagreements.
1874 – The Universal Postal Union is created by the Treaty of Bern.
1834 – Opening of the Dublin and Kingstown Railway, the first public railway on the island of Ireland.
1847 – Slavery is abolished in the Swedish colony of Saint Barthélemy.
936 – Boulder Dam (later Hoover Dam) begins to generate electricity and transmit it to Los Angeles.
1937 – Murder of 9 Catholic priests in Zhengding, China, who protected the local population from the advancing Japanese army.
1980 – Pope John Paul II greets the Dalai Lama during a private audience in Vatican City.
1986 – The Phantom of the Opera, eventually the second longest running musical in London, opens at Her Majesty’s Theatre.
1986 – Fox Broadcasting Company (FBC) launches as the fourth US television network.
2023–Israel unleashes attacks on Gaza as Hamas threatens hostages’ lives There are still a number of unaccounted-for U.S. citizens, U.S. officials said, as the fighting entered its third day.

Pope Francis@Pontifex (October 9, 2023)One of the tasks of the #Synod is to journey together and to listen to one another, so that the Spirit can suggest to us new ways and paths to bring the Gospel to the hearts of those who are distant, indifferent or without hope, yet continue to seek “a great joy” (Mt 2:10).

Thursday October 10, 2023

Day 283: Mattathias Attacks — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 283: The Day of Rest — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube

Daily Defense Podcast With Jimmy Akin The Benefits of Religion | Catholic Answers Podcasts

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

1492 – The crew of Christopher Columbus‘s ship, the Santa Maria, attempt a mutiny
1913 – U.S. President Woodrow Wilson triggers the explosion of the Gamboa Dike, completing major construction on the Panama Canal.
1964 – The Tokyo Summer Olympics opening ceremony is the first to be relayed live by satellites.
1973 – U.S. Vice President Spiro Agnew resigns after being charged with evasion of federal income tax.
2023-U.S. bishops launch mental health campaign with special novena, discussions

Friday October 11, 2023

[Saint John XXIII, Pope]

Day 284: Near Occasion of Sin — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 284: The Fourth Commandment — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube

Daily Defense Podcast With Jimmy Akin Justification in James and Paul | Catholic Answers Podcasts

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

1890 – In Washington, D.C., the Daughters of the American Revolution is founded.
1906 – San Francisco sparks a diplomatic crisis between the United States and Japan by ordering segregated schools for Japanese students.
1962 – The Second Vatican Council becomes the first ecumenical council of the Roman Catholic Church in 92 years.
1986 – Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev meet in Iceland to continue discussions about scaling back IRBM arsenals in Europe.
1987 – The AIDS Memorial Quilt is first displayed during the Second National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights.
2023-Women Maya softballers brush off machismo insults to become Mexican superstars The team is called Las Amazonas de Yaxunah. They’ve defied gender stereotypes to become sports heroes. And these women and teens play the game wearing traditional Maya dresses — and no shoes.,

Father Jim Sichko@JimSichko (October 11, 2023) We need to acknowledge that too many critics of Francis speak from an anger that defeats itself and ends by being unjust. His commitment to the poor, his emphasis on mercy, his passion for accompanying the lost and alienated, and his willingness to reach out to the margins: all these things are gifts to the whole Church. They deserve our gratitude and praise. So does his teaching on issues like gender, the sanctity of life, and bioethics . . . much of which is ignored by the mainstream media.

Saturday October 12, 2023

Blessed Carlo Acutis Feast Day

Day 285: Story of Hanukkah — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 285: The Nature of the Family — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube

Daily Defense Podcast With Jimmy Akin Can Science Eliminate God? | Catholic Answers Podcasts

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

October 12 – Wikipedia
1692 – The Salem witch trials are ended by a letter from Province of Massachusetts Bay Governor William Phips.
1799 – Jeanne Geneviève Labrosse becomes the first woman to jump from a balloon with a parachute.
1792 – The first celebration of Columbus Day is held in New York City.
1901 – President Theodore Roosevelt officially renames the “Executive Mansion” to the White House.
1973 – President Nixon nominates House Minority Leader Gerald R. Ford as the successor to Vice President Spiro T. Agnew.
2023-Rudolph Isley, a founding member of the Isley Brothers, has died at 84 He was among the Isleys inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1992.

Sunday October 13, 2024

TWENTY-EIGHTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME

Day 286: The Battle to Choose God — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 286: The Family and Society — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube

Daily Defense Podcast With Jimmy Akin Being Born Again in Scripture | Catholic Answers Podcasts

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

1792 – In Washington, D.C., the cornerstone of the United States Executive Mansion (known as the White House since 1818) is laid.
1843 – In New York City, B’nai B’rith, the oldest Jewish service organization in the world, is founded.
1881 – First known conversation in modern Hebrew by Eliezer Ben-Yehuda and friends.
1903 – The Boston Red Sox win the first modern World Series, defeating the Pittsburgh Pirates in the eighth game.
1917- This day marked the last Marian apparition in Fátima and the day on which thousands of people bore witness to the miracle of the dancing sun — a miracle that shattered the prevalent belief at the time that God was no longer relevant. Catholic News Agency
2023-Whoopi Goldberg reveals ‘remarkable’ meeting with Pope Francis | Catholic News Agency

Monday October 14, 2024

Saint Callistus I, Pope and Martyr; BVM

Columbus Day/Indigenous Peoples Day\Leif Erikson Day

Day 287: Eleazar’s Sacrifice — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 287: The Gratitude of Children — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube

Daily Defense Podcast Being With Jimmy Akin Born Again in the Church Fathers | Catholic Answers Podcasts

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

1586 – Mary, Queen of Scots, goes on trial for conspiracy against Queen Elizabeth I of England
1888 – Louis Le Prince films the first motion picture, Roundhay Garden Scene.
1912 – Former president Theodore Roosevelt is shot and mildly wounded by John Flammang Schrank. With the fresh wound in his chest, and the bullet still within it, Roosevelt delivers his scheduled speech.
1962 – The Cuban Missile Crisis begins when an American reconnaissance aircraft takes photographs of Soviet ballistic missiles being installed in Cuba.
1964 – Martin Luther King Jr. receives the Nobel Peace Prize for combating racial inequality through nonviolence.
2023-Catholic pilgrimage group walks and prays the Katy Trail

Tuesday October 15, 2024

St. Teresa Of Avila – Doctor Of The Church

Day 288: Battling Against Gossip — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 288: The Duties of Parents — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube

Daily Defense Podcast With Jimmy Akin Quoting the Deuterocanonicals | Catholic Answers Podcasts

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

1878 – The Edison Electric Light Company begins operation.
1888 – The “From Hell” letter allegedly sent by Jack the Ripper is received by investigators.
1910 – Airship America is launched from New Jersey in the first attempt to cross the Atlantic by a powered aircraft.
1928 – The airship Graf Zeppelin completes its first trans-Atlantic flight, landing at Lakehurst, New Jersey, United States.
1989 – Wayne Gretzky becomes the all-time leading points scorer in the NHL.
1990 – Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to lessen Cold War tensions and open up his nation.
2018 – 13-year-old American girl, Jayme Closs, is kidnapped from her Barron, Wisconsin home after her parents were both murdered.^[
2023-Pope Francis highlights ‘little greatness’ of St. Thérèse of Lisieux in apostolic letter

Wednesday October 16, 2024

Saint Hedwig, Religious; Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque, Virgin

Day 289: Wise Influences — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 289: Family, Society, and the Kingdom — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube

Daily Defense Podcast With Jimmy Akin Eternal Life | Catholic Answers Podcasts

Last Year I wrote…

Recently I started going to a Catholic Men’s group to enhance my spiritual life.
My wife this past Sunday made final promises as a secular Carmelite (OCDS).
She spends all day praying, doing house work while I’m at the nursing home doing whatever I need to do that day.
She doesn’t get involved in lame internet drama.
She doesn’t decide who is right with God and who isn’t.
She doesn’t bliber blab about how confusing and aweful the Pope is.
She simply tries to say her prayers and love her husband.
She takes her faith seriously and the Pope is not a scandal to her.
My father spent a good amount of time in prayer also.
Our Friend Jackson is thinking of joining a cloistered Benedictine monastery next year in Oklahoma.
I try to go to mass with my wife everyday and do the divine office, go to work and write this blog I get no commentary on.
I will keep writing regardless and try to find a way to pray more.

By the way…

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

1847 – The novel Jane Eyre is published in London
1859 – John Brown leads a raid on Harpers Ferry, Virginia.
1869 – The Cardiff Giant, one of the most famous American hoaxes, is “discovered”.
1916 – Margaret Sanger opens the first family planning clinic in the United States.
1919 – Adolf Hitler delivers his first public address at a meeting of the German Workers’ Party.^[14]
1923 – Walt Disney and his brother, Roy, found the Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio, today known as The Walt Disney Company.
1940 – Holocaust in Poland: The Warsaw Ghetto is established.
1943 – Holocaust in Italy: Raid on the Roman Ghetto.
1946 – Nuremberg trials: Ten defendants found guilty by the International Military Tribunal are executed by hanging.
1953 – Cuban revolutionary Fidel Castro delivers his “History Will Absolve Me” speech, and is sentenced to 15 years’ imprisonment by the Fulgencio Batista government for leading an attack on the Moncada Barracks.^[17]
1962 – Cuban Missile Crisis begins: U.S. President John F. Kennedy is informed of photos taken on October 14 by a U-2 showing nuclear missiles (the crisis will last for 13 days starting from this point).
1978 – Cardinal Karol Wojtyła is elected to the papacy as Pope John Paul II, he becomes the first non-Italian pontiff since 1523.
2023-Islamist kills teacher at French high school, bishop condemns the terrorist attack
2023-6-year-old Palestinian American boy stabbed in alleged hate crime remembered by family, friends (msn.com)

Thursday October 17, 2023

Saint Ignatius of Antioch, Bishop and Martyr

Day 290: Judas Maccabeus Dies — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 290: The Duties of Citizens — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube

Daily Defense Podcast With Jimmy Akin The Early Chapters of Genesis | Catholic Answers Podcasts

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

1534 – Anti-Catholic posters appear in Paris and other cities supporting Huldrych Zwingli‘s position on the Mass.
1931 – Al Capone is convicted of income tax evasion.
1933 – Albert Einstein flees Nazi Germany and moves to the United States.
1969 – The Caravaggio painting Nativity with St. Francis and St. Lawrence is stolen from the Oratory of Saint Lawrence in Palermo.^[
2023-‘It touches every family’: Israeli man says niece among those kidnapped by Hamas

Pope Francis@Pontifex (Oct 17, 2023) I invite all believers to unite with the Church in the Holy Land, dedicating themselves today to prayer and fasting for peace, so that the hostages be freed, civilians not be made victims of the conflict, humanitarian law be respected, and innocent blood not be shed.

Friday October 18, 2024

Saint Luke, Evangelist

Day 291: The Rise of King Alexander — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 291: The Political Community and the Church — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube

Daily Defense Podcast With Jimmy Akin Appealing to Natural Law | Catholic Answers Podcasts

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

1009 – The Church of the Holy Sepulchre, a Christian church in Jerusalem, is completely destroyed by the Fatimid caliph Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah, who hacks the Church’s foundations down to bedrock.
1281 – Pope Martin IV excommunicates King Peter III of Aragon ^[2] for usurping the crown of Sicily (a sentence renewed on 7 May and 18 November 1282).
1775 – African-American poet Phillis Wheatley is freed from slavery.
1851 – Herman Melville‘s Moby-Dick is first published as The Whale by Richard Bentley of London.
1922 – The British Broadcasting Company (later Corporation) is founded by a consortium, to establish a nationwide network of radio transmitters to provide a national broadcasting service.
2023-Pope Francis stresses need to put Jesus at the center of our lives

Saturday October 19, 2023

USA: Saints John de Brébeuf and Isaac Jogues, Priests, red
and Companions, Martyrs

Day 292: The Power of Words — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 292: Respect for Human Life — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube

Daily Defense Podcast With Jimmy Akin Why Isn’t Everything Infallible? | Catholic Answers Podcasts

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

1984 – A Roman Catholic priest, Jerzy Popiełuszko, associated with the Solidarity Union, is killed by three agents of the Polish Communist internal intelligence agency.
2003 – Mother Teresa is beatified by Pope John Paul II.
2023-Catholics around the world join in prayer for peace in the Holy Land

Quote of the Day

Pope Francis@Pontifex (Oct 19, 2023)The proclamation of Christ is one of hope. He knows the anguish and hope we bear in our hearts, the joys and struggles that mark our lives, the darkness that assails us, and the faith that we raise to Heaven like a song in the night. #MissionaryOctober #MissionMonth

Sunday October 20, 2023

TWENTY-NINTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME

USA: Saint Paul of the Cross, Priest

Day 293: Discipline Grounded in Love — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 293: Legitimate Defense — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube

Daily Defense Podcast With Jimmy Akin Historical Polytheism | Catholic Answers Podcasts

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

1973 – Watergate scandal: “Saturday Night Massacre“: United States President Richard Nixon fires U.S. Attorney General Elliot Richardson and Deputy Attorney General William Ruckelshaus after they refuse to fire special prosecutor Archibald Cox, who is finally fired by Solicitor General Robert Bork.
1973 – The Sydney Opera House is opened by Elizabeth II after 14 years of construction.
2023-African Jesuit theologian believes synodality work ‘will begin’ after Rome meetings

Rev. Benjamin Cremer@Brcremer (October 20, 2023) We Christians can never expect people to believe we represent the kingdom of heaven if our politics and practices create hell on earth for others.

Monday October 21, 2023

Day 294: Judea Gains Independence — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 294: Homicide — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube

Daily Defense Podcast With Jimmy Akin Church Councils | Catholic Answers Podcasts

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

1512 – Martin Luther joins the theological faculty of the University of Wittenberg.
1879 – Thomas Edison applies for a patent for his design for an incandescent light bulb.
1921 – President Warren G. Harding delivers the first speech by a sitting U.S. president against lynching in the Deep South.
2021 – A shooting occurs on the set of the film Rust, in which actor Alec Baldwin discharged a prop weapon which had been loaded, killing the director of photography, Halyna Hutchins, and injuring director Joel Souza.

Tuesday October 22, 2024

Pope Francis@Pontifex (October 22, 2023) I remind you that next Friday, 27 October, I have proclaimed a day of fasting, prayer and penance, and that evening at 18.00 in Saint Peter’s Square we will spend an hour in prayer to implore peace in the world.

Day 295: Israel’s Expectations — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 295: The Wound of Abortion — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube

Daily Defense Podcast With Jimmy Akin The Time of the Crucifixion | Catholic Answers Podcasts

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

1746 – The College of New Jersey (later renamed Princeton University) receives its charter.
1883 – The Metropolitan Opera House in New York City opens with a performance of Gounod’s Faust.
2023- Kristin (The Carmelite Catholic Bard) takes her 3rd order final promises as a secular carmelite.

Wednesday October 23, 2024

Saint John of Capistrano, Priest

Day 296: Know Your Heart — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 296: The Sin of Euthanasia — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube

Daily Defense Podcast With Jimmy Akin “Adding” the Deuterocanonicals | Catholic Answers Podcasts

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

1641 – Irish Catholic gentry from Ulster attempt to seize control of Dublin Castle, the seat of English rule in Ireland, so as to force concessions.
1958 – Belgian artist Peyo‘s comic characters, the Smurfs, make their debut in Spirou magazine.^[
2023-UPDATE: Synod on Synodality this week: Anticipating a ‘Letter to the People of God’

Thursday October 24, 2024

Saint Anthony Mary Claret, Bishop

Day 297: Using Good Things for Evil — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 297: The Cross of Suicide — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube

Daily Defense Podcast With Jimmy Akin Peter in Rome | Catholic Answers Podcasts

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

1861 – The first transcontinental telegraph line across the United States is completed.
1901 – Annie Edson Taylor becomes the first person to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel.
1946 – A camera on board the V-2 No. 13 rocket takes the first photograph of earth from outer space.
1947 – Famed animator Walt Disney testifies before the House Un-American Activities Committee, naming Disney employees he believes to be communists.
2023-Attacked by Hamas at home, Israeli survivors find solace in a hotel • Residents of a kibbutz near Israel’s border with Gaza are living in a hotel after Hamas killed dozens of people and destroyed homes in their community.

Friday October 25, 2024

Saints Crispin and Crispinian

Day 298: The Gift of Life — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 298: Respect for Others — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube

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

285 or 286 – Execution of Saints Crispin and Crispinian during the reign of Diocletian, now the patron saints of leather workers, curriers, and shoemakers.
1616 – Dutch sea-captain Dirk Hartog makes the second recorded landfall by a European on Australian soil, at the later-named Dirk Hartog Island off the West Australian coast.
1940 – Benjamin O. Davis Sr. is named the first African American general in the United States Army.
2023-On the evening of October 25, 2023, a spree shooting occurred in two locations in Lewiston, Maine, United States. Eighteen people were killed and thirteen others were injured.

Saturday October 26, 2024

Day 299: Jeremiah Hides the Ark — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 299: Respect for Health — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube

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

1937 – Nazi Germany begins expulsions of 18,000 Polish Jews.
1881 – Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday participate in the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, Arizona.
1985/1955-➠ Back to the Future HQ �@bttfHQ (Oct 26, 2023)
On this Day in Hill Valley History: October 26, 1985: Doc is shot, Marty is chased by the Libyans, guns it to 88mph, and travels back in time!
2023-Vatican puts 35 Catholic ‘martyrs of Kandhamal’ in India on road to sainthood
2023-Father Marco Rupnik, accused of abuse and returned to ministry: A timeline
2023- Night Court Star Richard Moll Dies (January 13, 1943 – October 26, 2023)
2023-Maine officials say 18 people were killed and 13 injured in Lewiston mass shooting

Sunday October 27, 2024

THIRTIETH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME

Day 300: Conversion of Heart — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 300: Science, Bodily Integrity, and the Dead — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube

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

1885/1955➠ Back to the Future HQ �@bttfHQ (Oct 27, 2023) On this day in Hill Valley History: October 27: Marty returns from 1885, The Delorean is destroyed and Doc returns in his Time Train!
1962 – Major Rudolf Anderson of the United States Air Force becomes the only direct human casualty of the Cuban Missile Crisis when his U-2 reconnaissance airplane is shot down over Cuba by a Soviet-supplied surface-to-air missile.
1967 – Catholic priest Philip Berrigan and others of the ‘Baltimore Four’ protest the Vietnam War by pouring blood on Selective Service records.
2023-Pope Francis consecrates war-torn world to Virgin Mary in Eucharistic prayer vigil | Catholic News Agency

Monday October 28, 2024

Saints Simon and Jude, Apostles

Day 301: Rising Again — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 301: Peace — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube

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

1726 – The novel Gulliver’s Travels written by Jonathan Swift is published.
1893 – Pyotr Tchaikovsky‘s Symphony No. 6 in B Minor, Pathétique receives its première performance only nine days before the composer’s death.
1965 – Pope Paul VI promulgates Nostra aetate, by which the Roman Catholic Church officially recognizes the legitimacy of non-Christian faiths.
2023 Vatican releases Synod on Synodality report proposing larger role for laity in Church

Tuesday October 29, 2023

Day 302: The Pursuit of Wisdom — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 302: War — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube

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

1901 – In Amherst, Massachusetts, nurse Jane Toppan is arrested for murdering the Davis family of Boston with an overdose of morphine.
1964 – Biggest jewel heist; involving the Star of India in the American Museum of Natural History in New York City by Murph the Surf and gang.^[
2023-Pope Francis at Synod closing Mass: To reform the Church, adore God and love others

Sometimes I feel like I’m just phoning it in with my Last Week in Life blog posts. I’m tired from lack of sleep. I got a CPAP machine but so far it has not made a difference. My mind feels frazzled. I’ve also been doing research on other writing projects. I’ve spent time with friends and my wife which occupy my time. I have to go to work. I feel that I don’t always put the quality I should into these posts. I would like to reconstruct the way I do them. Actually I would like to stop doing them cause they don’t seem great quality and it is sort of a project to do.

But I started doing it and I believe in completing what I started. Everytime I feel like I’m not going to finish I keep on going. It could be better but then again it is good enough.

The write lesson is that you can find the determination to keep going even when you feel like stopping or not going on. It’s good to finish the race and complete the goal you’ve started even when it is not as good as you might like it. The commitment will somehow pay off. Sometimes it is the time to sign off and begin something new. But then again sometimes it is good to finish what you started and make it complete. So I keep on writing at least till the end of the year. With that in mind…

Wednesday October 30, 2023

Day 303: Eleazar’s Martyrdom — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 303: Summary of the Fifth Commandment — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube

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