Thursday November 1, 2023
All Saints Day
You Can be a SAINT!!! | Kristin Wilson (patheos.com)
Day 305: The Defender — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 305: The Call to Chastity — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
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Here’s What Happen Last Week and Year in Life.
- 1503 – Pope Julius II is elected.
- 1512 – The ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, painted by Michelangelo, is exhibited to the public for the first time.
- 1604 – William Shakespeare‘s tragedy Othello is performed for the first time, at Whitehall Palace in London.
- 1611 – Shakespeare’s play The Tempest is performed for the first time, at Whitehall Palace in London.
- 1800 – John Adams becomes the first President of the United States to live in the Executive Mansion (later renamed the White House).
- 1848 – In Boston, Massachusetts, the first medical school for women, Boston Female Medical School (which later merged with the Boston University School of Medicine), opens.
- 1894 – Buffalo Bill, 15 of his Native Americans, and Annie Oakley were filmed by Thomas Edison in his Black Maria Studio in West Orange, New Jersey.
- 1896 – A picture showing the bare breasts of a woman appears in National Geographic magazine for the first time.
- 1897 – The first Library of Congress building opens its doors to the public; the library had previously been housed in the Congressional Reading Room in the U.S. Capitol.
- 1938 – Seabiscuit defeats War Admiral in an upset victory during a match race deemed “the match of the century” in horse racing.
- 1952 – Nuclear weapons testing: The United States successfully detonates Ivy Mike, the first thermonuclear device, at the Eniwetok atoll. The explosion had a yield of ten megatons TNT equivalent.
- 2023- Pope Francis calls for ‘paradigm shift’ in theology for world of today
Fr. Joseph Krupp@Joeinblack ( November 1, 2023)
When we read about the lives of Saints, most of what we learn will seem unattainable, but that’s because we are hearing a whole life time in two pages. Saints are made in the daily grind: the little decisions day by day to do what is right: to pray, to grow, to serve and to sacrifice.
Sainthood doesn’t always feel glorious as it’s happening, it usually feels like a simply deciding to do right no matter the cost. It feels like not joining in when others are getting ripped on. It feels like taking less quietly so others can have more. Much of sainthood is the quiet little secrets between you and Jesus; when you swallow your pride, sacrifice what you want and do it because of love. Saints are not made in a day, they are made in the day to day.
Pray. Love.
Sacrifice.
Be humble.
Be a Saint.
#AllSaintsDay #talkedtotheboss
Saturday November 2, 2023
All Souls Day
Day 306: Wisdom Is Beautiful — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 306: Gift of Self — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
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Here’s What Happen Last Week and Year in Life.
- 1868 – Time zone: New Zealand officially adopts a standard time to be observed nationally.
- 1983 – U.S. President Ronald Reagan signs a bill creating Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.[30]
- 1984 – Capital punishment: Velma Barfield becomes the first woman executed in the United States since 1962.
- 1986 – Lebanon hostage crisis: U.S. hostage David Jacobsen is released in Beirut after 17 months in captivity.
Sunday November 3, 2023
THIRTY-FIRST SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME
[Saint Martin de Porres, Religious]
Day 307: Courage in Battle — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 307: Offenses Against Chastity — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
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Here’s What Happen Last Week and Year in Life.
- 1493 – Christopher Columbus first sights the island of Dominica in the Caribbean Sea.
- 1534 – English Parliament passes the first Act of Supremacy, making King Henry VIII head of the Anglican Church, supplanting the pope and the Roman Catholic Church.
- 1793 – French playwright, journalist and feminist Olympe de Gouges is guillotined.
- 1838 – The Times of India, the world’s largest circulated English language daily broadsheet newspaper is founded as The Bombay Times and Journal of Commerce.
- 1908 – William Howard Taft is elected the 27th President of the United States.
- 1911 – Chevrolet officially enters the automobile market in competition with the Ford Model T.
- 1936 – Franklin D. Roosevelt is elected the 32nd President of the United States.
- 2020 – The 2020 United States presidential election takes place between Democratic Joe Biden and Republican incumbent President Donald Trump. On November 7, Biden was declared the winner.
- 2023-Jesuits say they warned diocese that incardinated Rupnik had complaints against him
- 2023-Nigerian bishop: Tens of thousands spent to rescue kidnapped priests, seminarians
Monday November 4, 2023
Saint Charles Borromeo, Bishop
Day 308: Little by Little — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 308: Same-Sex Attraction — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
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Here’s What Happen Last Week and Year in Life.
- 1493 – Christopher Columbus reaches the Leeward Islands.
- 1783 – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart‘s Symphony No. 36 is performed for the first time in Linz, Austria.
- 1922 – In Egypt, British archaeologist Howard Carter and his men find the entrance to Tutankhamun‘s tomb in the Valley of the Kings.
- 1952 – The United States government establishes the National Security Agency, or NSA.
- 1979 – Iran hostage crisis: A group of Iranian college students overruns the U.S. embassy in Tehran and takes 90 hostages.
- 2023-More than 40,000 young people make pilgrimage to Virgin of Rio Blanco shrine in Argentina
Tuesday November 5, 2023
Day 309: Praying for the Dead — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 309: Faithful and Fruitful Marriage — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
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Here’s What Happen Last Week and Year in Life.
- 1499 – The Catholicon, written in 1464 by Jehan Lagadeuc in Tréguier, is published; this is the first Breton dictionary as well as the first French dictionary.
- 1605 – Gunpowder Plot: Guy Fawkes is arrested in the cellars of the Houses of Parliament, where he had planted gunpowder in an attempt to blow up the building and kill King James I of England.
- 1895 – George B. Selden is granted the first U.S. patent for an automobile.
- 1912 – Woodrow Wilson is elected the 28th President of the United States, defeating incumbent William Howard Taft.
- 1916 – The Everett massacre takes place in Everett, Washington as political differences lead to a shoot-out between the Industrial Workers of the World organizers and local police.
- 1925 – Secret agent Sidney Reilly, the first “super-spy” of the 20th century, is executed by the OGPU, the secret police of the Soviet Union.
- 1955 – After being destroyed in World War II, the rebuilt Vienna State Opera reopens with a performance of Beethoven‘s Fidelio.
- 1968 – Richard Nixon is elected as 37th President of the United States.
- 1996 – Bill Clinton is reelected President of the United States.
- 2006 – Saddam Hussein, the former president of Iraq, and his co-defendants Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti and Awad Hamed al-Bandar, are sentenced to death in the al-Dujail trial for their roles in the 1982 massacre of 148 Shia Muslims.
- 2023-Pope Francis opens two new laundromats for the homeless
Wednesday November 6, 2023
Day 310: Rivals for the Heart — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 310: The Gift of a Child — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
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Here’s What Happen Last Week and Year in Life.
- 1860 – Abraham Lincoln is elected the 16th president of the United States with only 40% of the popular vote, defeating John C. Breckinridge, John Bell, and Stephen A. Douglas in a four-way race.
- 1900 – President William McKinley is re-elected, along with his vice-presidential running mate, Governor Theodore Roosevelt of New York. Republicans also swept the congressional elections, winning increased majorities in both the Senate and the House of Representatives.
- 1947 – Meet the Press, the longest running television program in history, makes its debut on NBC Television.
- 2023-Shooting hoops for heaven: Boston seminarians form basketball team for God
Thursday November 7, 2023
Day 311: God Fights for You — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 311: Adultery and Divorce — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
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- 680 – The Sixth Ecumenical Council commences in Constantinople.
- 1504 – Christopher Columbus returns from his fourth and last voyage.
- 1929 – In New York City, the Museum of Modern Art opens to the public.
- 1944 – Franklin D. Roosevelt is elected for a record fourth term as President of the United States.
- 1967 – US President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967, establishing the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
- 1973 – The United States Congress overrides President Richard Nixon‘s veto of the War Powers Resolution, which limits presidential power to wage war without congressional approval.
- 1991 – Magic Johnson announces that he is HIV-positive and retires from the NBA.
- 2000 – The controversial US presidential election is later resolved in the Bush v. Gore Supreme Court case, electing George W. Bush as the 43rd President of the United States.
- 2020 – Joe Biden is elected the 46th president of the United States.
- 2023-A pod of orcas has sunk a yacht in the Strait of Gibraltar The pod rammed the boat’s rudder for about 45 minutes. Authorities were able to get crew members to land safely, but their yacht was irreparably damaged.
Friday November 8, 2023
Day 312: Conclusion to the Old Testament — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 312: Polygamy, Incest, and Free Union — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Daily Defense Podcast With Jimmy Akin Merit and Reward | Catholic Answers Podcasts
Here’s What Happen Last Week and Year in Life.
- 1602 – The Bodleian Library at the University of Oxford is opened to the public.
- 1889 – Montana is admitted as the 41st U.S. state.
- 1895 – While experimenting with electricity, Wilhelm Röntgen discovers the X-ray.
- 1923 – Beer Hall Putsch: In Munich, Adolf Hitler leads the Nazis in an unsuccessful attempt to overthrow the German government.
- 1932 – Franklin D. Roosevelt is elected as the 32nd President of the United States, defeating incumbent president Herbert Hoover.
- 1960 – John F. Kennedy is elected as the 35th President of the United States, defeating incumbent Vice President Richard Nixon, who would later be elected president in 1968 and 1972.
- 1988 – U.S. Vice President George H. W. Bush is elected as the 41st president.
- 2023-Pope Francis to release an autobiography in the spring
Saturday November 9, 2023
The Dedication of the Lateran Basilica
Day 313: The Ark of the New Covenant — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 313: Ownership of Goods — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
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Here’s What Happen Last Week and Year in Life.
- 1791 – The Dublin Society of United Irishmen is founded.
- 1887 – The United States receives rights to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
- 1906 – Theodore Roosevelt is the first sitting President of the United States to make an official trip outside the country, doing so to inspect progress on the Panama Canal.
- 1906 – Theodore Roosevelt is the first sitting President of the United States to make an official trip outside the country, doing so to inspect progress on the Panama Canal.
- 1985 – Garry Kasparov, 22, of the Soviet Union, becomes the youngest World Chess Champion by beating fellow Soviet Anatoly Karpov.
- 2023-Thai farmhands in Israel face a grim choice: work in a war zone or go home to poverty Some 30,000 Thais were working in Israel prior to the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks. More than 7,000 have left Israel since. More than 50 Thai citizens were killed or taken hostage in the attacks.
- 2023-Up First briefing: GOP debate takeaways; striking actors and studios reach a deal Five presidential candidates — but no Trump — debated the Israel-Hamas war and other issues onstage in Miami. SAG-AFTRA says it’s reached a deal of “extraordinary scope” with Hollywood studios.
Sunday November 10, 2023
THIRTY-SECOND SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME
Saint Leo the Great, Pope and Doctor of the Church
Day 314: My Beloved Son — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 314: Goods of 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.
- 1202 – Fourth Crusade: Despite letters from Pope Innocent III forbidding it and threatening excommunication, Catholic crusaders begin a siege of Zara (now Zadar, Croatia).
- 1898 – Beginning of the Wilmington insurrection of 1898, the only instance of a municipal government being overthrown in United States history
- 1958 – The Hope Diamond is donated to the Smithsonian Institution by New York diamond merchant Harry Winston.
- 1969 – National Educational Television (the predecessor to the Public Broadcasting Service) in the United States debuts Sesame Street.
- 1983 – Bill Gates introduces Windows 1.0.
- 2023-Military archbishop: Pray for our veterans on Veterans Day
Monday November 11, 2023
Saint Martin of Tours, Bishop
Veteran’s Day
Day 315: The Virtue of Mercy — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 315: The Church’s Social Doctrine — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Daily Defense Podcast With Jimmy Akin The Limits of Infallibility | Catholic Answers Podcasts
Here’s What Happen Last Week and Year in Life.
- 1215 – The Fourth Council of the Lateran meets, defining the doctrine of transubstantiation, the process by which bread and wine are, by that doctrine, said to transform into the body and blood of Christ.
- 1620 – The Mayflower Compact is signed in what is now Provincetown Harbor near Cape Cod.
- 1889 – The State of Washington is admitted as the 42nd state of the United States.
- 1921 – The Tomb of the Unknowns is dedicated by US President Warren G. Harding at Arlington National Cemetery.
- 1923 – Adolf Hitler is arrested in Munich for high treason for his role in the Beer Hall Putsch.
- 1926 – The United States Numbered Highway System is established.
- 2006 – Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II unveils the New Zealand War Memorial in London, United Kingdom, commemorating the loss of soldiers from the New Zealand Army and the British Army.
- 2023-In canonically rare step, Pope Francis has removed Bishop Joseph Strickland as Bishop of Tyler, Texas.Pope Francis removes Tyler’s Bishop Strickland (pillarcatholic.com)
- Pope Francis prays for infant Indi Gregory as life support set to be removed in UK
Tuesday November 12, 2023
Saint Josaphat, Bishop and Marty
Day 316: Absolute Surrender — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 316: Labor and Social Justice — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Daily Defense Podcast With Jimmy Akin Bishops, Priests, and Deacons | Catholic Answers Podcasts
Here’s What Happen Last Week and Year in Life.
- 1912 – The frozen bodies of Robert Scott and his men are found on the Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica
- 1938 – Nazi Germany issues the Decree on the Elimination of Jews from Economic Life prohibiting Jews from selling goods and services or working in a trade, totally segregating Jews from the German economy.
- 1958 – A team of rock climbers led by Warren Harding completes the first ascent of The Nose on El Capitan in Yosemite Valley.
- 1979 – Iran hostage crisis: In response to the hostage situation in Tehran, U.S. President Jimmy Carter orders a halt to all petroleum imports into the United States from Iran.
- 1990 – Tim Berners-Lee publishes a formal proposal for the World Wide Web.
- 2021 – The Los Angeles Superior Court formally ends the 14-year conservatorship to pop singer Britney Spears.
- 2023-Church in Jerusalem welcomes new consecrated member
- 2023-Catholic News Service Rome@CatholicNewsSvc (November 12, 2023)#PopeFrancis: On Israel-Hamas conflict. “Enough! Enough, brothers, enough! … Every human being, whether Christian, Jew or Muslim, of whatever people or religion, every human being is sacred, is precious in the eyes of God and has the right to live in peace.”
Wednesday November 13, 2023
Saint Frances Xavier Cabrini, Virgin
Day 317: International Justice and Solidarity — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 317: International Justice and Solidarity — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
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Here’s What Happen Last Week and Year in Life.
- 1940 – Walt Disney‘s animated musical film Fantasia is first released at New York’s Broadway Theatre, on the first night of a roadshow.
- 2023 –Outspoken atheist Ayaan Hirsi Ali says she is now a Christian
Thursday November 14, 2023
Day 318: The Narrow Gate, Lost Sheep, and Prodigal Son — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 318: Love for the Poor — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Daily Defense Podcast With Jimmy Akin Pascal’s Wager | Catholic Answers Podcasts
Here’s What Happen Last Week and Year in Life.
- 1851 – Moby-Dick, a novel by Herman Melville, is published in the USA.
- 2023-Meet the Spanish saint who helps those who suffer from diabetes
Friday November 15, 2023
Saint Albert the Great, Bishop and Doctor of the Church
Day 319: Come, Follow Me — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 319: Summary of the Seventh Commandment — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Daily Defense Podcast With Jimmy Akin Objections to Pascal’s Wager | Catholic Answers Podcasts
Here’s What Happen Last Week and Year in Life.
- 1938 – Nazi Germany bans Jewish children from public schools in the aftermath of Kristallnacht.[
- 2001 – Microsoft launches the Xbox game console.
- 2023 –U.S. bishops approve voting guide that calls abortion ‘preeminent priority’
Saturday November 16, 2023
[Saint Margaret of Scotland; Saint Gertrude, Virgin]
Day 320: Peter’s Denial Foretold — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 320: The Truth — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
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- 1793 – French Revolution: Ninety dissident Roman Catholic priests are executed by drowning at Nantes.
- 1855 – David Livingstone becomes the first European to see the Victoria Falls in what is now Zambia–Zimbabwe.
- 1938 – LSD is first synthesized by Albert Hofmann from ergotamine at the Sandoz Laboratories in Basel
- 1940 – New York City’s “Mad Bomber” George Metesky places his first bomb at a Manhattan office building used by Consolidated Edison.
- 1973 – Skylab program: NASA launches Skylab 4 with a crew of three astronauts from Cape Canaveral, Florida for an 84-day mission.
- 1973 – U.S. President Richard Nixon signs the Trans-Alaska Pipeline Authorization Act into law, authorizing the construction of the Alaska Pipeline.
- 1990 – Pop group Milli Vanilli are stripped of their Grammy Award because the duo did not sing at all on the Girl You Know It’s True album. Session musicians had provided all the vocals.
- 2023 –EWTN anchor’s Christmas album climbs the charts
- 2023 – Catholic Relief Services calls for ‘immediate cessation of violence’ in Gaza to allow aid
Sunday November 17, 2023
THIRTY-THIRD SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME
Saint Elizabeth of Hungary, Religious
Day 321: Jesus’ Prayer in the Garden — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 321: Offenses Against Truth — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
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- 1800 – The United States Congress holds its first session in Washington, D.C.
- 1947 – The Screen Actors Guild implements an anti-Communist loyalty oath.
- 1962 – President John F. Kennedy dedicates Washington Dulles International Airport, serving the Washington, D.C., region.
- 1973 – Watergate scandal: In Orlando, Florida, U.S. President Richard Nixon tells 400 Associated Press managing editors “I am not a crook.”
- 2003 – Actor Arnold Schwarzenegger’s tenure as the governor of California began.
- 2019 – The first known case of COVID-19 is traced to a 55-year-old man who had visited a market in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China.
- 2023 –Here’s what ‘border bishops’ think about the migrant crisis
Monday November 18, 2023
[The Dedication of the Basilicas of Saints Peter and Paul, Apostles;
USA: Saint Rose Philippine Duchesne, V
Day 322: The Ascension — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 321: Offenses Against Truth — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
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- 326 – The old St. Peter’s Basilica is consecrated by Pope Sylvester I.
- 1095 – The Council of Clermont begins: called by Pope Urban II, it led to the First Crusade to the Holy Land
- 1302 – Pope Boniface VIII issues the Papal bull Unam sanctam, claiming spiritual supremacy for the papacy.
- 1493 – Christopher Columbus first sights the island now known as Puerto Rico.
- 1626 – The new St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome is consecrated.
- 1872 – Susan B. Anthony and 14 other women are arrested for voting illegally in the United States presidential election of 1872.
- 1910 – In their campaign for women’s voting rights, hundreds of suffragettes march to the British Parliament in London. Several are beaten by police, newspaper attention embarrasses the authorities, and the march is dubbed Black Friday.
- 1978 – In Jonestown, Guyana, Jim Jones leads his Peoples Temple to a mass murder–suicide that claimed 918 lives in all, 909 of them in Jonestown itself, including over 270 children.
- 2013 – NASA launches the MAVEN probe to Mars.
- 2023 –Pope Francis to meet with families of Israeli hostages and Palestinians with relatives in Gaza
Tuesday November 19, 2023
Day 323: Pentecost — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 323: Truth, Beauty, and Sacred Art — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
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- 1493 – Christopher Columbus goes ashore on an island called Borinquen he first saw the day before. He names it San Juan Bautista (later renamed again Puerto Rico).
- 1955 – National Review publishes its first issue.
- 1969 – Apollo program: Apollo 12 astronauts Pete Conrad and Alan Bean land at Oceanus Procellarum (the “Ocean of Storms”) and become the third and fourth humans to walk on the Moon.
- 1998 – Clinton–Lewinsky scandal: The United States House of Representatives Judiciary Committee begins impeachment hearings against U.S. President Bill Clinton.
- 2004 – The worst brawl in NBA history results in several players being suspended. Several players and fans are charged with assault and battery.
- 2023- ‘Mass of a Lifetime’ reminds elderly ‘their community has not forgotten them’
Pope Francis@Pontifex (November 19, 2023) Let us continue to pray for tormented Ukraine, and for the populations of Palestine and Israel. Peace is possible. Let us not resign ourselves to war! And let us not forget that war is always, always, always a defeat: the only ones to gain are arms manufacturers.
Wednesday November 19, 2023
Day 324: The Name of Jesus — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 324: The Ninth Commandment — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
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- 1805 – Beethoven’s only opera, Fidelio, premieres in Vienna.
- 1900 – The French actress Sarah Bernhardt receives the press at the Savoy Hotel in New York at the outset of her first visit since 1896. She talked about her impending tour with a troupe of more than 50 performers and her plans to play the title role in Hamlet.
- 1959 – The Declaration of the Rights of the Child is adopted by the United Nations.
- 1962 – Cuban Missile Crisis ends: In response to the Soviet Union agreeing to remove its missiles from Cuba, U.S. President John F. Kennedy ends the quarantine of the Caribbean nation.
- 2023 –Priest delivers twin babies outside cathedral in Washington state.
Thursday November 21, 2023
The Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Day 325: Boldness in Faith — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
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- 164 BCE – Judas Maccabeus, son of Mattathias of the Hasmonean family, rededicates the Temple in Jerusalem, an event is commemorated each year by the festival of Hanukkah. (25 Kislev 3597 in the Hebrew calendar.)[1]
- 235 – Pope Anterus succeeds Pontian as the nineteenth pope.
- 1620 – Plymouth Colony settlers sign the Mayflower Compact (November 11, O.S.)
- 1905 – Albert Einstein‘s paper that leads to the mass–energy equivalence formula, E = mc², is published in the journal Annalen der Physik.
- 2023 –Catholics call for opening of canonization cause for sacristan slain by jihadist in Spain
Friday November 22, 2023
Saint Cecilia, Virgin and Martyr
Scott Barber@thescottbarber (Nov 22, 2023) Your yearly reminder that C.S. Lewis and Aldous Huxley died the same day JFK was assassinated, November 22, 1963.
Day 326: Life in the Spirit — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
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Aldous Huxley (July 26, 1894) was an English writer and philosopher best known for his classic dystopian novel ‘Brave New World’.
C.S. Lewis (November 29, 1898) was a British writer and lay theologian. In the Christian world he is known for his great apologetics work Mere Christianity and The Screwtape Letters. To the rest of the world he is best known as the creator of fictional land of Narnia. He also happen to be great friends with the creator of middle earth, J.R.R. Tolkien.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy (May 29, 1917), often referred as to just JFK, was the 35th president of the United States in 1961.
What do all these men have in common?
They all died on November 22, 1963.
Police officer J. D. Tippit (September 18, 1924 – November 22, 1963) also died having been shot by Lee Harvey Oswald. This day also claimed the death of internist Nazi physician Wilhelm Franz Josef Beiglböck (10 October 1905 – 22 November 1963).
Peter Kreeft captures this event (fictionally) in the first of his many dialog books, “Between Heaven and Hell: A Dialog Somewhere Beyond Death” in 1982. The souls of John F. Kennedy, C. S. Lewis, & Aldous Huxley all meet in Purgatory on the day that they all die. They engage in a philosophical discussion on faith, life and death. It’s a fascinating bit of trivia turned into a fascinating book about a possible fascinating meeting beyond earthly life.
Wilhelm Beiglböck, an Austrian-German physician (b. 1905) also died on this day, but doesn’t factor into this story at all.
Here is a taste…
Lewis: Why, it’s Huxley! Aldous Huxley. Aldous, welcome. How did you get here?
Huxley: Same way you did, I’m sure. I just died. Oh, I say! Kennedy and Lewis! What good company to die in—or live in, whatever we’re doing. Where is this place, anyway?
Kennedy: That’s what we’re trying to figure out. Lewis thinks it may be some sort of limbo or purgatory. I’m just hoping it’s not hell.
Huxley: Well, you’re both wrong. It’s heaven. It must be heaven. Kennedy: Why? Huxley: Because everywhere is heaven, if only you have enlightened eyes. Lewis: Even hell?
Huxley: Oh, this is going to be fun! Lewis, you’ve lost none of your cantankerous penchant for Socratic questioning, have you? I remember you made Oxford a regular hornets’ nest when you debated back on earth, and now you’ve shipped your hornets to heaven. This is a nice challenge.
Lewis: Then reply to it. If everywhere is heaven, then either hell does not exist, or hell is part of heaven. Which way will you have it, Aldous?
Kennedy: Wait, please! Before you two take off, could you give me some assurances about this sort of debate? I was a debater too, but we politicians confined ourselves to the concrete and tangible. I’m not at all convinced you can do anything more than talk through your hat about things you’ve never seen.
Lewis: So you want an assurance that there is some method of really finding the truth about things we can’t see.
The following day after all 3 men had died, the beginning of one of the most iconic and mysterious science fiction shows premiered on British TV.
Dr. Who
The show’s launch was overshadowed by the assassination of American President John F. Kennedy the previous day, resulting in a repeat of the first episode the following week. But 60 years later it is celebrating it’s special anniversary.
- 1307 – Pope Clement V issues the papal bull Pastoralis Praeeminentiae which instructed all Christian monarchs in Europe to arrest all Templars and seize their assets.
- 1963 – U.S. President John F. Kennedy is assassinated and Texas Governor John Connally is seriously wounded by Lee Harvey Oswald, who also kills Dallas Police officer J. D. Tippit after fleeing the scene. U.S Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson is sworn in as the 36th President of the United States afterwards.
- 1963 – Wilhelm Beiglböck, German Nazi physician at Dachau concentration camp (b. 1905) dies.
- 1963 – Aldous Huxley, British writer (Brave New World) (b. 1894) dies.
- 1963 – C. S. Lewis, Irish-born British critic, novelist (The Chronicles of Narnia) and Christian apologist (b. 1898) dies.
- 2023 –YouTube removes popular Catholic channel, accuses it of being a scam
- 2023 –Hallow App defends partnership with Liam Neeson, a supporter of abortion
- 2023 –Pope Francis meets with relatives of Palestinians living in Gaza
- 2023 –Alabama priest marries teen after abandoning post, leaving for Europe
Saturday November 23, 2023
[Saint Clement I, Pope and Martyr; Saint Columban, Abbot;
USA: Blessed Miguel Agustín Pro, Priest and Martyr;
Was Squanto Catholic? What we know about this hero of the first Thanksgiving
Day 327: Origin of the Diaconate — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 327: Poverty of Heart — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
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- 1644 – John Milton publishes Areopagitica, a pamphlet decrying censorship.
- 1733 – The start of the 1733 slave insurrection on St. John in what was then the Danish West Indies.
- 1910 – Johan Alfred Ander becomes the last person to be executed in Sweden.
- 1924 – Edwin Hubble‘s discovery, that the Andromeda “nebula” is actually another island galaxy far outside our own Milky Way, is first published in The New York Times.
- 1963 – The BBC broadcasts An Unearthly Child (starring William Hartnell), the first episode of the first story from the first series of Doctor Who, which is now the world’s longest running science fiction drama
- 2023 –Archbishop to invite young North Koreans to next World Youth Day in Seoul
- 2023 –Peruvian bishops hail new law that specifies the rights of the unborn child
Sunday November 24, 2023
OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST, KING OF THE UNIVERSE
Saint Andrew Dũng-Lạc, Priest, and Companions, Martyrs
Day 328: Stephen Is Martyred — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 328: How We Pray (Part 4 Intro w/ Sr. Miriam James Heidland) — The Catechism in a Year – YouTube
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- 1877 – Anna Sewell‘s animal welfare novel Black Beauty is published.
- 1963 – Lee Harvey Oswald, the assassin of President John F. Kennedy, is killed by Jack Ruby on live television. Robert H. Jackson takes a photograph of the shooting that will win the 1964 Pulitzer Prize in Photography.
- 1969 – Apollo program: The Apollo 12 command module splashes down safely in the Pacific Ocean, ending the second crewed mission to land on the Moon.
- 1974 – Donald Johanson and Tom Gray discover the 40% complete Australopithecus afarensis skeleton, nicknamed “Lucy” (after The Beatles song “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds“), in the Awash Valley of Ethiopia‘s Afar Depression.
- 2023 –‘Red Week’: Buildings and monuments across the world lit red in honor of persecuted Christians
Monday November 25, 2023
Saint Catherine of Alexandria,
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Day 329: The Ethiopian Eunuch — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 329: The Gift of Prayer — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
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- 1120 – The White Ship sinks in the English Channel, drowning William Adelin, son and heir of Henry I of England.[
- 1915 – Albert Einstein presents the field equations of general relativity to the Prussian Academy of Sciences.
- 1963 – State funeral of John F. Kennedy; after lying in state at the United States Capitol, a Requiem Mass takes place at Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle and the President is buried at Arlington National Cemetery.
- 1981 – Pope John Paul II appoints Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger (the future Pope Benedict XVI) Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.
- 1999 – A five-year-old Cuban boy, Elián González, is rescued by fishermen while floating in an inner tube off the Florida coast.
- 2023 –Vatican draws line on women’s ordination and homosexuality in new letter to German bishops
Tuesday November 26, 2023
Day 330: Sauls’ Conversion — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 330: The Revelation of Prayer — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
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- 1778 – In the Hawaiian Islands, Captain James Cook becomes the first European to visit Maui.
- 1789 – A national Thanksgiving Day is observed in the United States as proclaimed by President George Washington at the request of Congress.
- 1917 – The National Hockey League is formed, with the Montreal Canadiens, Montreal Wanderers, Ottawa Senators, Quebec Bulldogs, and Toronto Arenas as its first teams.
- 1922 – The Toll of the Sea debuts as the first general release film to use two-tone Technicolor. (The Gulf Between was the first film to do so, but it was not widely distributed.)
- 1986 – The trial of John Demjanjuk, accused of committing war crimes as a guard at the Nazi Treblinka extermination camp, starts in Jerusalem.
- 2011 – The Mars Science Laboratory launches to Mars with the Curiosity Rover.
- 2023-In pictures: emotional scenes as Israel and Hamas trade hostages for prisoners Hamas freed 17 hostages and Israel released 39 Palestinian detainees. We take a look at what has happened so far.
Wednesday November 27, 2023
Day 331: Peter Preaches to the Gentiles — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 331: The Foundations of Prayer — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
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- 1095 – Pope Urban II declares the First Crusade at the Council of Clermont.
- 1830 – Saint Catherine Labouré experiences a Marian apparition.
- 2004 – Pope John Paul II returns the relics of Saint John Chrysostom to the Eastern Orthodox Church.
- 2023 –Pope Francis sends rosary to president-elect Milei of Argentina
Thursday November 28, 2023
Thanksgiving Day
Day 332: Barnabas and Paul’s Mission — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 332: Prayer Converts Our Heart — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
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- 1925 – The Grand Ole Opry begins broadcasting in Nashville, Tennessee, as the WSM Barn Dance.
- 1942 – In Boston, Massachusetts, a fire in the Cocoanut Grove nightclub kills 492 people.
- 2023 –Vatican cancels Pope Francis’ trip to climate conference in Dubai, citing ongoing illness
Friday November 29, 2023
Day 333: Peter Is Rescued from Prison — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 333: The Psalms — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
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Here’s What Happen Last Week and Year in Life.
- 1877 – Thomas Edison demonstrates his phonograph for the first time.
- 1972 – Atari releases Pong, the first commercially successful video game.[
- 2023 –More captives to be freed as mediators work to prolong the Israel-Hamas truce At least 30 Palestinians in Israeli jails and 10 hostages held by Hamas are likely to be freed on Wednesday. U.S. and Israeli officials were in Qatar trying to work out a further cease-fire extension.
- 2023 – Henry Kissinger (May 27, 1923 – November 29, 2023) Died. He was a German-born American diplomat, political scientist, geopolitical consultant, and politician who served as United States secretary of state and national security advisor in the presidential administrations of Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford between 1969 and 1977.
Saturday November 30, 2023
Saint Andrew, Apostle
Day 334: The Meaning of Fasting — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
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- 1872 – The first-ever international football match takes place at Hamilton Crescent, Glasgow, between Scotland and England.
- 1995 – Official end of Operation Desert Storm.[15]
- 1995 – U.S. President Bill Clinton visits Northern Ireland and speaks in favor of the “Northern Ireland peace process” to a huge rally at Belfast City Hall; he calls IRA fighters “yesterday’s men”.
- 2023-Shane MacGowan, irascible frontman of The Pogues, has died at age 65
Shane MacGowan was a famously hard-drinking but brilliant musician who shot to fame in the 1980s with the folk punk band The Pogues.
Fr. Larry Richards@FrLarryRichards (Nov 30, 2023) If you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved” Romans 10:9 You do your part and let God do His! Peace
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