The Last Month of the year and the first week of advent has begun.
Happy New Church Year Fellow Catholics.
Here’s What Happen Last Week and Year in Life.
Monday 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
Daily Defense Podcast With Jimmy Akin God’s Hiddenness | Catholic Answers Podcasts
Here’s What Happen Last Week and Year in Life.
- 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
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Quote of the Day
The Dan in The Mirror@ZJoyfulCatholic (Nov 27, 2023) You know you’re old when you get excited over opening a new pack of legal pads. ��
Tuesday November 28, 2023
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
Daily Defense Podcast With Jimmy Akin The Assumption of Mary | Catholic Answers Podcasts
Here’s What Happen Last Week and Year in Life.
- 1811 – Beethoven‘s Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-flat major, Op. 73, premieres at the Gewandhaus in Leipzig.
- 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
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Quote of the Day
Fr. Stephen Vrazel@KeytarCatholic (November 29, 2023) Kids in the 80s thought religious people were crazy and stupid for thinking Dungeons and Dragons was spiritually dangerous. Guess what normal people think of you when you express concern over Taylor Swift *summoning demons* onstage at her concerts.
Wednesday 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
Daily Defense Podcast With Jimmy Akin The Limits of Science | Catholic Answers Podcasts
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.
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Quote of the Day
Thursday November 30, 2023
Saint Andrew, Apostle
Day 334: The Meaning of Fasting — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 334: How Jesus Prayed — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Daily Defense Podcast With Jimmy Akin Legislating Morality | Catholic Answers Podcasts
Here’s What Happen Last Week and Year in Life.
- 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.
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Quote of the Day
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
Friday December 1, 2023
Day 335: Run the Race — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 335: Jesus Teaches Us to Pray — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Daily Defense Podcast With Jimmy Akin Solo Magisterio | Catholic Answers Podcasts
Here’s What Happen Last Week and Year in Life.
- 1824 – United States presidential election: Since no candidate received a majority of the total electoral college votes in the election, the United States House of Representatives is given the task of deciding the winner in accordance with the Twelfth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
- 1934 – Sergei Kirov is assassinated, paving way for the repressive Great Purge, and Vinnytsia massacre by General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Joseph Stalin.
- 2023-Executions are on the rise in the U.S., even as public support wanes
Twenty-four executions have been carried out in 2023 — five more than last year, the Death Penalty Information Center says. Meanwhile, 50% of Americans say the death penalty is applied unfairly.
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Quote of the Day
The Dan in The Mirror@ZJoyfulCatholic (December 1, 2023) My family got rid of full cable before the end of Sabrina The Teenage Witch, so I never got to find out if she solved the family secret, and it still bugs me.
Old Hollow Tree@OldHollowTree (December 2, 2023) You do not need to echo the talking heads. You do not need to have a hot take. Show us instead the small, mundane, beautiful moments of your December. The homespun delights, the candles on the mantle, the silent nights. All infinitely superior to The Current Thing ™.
Saturday December 2, 2023
Day 336: The Council at Jerusalem — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 336: Jesus Hears Our Prayer — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Daily Defense Podcast With Jimmy Akin Practical and Evidential Reason | Catholic Answers Podcasts
Here’s What Happen Last Week and Year in Life.
- 1244 – Pope Innocent IV arrives at Lyon for the First Council of Lyon.
- 1804 – At Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, Napoleon Bonaparte crowns himself Emperor of the French.
- 2020 – Cannabis is removed from the list of most dangerous drugs of the international drug control treaty by the UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs.
- 2023 –Israel says it has hit more than 400 targets in Gaza since end of truce with Hamas
The temporary truce that collapsed early Friday followed seven weeks of fighting in Gaza sparked by simultaneous attacks on southern Israel by Hamas militants on Oct. 7.
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Quote of the Day
Katie Prejean McGrady@KatiePMcGrady (December 2, 2023) The morning after an emergency trip to the hospital for my 86 year old grandfather, the 3 year old throws up, my flight for a gig in Nashville leaves at noon, and we are, of course, out of coffee.
Brian Holdsworth@briankeepsworth (December 3, 2023) Today, while driving, I saw a group of people spontaneously break out into a speed walking race and I’m here to say, I’d like to see more of that in the world.
Sunday December 3, 2023
FIRST SUNDAY OF ADVENT
Day 337: The Importance of Love — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 337: Blessing, Adoration, and Petition — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Daily Defense Podcast With Jimmy Akin Extraordinary Claims, Extraordinary Evidence | Catholic Answers Podcasts
Here’s What Happen Last Week and Year in Life.
- 1800 – United States presidential election: The Electoral College casts votes for president and vice president that result in a tie between Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr.
- 1818 – Illinois becomes the 21st U.S. state.
- 1901 – In a State of the Union message, U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt delivers a 20,000-word report to the House of Representatives asking Congress to curb the power of trusts “within reasonable limits”. The speech was not delivered in person.
- 1960 – The musical Camelot debuts at the Majestic Theatre on Broadway. It will become associated with the Kennedy administration.
- 2023-The shadowy Hamas leader behind the war against Israel
Yahya Sinwar, the leader of Hamas in the Gaza Strip, is widely believed to have helped mastermind the unprecedented Hamas attack that changed the course of Israeli-Palestinian history.
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Quote of the Day
Zac Mabry@ZacMabry (December 3, 2023) The era of being nice to each other is upon us
The Catholic Engineer@TheCatholicEngr (December 3, 2023) The Eucharist is a portal to heaven We create millions of portals everyday With FaceTime In just a few clicks I’m literally talking to someone on the other side of the globe This didn’t exist 100 or even 50 years ago But thanks to a few thousand people studying math and electromagnetism, we can communicate with anyone in the world today If God gave us the ability to create these devices in the physical world, why can’t God himself create a portal to him in the spiritual world?