In my particular series of historical blog posts (Heck of a Ride Around the Sun) I have tried to include and insert many many canonized Catholic Saints, Blesseds, Venerables and Servants of God into the timelines. I may have missed some and it’s hard to go back and drop them into history. So I’m putting them here in this particular series of articles on the Catholic Bard’s List of Saints. I took the General Roman Calendar, some books on saints,... Read more
Last Time on HOARATS The Post Civil War Years – 1870 – 1879 As we enter into the 1880’s Rutherford B. Hayes (1822–1893) was president # 44 March 4, 1877 – March 4, 1881 Leo XIII (March 2, 1810 – July 20, 1903) was Pope # 256 Papal Reign February 20, 1878 – July 20, 1903 (25 years, 150 days) Electricity starts to be more widely used. P.T. Barnum starts a circus and gets an elephant. The first movie that... Read more
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... Read more
O.K. Patrick, in the early days of the infant Christian church different viewpoints started to arise about just who the person and identity of Jesus Christ truly is. Some heretical opinions surfaced that challenged the apostolic orthodox tradition of who Christ is and also got the early church fathers thinking about how to clearly proclaim with dogmatic certitude what the church left in charge by Jesus truly believed about the identity of her founder. Patrick is the name given to... Read more
Kristin and I both recently returned from traveling to Ireland. Today I have to return to the real world and resume my activities. Not sure I’m ready to go back to normal from visiting A land of greenfields and ancient castles. Doesn’t matter how I feel, it’s time. We had a grand lovely experience while traveling and visiting historic sites and extended family members. I’m gonna write a whole post dedicated to that. But every great adventure like normal life... Read more
Saint Faustina Kowalska was born on August 25, 1905. She is the patron of Divine Mercy. 69 years later Kristin ‘The Carmelite’ Nealon Wilson and her twin sister Kathleen was born. And she almost died. Due to the intercession of the first American born saint Saint Elizabeth Anne Seaton, God showed mercy on her and allowed her to live after successful open heart surgery saved her life. 50 years later she is still roaming around this earth. Her life turned... Read more
Crazy! This was my first impression of St. Francis after reading about his life as described in “The Little Flowers of Saint Francis.” Crazy because his thought and the thoughts of his monks seemed so out of the ordinary compared to what modern church society thinks. I can’t picture modern day Franciscans such as Fr. Terry asking Fr. Scanlon to step on his throat and mouth telling him “Lie there, you country lout, How is it that you have so... Read more
Last Time on HOARATS The Civil War Years in Wonderland- 1860 – 1869 As we enter into the 1870’s Bl. Pius IX was Pope # 255 Ulysses S. Grant (1822–1885) was U.S. President # 19 from March 4, 1869 – March 4, 1877 1870 Picture This Ford Madox Brown – Romeo and Juliet News of the World Following the death of her husband Patrick, Catherine McCarty (Billy the Kid’s mom) and her sons moved to Indianapolis, Indiana, where she met William Henry... Read more
“You are great, Lord, and highly to be praised.” (Confessions 1.1) And in your wisdom O’ Lord you have given us thy servant Aurelius Augustinus, known to us living in the 21st century as the great doctor of the church, St. Augustine. “The praise of Augustine has never ceased to be proclaimed in the Church of God”, said Pope Pius XI.[1] He has been praised so much because he has given us a solid bedrock of theology in which our... Read more
Last Time on HOARATS Stop and Pray the Angelus between 1850 – 1859 And now we enter into the 1860’s Long Citations are taken from Dr. Wikipedia unless otherwise stated. In the bloody Civil War that split our nation, American bishops worked for the success of the Union . . . and of the Confederacy! As Catholics slaughtered Catholics, pious priests on both sides prayed God to give success in battle. . . to their own side. Men in blue and men in... Read more
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