From Homeless Kid to Chess Master at Age 10-Last Week In Life: May 24, 2021- May 30, 2021

Last updated on: November 30, 2022 at 1:09 am By Mark Wilson

Last Week In Life: May 24, 2021- May 30, 2021 FEAST DAYS ,HOLIDAYS AND LAST WEEK IN HISTORY Mon May 24, 2021 The Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of the Church 1607– One hundred English settlers disembark in Jamestown, the first permanent English colony in America. 1915– World War I: Italy declares war on Austria-Hungary, joining the conflict on the side of the Allies. 1935– The first night game in Major League Baseball history is played in Cincinnati, Ohio, with the Cincinnati Reds beating the Philadelphia Phillies 2–1 at Crosley Field. 1940– Igor Sikorsky performs the first successful single-rotor helicopter... Read more

Remembering the Holy Men and Women of World War II

Last updated on: November 30, 2022 at 1:09 am By Mark Wilson

Memorial Day is the day we remember our fallen brother and sisters in arms who answered the call to defend the interests of our nation by engaging in that horrible reality known as war. Anyone who has served and has risked their lives in combat deserves to remembered for their willingness to do something that they would probably rather not be doing. Getting shot at by unknown people in a foreign land cannot be anybody’s idea of time well spent.... Read more

God in his deepest mystery is not a solitude but a family,

Last updated on: November 30, 2022 at 1:09 am By Mark Wilson

Where One is Three Only as God can be Father, Son & Holy Ghost Is there one you relate to most? Problem? God can hear it True Love in Love in Love 1+1+1=1 If the 3 = one is my math done? No, don’t you see He is the Holy Trinity Our triune God for infinity Jesus seems more tangible, human like us In his Father he did trust The Paraclete on Pentecost Holy Spirit be Full of holy wisdom,... Read more

The Wisdom of Steve Skojec

Last updated on: November 30, 2022 at 1:09 am By Mark Wilson

Sometimes the road to God is long, hard and dark. You hope that God will turn on a light and miraculously illuminate your soul with liberating truth. That is the hope. But sometimes Jesus just turns on the Dark Knight of the Soul. Like St. Teresa of Avila we fall in the mud and yell at God, “If this is how you treat your friends, it’s a wonder you don’t have so many”. At times like this it is when... Read more

Last Week in Life Easy Access Portal

Last updated on: November 30, 2022 at 1:09 am By Mark Wilson

Life in cyberspace moves pretty fast, if you don’t stop to read and like or comment once in a while you could miss it. So in order to see some of the sights and sounds that constantly are passing us by Take a Look at the Last Week in Life which is the Catholic Bard Week in Review Exclusive (CB WIRE) As I write this weekly column it continues to change and evolve. Here is the Last Week in Life So... Read more

Beauty of Hidden Prayer Sparks Conversion-Last Week In Life: May 17 2021- May 23, 2021

Last updated on: November 30, 2022 at 1:09 am By Mark Wilson

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Last Week In Life: May 17, 2021- May 23, 2021 FEAST DAYS ,HOLIDAYS AND LAST WEEK IN HISTORY Mon May 17, 2021 1536 – Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn‘s marriage is annulled. 1902 – Greek archaeologist Valerios Stais discovers the Antikythera mechanism, an ancient mechanical analog computer. 1954 – The United States Supreme Court hands down a unanimous decision in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas, outlawing racial segregation in public schools. 1973 – Watergate scandal: Televised hearings begin in the United States Senate. 2004 – The first legal same-sex marriages in the U.S. are performed in the... Read more

Pope Francis and the 7 Gifts of the Holy Spirit

Last updated on: November 30, 2022 at 1:09 am By Mark Wilson

The Church, therefore, instructed by the words of Christ, and drawing on the experience of Pentecost and her own apostolic history, has proclaimed since the earliest centuries her faith in the Holy Spirit, as the giver of life, the one in whom the inscrutable Triune God communicates himself to human beings, constituting in them the source of eternal life. Dominum et vivificantem (18 May 1986) | John Paul II (vatican.va) When the Holy Spirit came down upon the 120... Read more

Jimmy Akin’s Mysterious 50’s Part 2

Last updated on: November 30, 2022 at 1:09 am By Mark Wilson

Welcome to part 2 of Jimmy Akin’s Mysterious 50’s Click on here for Part 1 There are a lot of great podcasts and Youtube videos out in cyberspace dealing with the strange, fantastic, and mysterious incidents that happen in our universe. Spine-chilling paranormal. The wonders of Science and Technology. Unknown Cryptids. Mystical Historical Mysteries. Grisly True Crime. But with Jimmy Akin’s Mysterious World you get something you don’t get with other podcasts that are similar. You get... Read more

Jimmy Akin’s Mysterious 50’s Part 1

Last updated on: November 30, 2022 at 1:09 am By Mark Wilson

One of the most fascinating time periods in modern history is the 1950’s. In the aftermath of the bloodiest war in history rose the threat of another potentially more lethal war. One with the power to wipe out most of life on the planet. With the threat of atomic bombs causing school children to duck and cover under their desks and their families building bomb shelters, came an actual war against the communists in Korea and in the witch hunt... Read more

Unusual News From Around the World -Last Week In Life: May 10, 2021- May 16, 2021

Last updated on: November 30, 2022 at 1:09 am By Mark Wilson

Last Week In Life: May 10, 2021- May 16, 2021 FEAST DAYS ,HOLIDAYS AND LAST WEEK IN HISTORY Mon May 10, 2021 Saint John of Ávila, priest and doctor of the Church – optional memorial Catholic Bard 1 Year Anniversary 1569 – Saint Doctor John of Ávila dies. (b. 1500-1569) 1773 – The Parliament of Great Britain passes the Tea Act, designed to save the British East India Company by reducing taxes on its tea and granting it the right to sell tea directly to North America. The legislation... Read more

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