Half Way Through 2023 LWIL # 26

At 183 days and 26 weeks were half way through 2023.

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

At Half way through the year.

Monday June 26, 2023

Day 177: Return, O Israel — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 177: The Celebration of Confirmation — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube

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

684 – Pope Benedict II is the last pope to require confirmation by the Byzantine emperor before taking office.
1409 – Western Schism: The Roman Catholic Church is led into a double schism as Petros Philargos is crowned Pope Alexander V after the Council of Pisa, joining Pope Gregory XII in Rome and Pope Benedict XIII in Avignon.
1909 – The Science Museum in London comes into existence as an independent entity.
1927 – The Cyclone roller coaster opens on Coney Island.
1936 – Initial flight of the Focke-Wulf Fw 61, the first practical helicopter.
1948 – Shirley Jackson‘s short story The Lottery is published in The New Yorker magazine.
1967 – Karol Wojtyła (later John Paul II) made a cardinal by Pope Paul VI.
1977 – Elvis Presley held his final concert in Indianapolis, Indiana at Market Square Arena.
1997 – J. K. Rowling publishes the first of her Harry Potter novel series, Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone in United Kingdom.
2007 – Pope Benedict XVI reinstates the traditional laws of papal election in which a successful candidate must receive two-thirds of the votes.
2015 – The U.S. Supreme Court ruled, 5–4, that same-sex couples have a constitutional right to marriage under the 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution.
2023-San Antonio airport worker sucked into a Delta jet’s engine died by suicide : NPR May God have mercy on his soul and console his family.
Quote of the Day

Meg Hunter-Kilmer@MegHunterKilmer(June 27, 2023)

Tonight I told an 8yo boy that it’s okay that his feelings get hurt easily because it means he has a tender heart. “And when you have a tender heart, it can break open to let other people inside so you can love them well.” Oh, the look of wonder and delight on his little face!

Mary Pezzulo@mary_pezzulo (June 26, 2023) For the hundredth, nay, the thousandth time: “dogma” is not another word for “doctrine.” It doesn’t make you sound super duper extra Catholic to use that word. It makes you sound like you don’t know what you’re talking about.

Tuesday June 27, 2023

Saint Cyril of Alexandria, Bishop and Doctor of the Church

Day 178: Called Back — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 178: Who Receives Confirmation — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube

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

1844 – Joseph Smith, founder of the Latter Day Saint movement, and his brother Hyrum Smith, are killed by a mob at the Carthage, Illinois jail.
1895 – The inaugural run of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad‘s Royal Blue from Washington, D.C., to New York City, the first U.S. passenger train to use electric locomotives.
1898 – The first solo circumnavigation of the globe is completed by Joshua Slocum from Briar Island, Nova Scotia.
1922–First Newbery Medal for children’s literature awarded to Hendrik Willem van Loon.
1950 – The United States decides to send troops to fight in the Korean War.
1974 – U.S. president Richard Nixon visits the Soviet Union.
2023-Ryan Seacrest will be new ‘Wheel of Fortune’ host after Pat Sajak : NPR
Quote of the Day

Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ@padresj (June 30, 2023) For years, when I explained that I was “pro-life” b/c I wanted to create a society in which abortion was NOT the preferred action (one w/universal health care, access to education & opportunities for the disadvantaged, criminal justice reform, etc.) the “pro-lifers” mocked me. The common refrain was, “First we have to STOP abortion, then all the other policies will come” … It’s now been a full year since abortion was made completely illegal in Alabama. Do you know how many baby-friendly policies have been proposed in that year? Zero.

Wednesday June 28, 2023

Saint Irenaeus, Bishop and Martyr

Day 179: Blinded by Comfort — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 179: Summary of Confirmation — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube

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

1894 – Labor Day becomes an official US holiday.
1902 – The U.S. Congress passes the Spooner Act, authorizing President Theodore Roosevelt to acquire rights from Colombia for the Panama Canal.
1914 – Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife Sophie are assassinated in Sarajevo; this is the casus belli of World War I.
1969 – Stonewall riots begin in New York City, marking the start of the Gay Rights Movement.
2007-Bald Eagle removed from list of threatened species.
2023-New TV shows and movies are delayed or canceled as writers strike stretches on : NPR
Quote of the Day

R Bratten Weiss@Prof_RBW (Jun 28, 2023) If fire and brimstone didn’t come down on the U.S. when the U.S. kidnapped, enslaved, raped, and murdered millions of Black people, fire and brimstone definitely will not be raining down just because some LGBTQ people are happy and not closeted.

Thursday June 29, 2023

SAINTS PETER AND PAUL, APOSTLES

Day 180: Giving Time to God — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 180: The Source and Summit — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube

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

1457 – The Dutch city of Dordrecht is devastated by fire.
1534 – Jacques Cartier is the first European to reach Prince Edward Island.
1613 – The Globe Theatre in London, built by William Shakespeare‘s playing company, the Lord Chamberlain’s Men, burns to the ground.
1620 – English crown bans tobacco growing in England, giving the Virginia Company a monopoly in exchange for tax of one shilling per pound.
1786 – Alexander Macdonell and over five hundred Roman Catholic highlanders leave Scotland to settle in Glengarry County, Ontario.
1889 – Hyde Park and several other Illinois townships vote to be annexed by Chicago, forming the largest United States city in area and second largest in population at the time.
1972 – The United States Supreme Court rules in the case Furman v. Georgia that arbitrary and inconsistent imposition of the death penalty violates the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments and constitutes cruel and unusual punishment.
1987 – Vincent van Gogh‘s painting, the Le Pont de Trinquetaille, is bought for $20.4 million at an auction in London, England.
2023-Google says it will start blocking Canadian news stories in response to new law : NPR
Quote of the Day

Rick Rice@BoldlyCatholic (June 29, 2023) On this Solemnity of Saints Peter and Paul, I heard something today I’d not heard before… if Peter is the Rock (representing the Institution), Paul is the Roll (representing the Mission). Rock and Roll baby!!

Meg Wise@_nomadic_soul (June 29, 2023) I just don’t understand people who want our country to be Christian but don’t want our country to do Christian things.

Friday June 30, 2023

The First Martyrs of the Holy Roman Church

Day 181: Jonah and the Whale — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 181: The Sacrament of the Eucharist — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube

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

296 – Pope Marcellinus begins his papacy.
1859 – French acrobat Charles Blondin crosses Niagara Falls on a tightrope.
1860 – The 1860 Oxford evolution debate at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History takes place.
1864 – U.S. President Abraham Lincoln grants Yosemite Valley to California for “public use, resort and recreation”.
1882 – Charles J. Guiteau is hanged in Washington, D.C. for the assassination of U.S. President James Garfield.
1886 – The first transcontinental train trip across Canada departs from Montreal, Quebec. It arrives in Port Moody, British Columbia on July 4.
1905 – Albert Einstein sends the article On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies, in which he introduces special relativity, for publication in Annalen der Physik.
1966 – The National Organization for Women, the United States’ largest feminist organization, is founded.
1968 – Pope Paul VI issues the Credo of the People of God.^[
1985 – Thirty-nine American hostages from the hijacked TWA Flight 847 are freed in Beirut after being held for 17 days.
2019 – Donald Trump becomes the first sitting US President to visit the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea).
2023-France is roiled by protests after police killed a teenager named Nahel : NPR
2023-Supreme Court to consider whether domestic abusers can own guns : NPR

Movies Opening

Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny

Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken

Quote of the Day

�� . ��@cmsorrps4610 (June 30, 2023) Is anyone else fed up with far left leaning and far right leaning Catholics believing that they can attack practicing Catholics who actually try their best to live out the Faith according to what the Church actually teaches not simply their opinions? #CatholicTwitter

Saturday July 1, 2023

USA: Saint Junípero Serra, Priest; BVM

Day 182: The Inescapable God — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 182: The Signs of Bread and Wine — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube

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

1523 – Jan van Essen and Hendrik Vos become the first Lutheran martyrs, burned at the stake by Roman Catholic authorities in Brussels.
1770 – Lexell’s Comet is seen closer to the Earth than any other comet in recorded history, approaching to a distance of 0.0146 astronomical units (2,180,000 km; 1,360,000 mi).
1862 – The Russian State Library is founded as the Library of the Moscow Public Museum.
1870 – The United States Department of Justice formally comes into existence.
1873 – Prince Edward Island joins into Canadian Confederation.
1878 – Canada joins the Universal Postal Union.
1946 – Crossroads Able is the first postwar nuclear weapon test.
1966 – The first color television transmission in Canada takes place from Toronto.
1978 – The Northern Territory in Australia is granted self-government.
1979 – Sony introduces the Walkman.
1980 – “O Canada” officially becomes the national anthem of Canada.
2007 – Smoking in England is banned in all public indoor spaces.
2023-Twitter users report problems accessing the site in latest outage : NPR
Quote of the Day

Mark Brumley@mabrumley (July, 1 2023 ) Saw Asteroid City. The alien is a metaphor. So is the asteroid. So is the city. Then there’s that a part where a woman did a thing at a place. Plus people acted in black & white and in color. Back and forth. It was a play. In a play. As a movie. With actors acting like actors.

Sunday July 2, 2023

Day 183: Israel Falls to Assyria — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 183: The Mass of All Ages — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube

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

1613 – The first English expedition (from Virginia) against Acadia led by Samuel Argall takes place.
1839 – Twenty miles off the coast of Cuba, 53 kidnapped Africans led by Joseph Cinqué mutiny and take over the slave ship Amistad.
1962 – The first Walmart store, then known as Wal-Mart, opens for business in Rogers, Arkansas.
2005 – The Live 8 benefit concerts takes place in the G8 states and in South Africa. More than 1,000 musicians perform and are broadcast on 182 television networks and 2,000 radio networks.
2013 – The International Astronomical Union names Pluto’s fourth and fifth moons, Kerberos and Styx.
2023-Violence appears to be lessening in French protests over teen’s killing : NPR

Quote of the Day

Friar Nick@FrNickOFMConv (July 3, 2023)
Visiting friends in Baltimore

I had a Manhattan, then mint ice cream with peanut butter

Living the dream