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Last Week and Year In Life: Week 2- 2023-Elvis’s Big Week

Last Week and Year In Life: Week 2- 2023-Elvis’s Big Week

Last updated on: February 5, 2023 at 10:15 pm by Mark Wilson

Last Week and Year In Life: Week 2- 2023-Elvis’s Big Week 2023-02-05T22:15:18-05:00 Mark Wilson

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Here I go for round 2 of looking back at what happened…

Last Week and Year in Life.

This week the Trial of Joan of Arc began.

Austin Butler got a golden globe for his portal of Elvis while the real Elvis performed his memorable concert Aloha from Hawaii.

While Elvis performed in the tropical paradise, Johnny Cash performed live at Folsom State Prison.

Sadly Elvis Presley’s daughter Lisa Marie Presley (February 1, 1968 – January 12, 2023) he had with actress Priscilla Presley died at age 54. Last week Eight is Enough actor Adam Rich also died at age 54. Yikes I’m 51 about to turn 52 soon.

This week also marks the anniversary of when we officially found out smoking was bad for you and when the Frisbee first came on the market.

And Wikipedia, which I get most of my data and trivia from first went online.

Monday January 9, 2023

St. Julian of Antioch and St. Peter of Sebaste

Day 9: Sodom and Gomorrah — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 9: The Fullness of Revelation — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube

681– Twelfth Council of Toledo: King Erwig of the Visigoths initiates a council in which he implements diverse measures against the Jewish people in Spain.
1349– The Jewish population of Basel, believed by the residents to be the cause of the ongoing Black Death, are rounded up and incinerated.
1431– The trial of Joan of Arc begins in Rouen.
1787 – The nationally known image of the Black Nazarene in the Philippines was transferred from what is now Rizal Park to its present shrine in the minor basilica of Quiapo Church. This is annually commemorated through its Traslación (solemn transfer) in the streets of Manila and is attended by millions of devotees.
1788 – Connecticut becomes the fifth state to ratify the United States Constitution.
1793 – Jean-Pierre Blanchard becomes the first person to fly in a balloon in the United States.
1816 – Humphry Davy tests his safety lamp for miners at Hebburn Colliery.
1839 – The French Academy of Sciences announces the Daguerreotype photography process.
1861 – Mississippi becomes the second state to secede from the Union before the outbreak of the American Civil War.
1902-Josemaría Escrivá (January 9, 1902 – June 26, 1975) founder of Opu Di is born.
1909– The Rosary Priest Fr. Patrick Peyton (January 9, 1909 – June 3, 1992) founder of Family Rosary Crusade and Family Theater is born.
1916 – World War I: The Battle of Gallipoli concludes with an Ottoman Empire victory when the last Allied forces are evacuated from the peninsula.
1964 – Martyrs’ Day: Several Panamanian youths try to raise the Panamanian flag in the U.S.-controlled Panama Canal Zone, leading to fighting between U.S. military and Panamanian civilians.
1991 – Representatives from the United States and Iraq meet at the Geneva Peace Conference to try to find a peaceful resolution to the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait.
2007-The first modern smartphone, is released.

Jeremy McLellan@JeremyMcLellan (Jan 9, 2023) People make Confession sound oppressive but I find it liberating in its simplicity. You list your sins and you’re absolved. It’s boring because your sins are boring. If you want someone to think your sins are interesting go see a therapist.

Tuesday January 10, 2023

St. Nicanor and St. William of Bourges

Day 10: Hagar and Ishmael — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 10: The Apostolic Tradition — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube

236– Pope Fabian succeeds Anterus to become the twentieth pope of Rome.
1646-St. Isaac Jogues, S.J. ( January 10, 1607 – October 18, 1646) is born.
1812– The first steamboat on the Ohio River or the Mississippi River arrives in New Orleans, 82 days after departing from Pittsburgh.
1861– American Civil War: Florida becomes the third state to secede from the Union.
1927– Fritz Lang‘s futuristic film Metropolis is released in Germany.
1984– Holy See–United States relations: The United States and Holy See (Vatican City) re-establish full diplomatic relations after almost 117 years, overturning the United States Congress‘s 1867 ban on public funding for such a diplomatic envoy.
**1951-**Writer Sinclair Lewis, (February 7, 1885 – January 10, 1951) dies.
1990– Time Warner is formed by the merger of Time Inc. and Warner Communications.
2019– A 13-year-old American girl, Jayme Closs, is found alive in Gordon, Wisconsin, having been kidnapped 88 days earlier from her parents’ home whilst they were murdered.
2023- Australian Cardinal George Pell AC ( June 8, 1941 – January 10, 2023) dies.
2023 80th Golden Globes takes place.

Some of the Winners include

The Fabelmans-Best Motion Picture Drama/Best Director
The Banshees of Inisherin-Best Motion Picture/Actor Musical or Comedy/Best Screenplay
Austin Butler – Elvis as Elvis Presley Best Actor
Wednesday- Nominated (But Didn’t Win) Musical or Comedy Television

Owl! at the Library @SketchesbyBoze (Jan 10, 2023): every novel should include an appendix with sketches of all )the flora and fauna mentioned in the book so that you can flip to the back and go, “oh, that’s a carnelian… that’s what a rhododendron looks like… that’s dogwood and hibiscus”. They should also include a map showing the distribution of trees and flowers so that you can pretend you’re walking through that setting and looking at the trees and flowers.

Wednesday January 11, 2023

St. Hyginius and St. Alexander

Day 11: The Sacrifice of Isaac — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 11: Sources of Divine Revelation — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube

Jeanne F. Mancini@jeannemfl (Jan 11, 2023)Dear praying friends … I just learned of a young woman who is pregnant and planning to get an abortion in the weeks ahead. Please pray that she might have the grace and strength to choose life, thank you

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1569 – First recorded lottery in England.
1787 – William Herschel discovers Titania and Oberon, two moons of Uranus.
1805 – The Michigan Territory is created.
1861 – American Civil War: Alabama secedes from the United States.
1908 – Grand Canyon National Monument is created.
1927 – Louis B. Mayer, head of film studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), announces the creation of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, at a banquet in Los Angeles, California.
1935 – Amelia Earhart becomes the first person to fly solo from Hawaii to California.
1961 – Throgs Neck Bridge over the East River, linking New York City‘s boroughs of The Bronx and Queens, opens to road traffic.
1964 – Surgeon General of the United States Dr. Luther Terry, M.D., publishes the landmark report Smoking and Health: Report of the Advisory Committee to the Surgeon General of the United States saying that smoking may be hazardous to health, sparking national and worldwide anti-smoking efforts.
1972 – East Pakistan renames itself Bangladesh.
1973 – Major League Baseball owners vote in approval of the American League adopting the designated hitter position.
1994 – The Irish Government announces the end of a 15-year broadcasting ban on the IRA and its political arm Sinn Féin.
2021-Pope Francis changes Catholic Church law in which women are explicitly allowed as lectors, altar servers.

Fr. Dwight Longenecker@dlongenecker1 (Jan 11, 2023) Today I was busy and irritated that I was called to hospital to administer last rites. May God forgive me. I was blessed to meet a young Guatemalan in his twenties who was dying and who received my ministry with simple faith, humility and gratitude. My eyes are leaking.

The Deacon’s Bench@DeaconGregK (Jan 11,2023)Replying to @dlongenecker1

I’m learning at this late moment in my life that some of the greatest graces come from surrender — going where God leads, even if we don’t want to go there, don’t understand why and wish we could head in another direction.

Thursday January 12, 2023

St. Benedict Biscop and St. Marguerite Bourgeoys

A green comet will appear in the night sky for the first time in -

Day 12: Isaac and Rebekah — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 12: Receiving Dogmas — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube

1915 – The United States House of Representatives rejects a proposal to require states to give women the right to vote.
1932 – Hattie Wyatt Caraway of Arkansas is the first woman elected to the U.S. Senate, to fill a vacancy cause by the death of her husband. She is reelected in 1932 and 1938.
1957-Pixar Director John Lasseter is born.
1966 – Lyndon B. Johnson states that the United States should stay in South Vietnam until Communist aggression there is ended.
1967 – Dr. James Bedford becomes the first person to be cryonically preserved with intent of future resuscitation.
1969 – The New York Jets of the American Football League defeat the Baltimore Colts of the National Football League to win Super Bowl III in what is considered to be one of the greatest upsets in sports history.
1998 – Nineteen European nations agree to forbid human cloning.
2001 – Downtown Disney opens to the public as part of the Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, California.
2004 – The world’s largest ocean liner, RMS Queen Mary 2, makes its maiden voyage.
2021-The CIA releases UFO ‘Black Vault’ documents early and how to see them online.
2023-Lisa Marie Presley (February 1, 1968 – January 12, 2023) dies. She was the only child of singer and actor Elvis Presley and actress Priscilla Presley, as well as the sole heir to her father’s estate.
2023-News organizations all over the world are repeating a strange report out of Russia this week: that they were able to shoot down a UFO. Russia Apparently Shot Down a UFO (msn.com)
2023- A recently discovered comet will soon make an appearance in the night sky for the first time in 50,000 years.

Discovered on March 2, 2022 by astronomers using the Zwicky Transient Facility’s wide-field survey camera at the Palomar Observatory in San Diego County, California, the comet will make its closest approach to the sun on January 12, according to
NASA. A green comet will appear in the night sky for the first time in 50,000 years | CNN

Kyle Haden, OFM, PhD. ⚡️@JacksSon1980 (January 12, 2023) Bimonthly reminder: 99% of the time, politicians and celebrities do not read your replies and comments. It is merely an act of catharsis, and will not change anything but your emotions.

Jolz �@Jolz_Aust (January 12, 2023) If only we lived every day like it were the last day of vacation. Making the most of every moment.

Bed making has always seemed foolish to me – an irrational habit born of a bourgeois fear that “guests” might show up at any moment and demand to see your bedroom. This fear is foolish since any social embarrassment over an unmade bed spied upon by a boorish neighbor can easily be dispelled with a simple comment: “Pardon the mess, but the kids were clamoring for me to read them more Hildegard of Bingen this morning.”

You know what else seems foolish to me? Radical Traditionalism. How is that for a segue to my main topic?

Larry Chapp, Apologetics and Evangelization Part One: Vatican II and Why Radical Traditionalism is a Dead End | Gaudium et Spes 22

Friday January 13, 2023

Day 13: Esau Sells His Birthright — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 13: The Single Deposit of Faith — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube

Song of the Week

Owl City- Kelly TIme

1888 – The National Geographic Society is founded in Washington, D.C.
1891-September 25-Blessed Fr. Miguel Pro, (born January 13, 1891 – executed November 23, 1927) is beatified in Rome. He died during the Cristero War.
1910 – The first public radio broadcast takes place; a live performance of the operas Cavalleria rusticana and Pagliacci is sent out over the airwaves from the Metropolitan Opera House in New York.
1920 – The Reichstag Bloodbath of January 13, 1920, the bloodiest demonstration in German history.
1935 – A plebiscite in Saarland shows that 90.3% of those voting wish to join Nazi Germany.
1939-Siegfried Fischbacher (June 13, 1939 – January 13, 2021) dies.
1942 – Henry Ford patents a soybean car, which is 30% lighter than a regular car.
1942 – World War II: First use of an aircraft ejection seat by a German test pilot in a Heinkel He 280 jet fighter.
1947-January 2020, Charlene Richard (January 13, 1947 – August 11, 1959) The Little Cajun Saint becomes a servant of God.
1957 January 13– Wham-O Company produces the first Frisbee.
1964 – In Manchester, New Hampshire, fourteen-year-old Pamela Mason is murdered. Edward Coolidge is tried and convicted of the crime, but the conviction is set aside by the landmark Fourth Amendment case Coolidge v. New Hampshire (1971).
1968 – Johnny Cash performs live at Folsom State Prison.
1998 – Alfredo Ormando sets himself on fire in St. Peter’s Square, protesting against homophobia.
2020 – The Thai Ministry of Public Health confirms the first case of COVID-19 outside China.
2021 – Outgoing U.S. President Donald Trump is impeached for a second time on a charge of incitement of insurrection following the January 6 United States Capitol attack one week prior.
2023- American daredevil and son of stunt performer Evel Knievel, Kaptain Robbie Knievel (May 7, 1962 – January 13, 2023) dies.

**Mike Lewis@mfjlewis (**Jan 14,2023)Whilst eating lunch and listening to@JimmyAkin3000 discuss Egyptian mummies on the most recent @mys_world podcast, the thought suddenly came to me that Ramen is mummified noodles brought back to life ��.

Pope Francis@Pontifex (January 13, 2023) We need daily #prayer, time dedicated to God, so He can enter into our time. We need frequent moments in which we open our hearts to Him so He can daily pour out his love on us and nourish our faith.

Saturday January 14, 2023

Day 14: Isaac Blesses Jacob — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 14: The Eternal Word of God — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube

I can buy books. Unfortunately, I can’t buy time to read and to understand them or to apply them fully to my life.- Mark Brumley (Jan 14, 2023 on FB)

Mark Brumley@mabrumley: (January 14, 2023) The rapidly dwindling time it takes to ignore so many Catholic commentators on Twitter. I used to read them to learn. Then simply to know what they say. Now I find them so unreliable, uninteresting, uninformed & petty I pay little attention. I’m sure they ignore me too. Unity. Of course “so many” doesn’t = everyone.

1899-Humphrey Bogart, (December 25, 1899 – January 14, 1957) dies.
1939 – Norway claims Queen Maud Land in Antarctica.
1952 – NBC‘s long-running morning news program Today debuts, with host Dave Garroway.
1973 – Elvis Presley‘s concert Aloha from Hawaii is broadcast live via satellite, and sets the record as the most watched broadcast by an individual entertainer in television history.
2004 – The national flag of the Republic of Georgia, the so-called “five cross flag“, is restored to official use after a hiatus of some 500 years.
2010 – Yemen declares an open war against the terrorist group al-Qaeda.
2023-CNN — A 9-year-old aspiring paleontologist found the find of a lifetime on Christmas morning: a massive 5-inch tooth from a prehistoric megalodon.

Dismas Sayre@dismasop (January 14, 2023) In the Middle Ages, before currency became common once again, the faithful would donate farm goods, meats, etc, to help the priest… I wouldn’t necessarily be against seeing a couple of live chickens or dozen eggs in the collection basket at this point.

Sunday January 15, 2023

1759 – The British Museum opens to the public.
1870 – A political cartoon for the first time symbolizes the Democratic Party with a donkey (“A Live Jackass Kicking a Dead Lion” by Thomas Nast for Harper’s Weekly).
1889 – The Coca-Cola Company, then known as the Pemberton Medicine Company, is incorporated in Atlanta.
1892 – James Naismith publishes the rules of basketball.
1908 – The Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority becomes the first Greek-letter organization founded and established by African American college women.
1920-Cardinal John Joseph O’Connor (January 15, 1920 – May 3, 2000) is born.
1947 – The Black Dahlia murder: The dismembered corpse of Elizabeth Short was found in Los Angeles.
1949 – Chinese Civil War: The Communist forces take over Tianjin from the Nationalist government.
1967 – The first Super Bowl is played in Los Angeles. The Green Bay Packers defeat the Kansas City Chiefs 35–10.
1969 – The Soviet Union launches Soyuz 5.
1970 – Muammar Gaddafi is proclaimed premier of Libya.
1973 – Vietnam War: Citing progress in peace negotiations, President Richard Nixon announces the suspension of offensive action in North Vietnam.
1976 – Gerald Ford‘s would-be assassin, Sara Jane Moore, is sentenced to life in prison.
1981 – Pope John Paul II receives a delegation from the Polish trade union Solidarity at the Vatican led by Lech Wałęsa.
1991 – The United Nations deadline for the withdrawal of Iraqi forces from occupied Kuwait expires, preparing the way for the start of Operation Desert Storm.
2001 – Wikipedia, a free wiki content encyclopedia, goes online.
2022 – The Hunga Tonga-Hunga Haʻapai volcano erupts, cutting off communications with Tonga and causing a tsunami across the Pacific.
2023- Fr. Isaac Achi was shot in the chest as bandits shouted jihadi slogans, according to the priest’s parochial vicar, who survived the attack: pillarcatholic.com

To Millennity and Beyond@Drake_OMalfoy(January 15,2023) Physically I’m at work. Mentally I’m at the Quidditch World Cup. Ireland won, but Krum caught the snitch.

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