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LWIL # 13 April Fools and Passion Palms

LWIL # 13 April Fools and Passion Palms

Last updated on: April 3, 2023 at 6:56 am by Mark Wilson

LWIL # 13 April Fools and Passion Palms 2023-04-03T06:56:52-05:00 Mark Wilson

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Once again we come to the foolish start of April and the beginning of Holy Week.

And History highlighted the lives of

Typhoid Mary
Maria Von Trapp who was portrayed by Julie Andrews in The Sound of Music.
The Knights of Columbus.
Alaska and Russia.
Hans Christian Andersen.
Pope John Paul II
Pope Francis who went to the hospital.

There was also a possible Eucharistic miracle and the Doctrine of Discovery was abolished.

Why the polar bear pic?

It goes with the Alaska/Russia story and just looked cool.

Without further ado here is is…

What Happen Last Week and Year in Life.

Monday March 27, 2023

Day 86: The Real Presence of God — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 86: God’s Plan of Salvation — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube

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

1309 – Pope Clement V imposes excommunication and interdiction on Venice, and a general prohibition of all commercial intercourse with Venice, which had seized on Ferrara, a papal fiefdom.
1329 – Pope John XXII issues his In Agro Dominico condemning some writings of Meister Eckhart as heretical.
1513 – Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de León reaches the northern end of The Bahamas on his first voyage to Florida.
1866 – President of the United States of America Andrew Johnson vetoes the Civil Rights Act of 1866. His veto is overridden by Congress and the bill passes into law on April 9.
1871 – The first international rugby football match, when Scotland defeats England in Edinburgh at Raeburn Place.
1915 – Typhoid Mary, the first healthy carrier of disease ever identified in the United States, is put in quarantine for the second time, where she would remain for the rest of her life.
2016 – A suicide blast in Gulshan-e-Iqbal Park, Lahore claims over 70 lives and leaves almost 300 others injured. The target of the bombing are Christians celebrating Easter.
2020 – North Macedonia becomes the 30th member of NATO.
2023-Nashville Christian school shooting leaves 3 children, 3 adults dead
2023-Kansas boy donates tonsils to human remains detection dogs for training

Quote of the Day

Science girl@gunsnrosesgirl3 (Mar 27, 2023) In South America there is a place where 275 waterfalls cascade down together, the largest waterfall system in the world About 13,000 cubic metres per second pours over its edges, that’s 5 Olympic sized pools every single second! This is Iguazu Falls

Tuesday March 28, 2023

Day 87: God Keeps His Promises — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 87: Christ’s Life as Offering — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube

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

1912: In Washington, D.C., Helen Taft, wife of President William Taft, and the Viscountess Chinda, wife of the Japanese ambassador, plant two Yoshino cherry trees on the northern bank of the Potomac River, near the Jefferson Memorial. The event was held in celebration of a gift, by the Japanese government, of 3,020 cherry trees to the U.S. government.
1958-Khrushchev becomes Soviet premier.
1987-Baroness Maria Augusta von Trapp DHS (January 26, 1905 – March 28, 1987) dies. She was the stepmother and matriarch of the Trapp Family Singers. She wrote The Story of the Trapp Family Singers, which was published in 1949 and was the inspiration for the 1956 West German film The Trapp Family, which in turn inspired the 1959 Broadway musical The Sound of Music and its 1965 film version.
1990 – United States President George H. W. Bush posthumously awards Jesse Owens the Congressional Gold Medal.
2023-Priest reports possible eucharistic miracle at Connecticut church | Catholic News Agency
Quote of the Day

Steven D. Greydanus@DecentFilms (March 30, 2023) The trailer for Pixar’s Elemental looks like an earnest bid for vintage Pixar conceptual daring—a “What if the four elements had feelings?” riff on everything from Toy Story to Inside Out—with an exhausted plot/thematic framework of overcoming prejudice and parental expectations.

Wednesday March 29 , 2023

Day 88: Joshua’s Last Words to Israel — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 88: Christ’s Definitive Sacrifice — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube

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

1867 – Queen Victoria gives Royal Assent to the British North America Act which establishes Canada on July 1.
1882 – The Knights of Columbus is established.
1961 – The Twenty-third Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, allowing residents of Washington, D.C., to vote in presidential elections.
1964-Group of Black and White Worshipers Arrested for Attending Easter Services at Segregated Churches in Jackson, Mississippi
1974 – NASA‘s Mariner 10 becomes the first space probe to fly by Mercury.
2014 – The first same-sex marriages in England and Wales are performed.
2023-Pope Francis has been admitted to the Gemelli Hospital in Rome for “some days” after being diagnosed with a respiratory infection.
2023-Pope prays for migrants killed in Mexican migrant camp blaze – Vatican News

2023

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Quote of the Day

Mark Brumley@mabrumley (March 29, 2023) My wife said once: you don’t really think you can have sophisticated, nuanced discussions on Twitter, do you? Who me? I replied. Where’d you ever get that idea, I asked, tweeting number 150 in a series of rebuttals to the Latest Error on Twitter.

Thursday March 30, 2023

Day 89: Israel’s Cycle of Disobedience — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 89: Jesus Christ Was Buried — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube

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

1818 – Physicist Augustin Fresnel reads a memoir on optical rotation to the French Academy of Sciences, reporting that when polarized light is “depolarized” by a Fresnel rhomb, its properties are preserved in any subsequent passage through an optically-rotating crystal or liquid.
1822 – The Florida Territory is created in the United States.
1867 – Alaska is purchased from Russia for $7.2 million, about two cents/acre ($4.19/km2), by United States Secretary of State William H. Seward.
1870 – Texas is readmitted to the United States Congress following Reconstruction.
1870 15th Amendment adopted
1955- James Wong Howe becomes first Asian American to win an Academy Award. He got the Oscar for Best Cinematography for The Rose Tattoo, starring Anna Magnani and Burt Lancaster.
1962 — Edward J. Dwight Jr. became the first African-American candidate for astronaut training.
1981 – U.S. President Ronald Reagan is shot in the chest outside a Washington, D.C., hotel by John Hinckley Jr.; three others are wounded in the same incident.
2019 – Pope Francis visits Morocco.
2023 – Donald Trump is indicted by a New York City grand jury.
2023-Vatican: ‘Doctrine of discovery’ is not Catholic teaching | Catholic News Agency
2023-Update: Pope Francis rested well, continuing treatment in hospital, Vatican says | Catholic News Agency

Quote of the Day

James Breakwell, Exploding Unicorn@XplodingUnicorn: (March 30, 2021)
What other people’s kids say when sleeping in bunk beds: “I call top bunk!”

What my kids say: “It’s over, Anakin! I have the high ground.”

Father Jim Sichko@JimSichko (March 30, 2023) Jesus picked a symbol that emphasized humility and lowliness instead of military strength. That fact should inform how we celebrate and remember his entry into Jerusalem. Of course, it would be impractical for every church across the globe to find a donkey to drag into and out of its sanctuary. But we can spend Palm Sunday reflecting on what it means to follow a king who rejected the way of violence.
As we look to the donkey, not the palm, what practices might it inspire? What aspects of American Christian culture might it critique?

Friday March 31, 2023

Day 90: Ruth and Boaz — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 90: Christ Descended into Hell — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube

Song of the Week

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

1146 – Bernard of Clairvaux preaches his famous sermon in a field at Vézelay, urging the necessity of a Second Crusade. Louis VII is present, and joins the Crusade.
1492 – Queen Isabella of Castile issues the Alhambra Decree, ordering her 150,000 Jewish and Muslim subjects to convert to Christianity or face expulsion.
1774 – American Revolution: The Kingdom of Great Britain orders the port of Boston, Massachusetts closed pursuant to the Boston Port Act.
1889 – The Eiffel Tower is officially opened.
1918 – Daylight saving time goes into effect in the United States for the first time.
1930 – The Motion Picture Production Code is instituted, imposing strict guidelines on the treatment of sex, crime, religion and violence in film, in the U.S., for the next thirty-eight years.
1959 – The 14th Dalai Lama, crosses the border into India and is granted political asylum.
2016 – NASA astronaut Scott Kelly and Roscosmos cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko return to Earth after a yearlong mission at the International Space Station.
Quote of the Day

James Breakwell, Exploding Unicorn@XplodingUnicorn (Mar 31, 2023)

My pro parenting move is flipping over the couch cushion to hide a stain only to reveal an even bigger stain.

Fr. Casey, OFM@caseyofm (Mar 31,2023)

I just bought a hammock.

We’ll see if this turns out to be the best decision of the year or a waste of $35.

There’s nothing in between.

Saturday April 1, 2023

April Fools Day

Day 91: Gideon’s Story — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 91: Christ Rose from the Dead — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube

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

**1700-**English pranksters begin popularizing the annual tradition of April Fools’ Day by playing practical jokes on each other.
1789 – In New York City, the United States House of Representatives achieves its first quorum and elects Frederick Muhlenberg of Pennsylvania as its first Speaker.
1833 – The Convention of 1833, a political gathering of settlers in Mexican Texas to help draft a series of petitions to the Mexican government, begins in San Felipe de Austin.
1997 – Comet Hale–Bopp is seen passing at perihelion.
Christo Jivkov Dies: ‘The Passion Of The Christ’ Star Was 48 – Deadline
2023-Donald Trump calls the Pope to wish him well and to ask him to ask Catholic president Joe Biden to pardon him for all his alleged crimes.

Quote of the Day

Fr. Casey, OFM@caseyofm (Apil 1, 2023)
As we enter Holy Week, remember that liturgy is not simply a dramatic remembrance of the past, as if we were going to a play.

It is an act of thanksgiving, in the here and now, in which we acknowledge and offer our own sacrifices in response to the Pascal Mystery alive today.

Sunday April 2, 2023

PALM SUNDAY OF THE PASSION OF THE LORD

Holy Week Begins

Day 92: Jephthah’s Vow — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 92: The Man of Heaven — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube

Thy Geekdom Come��@ThyGeekdomCome (April 2,2023)
Awfully clever of Pope Francis to have “chest pains” and a “respiratory illness” in order to infiltrate a hospital, baptize babies, fake out the rad trads with false hope, and get released on April Fools’ Day.

Really, really epic prank.

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

1805-Hans Christian Andersen is born.

2005- John Paul II, history’s most well-traveled pope and the first non-Italian to hold the position since the 16th century, dies at his home in the Vatican. Six days later, two million people packed Vatican City for his funeral, said to be one of the biggest in history.

2023

Desmond N. Doulatram@Akinmeto (April 2, 2023) Vatican formally denounces 15th-century ‘Doctrine of Discovery,’ used to justify colonizing Indigenous peoples

Vatican formally denounces 15th-century ‘Doctrine of Discovery,’ used to justify colonizing Indigenous peoples | America Magazine

The sufferings of Jesus were many, and whenever we listen to the account of the Passion, they pierce our hearts. There were sufferings of the body: we think of the slaps and beatings, flogging and the crowning with thorns, and in the end, the cruelty of the crucifixion. There were also sufferings of the soul: the betrayal of Judas, the denials of Peter, the condemnation of the religious and civil authorities, the mockery of the guards, the jeering at the foot of the cross, the rejection of the crowd, utter failure and the flight of the disciples.

Yet, amid all these sorrows, Jesus remained certain of one thing: the closeness of the Father. Now, however, the unthinkable has taken place. Before dying, he cries out: “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” Jesus’ abandonment.
Full text of Pope Francis’ homily for Palm Sunday 2023 | Catholic News Agency

Quote of the Day

Rich Villodas@richvillodas (April 2, 2023)

After shouts of Hosanna, Jesus enters the temple & clears out those who have used religion to exploit people.

He then welcomes the blind & lame in the temple & heals them.

Holy Week reminds us that Jesus has a furious & passionate love for those the world has little regard for.

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