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LWIL # 15- Have Mercy On Us and All History

LWIL # 15- Have Mercy On Us and All History

Last updated on: April 17, 2023 at 12:00 am by Mark Wilson

LWIL # 15- Have Mercy On Us and All History 2023-04-16T22:32:31-05:00 Mark Wilson

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Sometimes I wish this particular weekly column was written better.

But sometimes history is like that also.
You wish people lived better history.
So here is….

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

Have Mercy on Us and All History

A CHANCE TO DO A WORK OF JUSTICE AND MERCY

Karine Omry@KarineOmry (April 14, 2023) ·CALL TO ACTION!

#IvanCantu is scheduled to be executed by the state of TX on April 26. Evidence shows he is innocent. Pls write an email to the BPP urging them to recommend clemency: [email protected] Talking points: https://tcadp.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/TCADP-Execution-Alert-for-Ivan-Cantu.pdf… #StopExecutionsTexas

Monday April 10, 2023

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

837 – Halley’s Comet makes its closest approach to Earth at a distance equal to 0.0342 AU (5.1 million kilometres/3.2 million miles).
1710 – The Statute of Anne, the first law regulating copyright, comes into force in Great Britain.
1858 – After the original Big Ben, a 14.5 tonnes (32,000 lb) bell for the Palace of Westminster, had cracked during testing, it is recast into the current 13.76 tonnes (30,300 lb) bell by Whitechapel Bell Foundry.
1865 – American Civil War: A day after his surrender to Union forces, Confederate General Robert E. Lee addresses his troops for the last time.
1866 – The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) is founded in New York City by Henry Bergh.
1872 – The first Arbor Day is celebrated in Nebraska.
1887 – On Easter Sunday, Pope Leo XIII authorizes the establishment of the Catholic University of America.
1925 – The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is first published in New York City, by Charles Scribner’s Sons.
1939 – Alcoholics Anonymous, A.A.’s “Big Book”, is first published.
1970 – Paul McCartney announces that he is leaving The Beatles for personal and professional reasons.
1971 – Ping-pong diplomacy: In an attempt to thaw relations with the United States, China hosts the U.S. table tennis team for a week-long visit.
2023-A mass shooting occurred at the Old National Bank in Louisville, Kentucky, United States. Five people were killed, and eight others were injured, including two responding police officers. The shooter, 25-year-old employee Connor James Sturgeon, livestreamed the shooting on Instagram and was fatally shot by other officers.

Father Ed: The Story of Bill W’s Spiritual Sponsor by Dawn Eden Goldstein Father Ed is the first biography of Father Edward Dowling, SJ, whose guidance transformed Alcoholics Anonymous founder Bill Wilson’s life and deepened the spirituality of the twelve-step movement.

Day 100: This Is My Body — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 100: God’s Word and Spirit — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube

Quote of the Day

Joshua See ▪︎ Voice Actor@shinkyuuseninVO (April 10, 2023) In secular circles, I’m the most Catholic in the room, in Catholic circles. I’m the least Catholic in the room. It is such an interesting dichotomy that I have yet to unpack personally. Religious trauma is a bitch and a half. Still a Catholic, just a little beaten and battered.

Tuesday April 11, 2023

Day 101: Signs and Wonders — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 101: Expecting the Messiah — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube

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

1814 – The Treaty of Fontainebleau ends the War of the Sixth Coalition against Napoleon Bonaparte, and forces him to abdicate unconditionally for the first time.
1945- The U.S. army liberates Buchenwald concentration camp
1963 – Pope John XXIII issues Pacem in terris, the first encyclical addressed to all Christians instead of only Catholics, and which described the conditions for world peace in human terms.
1968 – President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1968, prohibiting discrimination in the sale, rental, and financing of housing.
1968 – Assassination attempt on Rudi Dutschke, leader of the German student movement.
1970 – Apollo Program: Apollo 13 is launched.
1976 – The Apple I is created.
2023–Missing Woman Found Alive Inside Jeep Submerged in Texas Lake: Police (people.com)
Quote of the Day

Mark Sumner@Devilstower (April 12, 2023) If you are against public libraries, you are on Team Evil. You might as well get out the black uniform and put on the skull pins.

Wednesday April 12, 2023

Day 102: The Death of Lazarus — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 102: The Holy Spirit’s Mission — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube

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

1633-Galileo is accused of heresy
1861 – American Civil War: Battle of Fort Sumter. The war begins with Confederate forces firing on Fort Sumter, in the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina.
1900 – One day after its enactment by the Congress, President William McKinley signs the Foraker Act into law, giving Puerto Rico limited self-rule.
1961-Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin becomes the first man in space
1963-Martin Luther King Jr. is jailed; writes “Letter from a Birmingham Jail”
1990 – Jim Gary‘s “Twentieth Century Dinosaurs” exhibition opens at the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C. He is the only sculptor ever invited to present a solo exhibition there.
1992 – The Euro Disney Resort officially opens with its theme park Euro Disneyland; the resort and its park’s name are subsequently changed to Disneyland Paris.
1999 – United States President Bill Clinton is cited for contempt of court for giving “intentionally false statements” in a civil lawsuit; he is later fined and disbarred.
2023-Over 50,000 massacred in Nigeria for being Christian in the last 14 years, report says (oursundayvisitor.com)
Quote of the Day

Catholic Sat@CatholicSat (April 12, 2023) Pope Francis at his General Audience this morning: “One does not proclaim the Gospel standing still, locked in an office at ones desk or computer, arguing like keyboard warriors, replacing the creativity of the proclamation with copy and paste ideas taken from here and there”

SDG May or May Not Be Notable@DecentFilms (Apr 12,2023) One of the perks of Lent for me is that, since my kids give up video games on the Wii except on Sundays, all week long the TV HDMI cable is plugged into the Blu-Ray player, as God intended. Now that it’s Easter season, we’re back to switching back and forth several times a week.

Thursday April 13, 2023

Day 103: Judas’ Secrecy — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 103: The Power of Pentecost — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube

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

1204 – Constantinople falls to the Crusaders of the Fourth Crusade, temporarily ending the Byzantine Empire
1742 – George Frideric Handel‘s oratorio Messiah makes its world premiere in Dublin, Ireland.[6]
1829 – The Roman Catholic Relief Act 1829 gives Roman Catholics in the United Kingdom the right to vote and to sit in Parliament
1870 – The New York City Metropolitan Museum of Art is founded.[12]
1873 – The Colfax massacre: More than 60 to 150 black men are murdered in Colfax, Louisiana, while surrendering to a mob of former Confederate soldiers and members of the Ku Klux Klan.
1943 – The Jefferson Memorial is dedicated in Washington, D.C., on the 200th anniversary of President Thomas Jefferson‘s birth.
1976 – The United States Treasury Department reintroduces the two-dollar bill as a Federal Reserve Note on Thomas Jefferson‘s 233rd birthday as part of the United States Bicentennial celebration.

Quote of the Day

Mary Pezzulo@mary_pezzulo (April 14, 2023) Today’s fun fact about the Lives of the Saints: Saint Alphonsus Liguori’s full name Alphonsus Mary Anthony John Cosmas Damian Michael Gaspard de’ Liguori. That’s something you know now.

Mark Brumley@mabrumley (April 14, 2023) Beware of attributing to “the People of God” the ideas and opinions of a small minority of people selected, summarized, and synthesized by an elaborate outcome-oriented process. Beware of equating popular opinion with mature reflection on God’s Word and faithful Christian living.

Friday April 14, 2023

Day 104: The Priestly Prayer of Jesus — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 104: The Holy Spirit and the Church — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube

Song of the Week

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

1828-Webster’s American Dictionary of the English Language is printed
1865 – U.S. President Abraham Lincoln is shot in Ford’s Theatre by John Wilkes Booth; Lincoln dies the following day.[12]
1865 – William H. Seward, the U.S. Secretary of State, and his family are attacked at home by Lewis Powell.
1910-Taft becomes first U.S. president to throw out first pitch at MLB game
1969-Katharine Hepburn and Barbra Streisand tie for Best Actress Oscar
2022 – Russian invasion of Ukraine: The Russian warship Moskva sinks.
2023-The Inside Story of the 1983 Clock Heist at Jerusalem’s Museum for Islamic Art | History | Smithsonian Magazine

Quote of the Day

SDG May or May Not Be Notable@DecentFilms ·(Apr 14, 2023) The number of reviews of The Pope’s Exorcist credulously repeating some form of the bogus billing of the real Fr. Amorth—an exorcist of the Diocese in Rome with no Vatican office—as “chief exorcist of the Vatican” or “the pope’s designated exorcist” is slowly driving me insane

Saturday April 15, 2023

Day 105: It Is Finished — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 105: Christ’s Church and its Mission — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube

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

769 – The Lateran Council ends by condemning the Council of Hieria and anathematizing its iconoclastic rulings.
1755 – Samuel Johnson‘s A Dictionary of the English Language is published in London.
1861 – President Abraham Lincoln calls for 75,000 Volunteers to quell the insurrection that soon became the American Civil War.[10]
1865 – President Abraham Lincoln dies after being shot the previous evening by actor John Wilkes Booth.[11] Three hours later, Vice President Andrew Johnson is sworn in as President.[12]
1892 – The General Electric Company is formed.
1912 – The British passenger liner RMS Titanic sinks in the North Atlantic at 2:20 a.m., two hours and forty minutes after hitting an iceberg. Only 710 of 2,224 passengers and crew on board survive.
1923 – Insulin becomes generally available for use by people with diabetes.
1947 – Jackie Robinson debuts for the Brooklyn Dodgers, breaking baseball’s color line.
1955 – McDonald’s restaurant dates its founding to the opening of a franchised restaurant by Ray Kroc, in Des Plaines, Illinois.
Quote of the Day

Penitent Knight@knightpenitent (April 15, 2023) Grant me, O Lord my God, a mind to know you, a heart to seek you, wisdom to find you, conduct pleasing to you, faithful perseverance in waiting for you, and a hope of finally embracing you. Amen. -St Thomas Aquinas

Eric M Hamilton �@ericmhamilton (April 15, 2023) Myth is constantly being formed right now before our very eyes as we’re living history. It is the difference between the events themselves and the interpretation of those events into a broader story that we or others believe brings some sort of insight into the human condition.

Sunday April 16, 2023

DIvine Mercy Sunday

Day 106: Saul Is Chosen — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 106: Symbols of the Church — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube

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

1908 – Natural Bridges National Monument is established in Utah.
1910 – The oldest existing indoor ice hockey arena still used for the sport in the 21st century, Boston Arena, opens for the first time.
1963 – Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. pens his Letter from Birmingham Jail while incarcerated in Birmingham, Alabama for protesting against segregation.
1972 – Apollo program: The launch of Apollo 16 from Cape Canaveral, Florida.
2012 – The Pulitzer Prize winners were announced, it was the first time since 1977 that no book won the Fiction Prize.

Quote of the Day

Fr. Goyo@FrGoyo (April 16, 2023) I am who I am today because of the Mercy of God.

The mercy of God will always be there, for free. The prodigal son took that mercy and came back home. So if you are thinking about your journey to God, don’t hesitate. He is waiting and He wants to forgive you.

#DivineMercy

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