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New Papal Synotal Environment LWIL # 40

New Papal Synotal Environment LWIL # 40

Last updated on: November 19, 2023 at 11:12 am by Mark Wilson

New Papal Synotal Environment LWIL # 40 2023-11-19T11:12:23-05:00 Mark Wilson

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The church has been very active in the last week. New Synod, New Writing from the Pope, Anniversary from when St. JP2 visited the white house. Relive and rediscovery the events of history and the present as you read about ….

What Happen Last Week and Year in Life.

DAILY DEFENSE PODCAST w JIMMY AKIN Justification in James 2 | Catholic Answers Podcasts

Monday October 2, 2023

The Holy Guardian Angels

A Catholic Adventurer@forthequeenbvm (Oct 2, 2023)Your #GuardianAngel was not forced, but was asked, and CHOSE to protect you. The first decision your #angel made was to love you, from before time began. How wonderful is that? #CatholicTwitter

Day 275: Esther Becomes Queen — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 275: Superstition, Idolatry, and Magic — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube

DAILY DEFENSE PODCAST w JIMMY AKIN Between Two Robbers? | Catholic Answers Podcasts

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

1789 – The United States Bill of Rights is sent to the various States for ratification
1870 – By plebiscite, the citizens of the Papal States accept annexation by the Kingdom of Italy.
1928 – The “Prelature of the Holy Cross and the Work of God”, commonly known as Opus Dei, is founded.
1967 – Thurgood Marshall is sworn in as the first African-American justice of the United States Supreme Court.
1980 – Michael Myers becomes the first member of either chamber of Congress to be expelled since the Civil War.
2006 – Five Amish girls are murdered in a shooting at a school in Pennsylvania, United States
2023–Cardinals ask Pope Francis to answer synod ‘dubia’

Quote of the Day

Traci Rhoades@tracesoffaith (Oct 2, 2023) I don’t think I’m ever gonna call this app anything but Twitter. Does that make me old?

Fr. Joseph Krupp@Joeinblack (Oct 2, 2023) After Mom died, I asked dad if he wanted to move into the rectory with me, and he agreed. His first night in the rectory, the emergency line rang at 2:30 AM. I jumped out of bed and threw my Cassock on, got the dog ready and opened my bedroom door to find dad standing there with his rosary and iPad in hand. He has joined me for every hospice, hospital, and death call since he moved in with me. He stays in the car and prays his rosary, watches the dog and if I take too long, he plays sudoku. This is the man I was blessed to grow up with, a man he has spent 87 years becoming. This is the man I model my life after. Fidelity, service, strength under control, sacrifice…all of that and more. Happy birthday dad. I love you so very much.

Tuesday October 3, 2023

Day 276: Haman’s Plan — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 276: Irreligion and Atheism — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube

DAILY DEFENSE PODCAST w JIMMY AKIN Who Is the Greatest? | Catholic Answers Podcasts

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

1789 – George Washington proclaims Thursday November 26, 1789 a Thanksgiving Day.
1949 – WERD, the first black-owned radio station in the United States, opens in Atlanta.
1995 – O. J. Simpson murder case: O. J. Simpson is acquitted of the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman.
2023 – Kevin McCarthy is voted out of office, making him the first Speaker to ever be removed from office through a vote.
2023-Donald Trump wants future Republican debates to be canceled after refusing to participate in them | AP News
2023–Bishop calls for intense day of prayer and fasting for end of violence in Mexico

Quote of the Day

Owl! at the Library ��‍♀️@SketchesbyBoze: (Oct 3, 2023) call me crazy but I want a society where everyone from the artist to the janitor is paid a living wage, where creative hobbies and careers aren’t being stolen by machines, where poetry and music and literature are celebrated and respected.

Wednesday October 4, 2023

Saint Francis of Assisi

Catholic News Agency@cnalive (October 4, 2023) Pope Francis opened the Synod on Synodality’s three-week assembly with a call for the Church to face today’s challenges with a gaze fixed on God rather than “political calculations or ideological battles.”

Pope Francis@Pontifex (October 4, 2023) The #Synod serves to remind us of this: our Mother the Church is always in need of purification, of being “repaired”, for we are a People made up of forgiven sinners, always in need of returning to the source, who is Jesus, to reach everyone with his Gospel.

Day 277: Such a Time as This — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 277: Agnosticism and Graven Images — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube

DAILY DEFENSE PODCAST w JIMMY AKIN The Jewish People and the Old Testament Canon | Catholic Answers Podcasts

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

1511 – Formation of the Holy League of Aragon, the Papal States and Venice against France.
1535 – The Coverdale Bible is printed, with translations into English by William Tyndale and Myles Coverdale.
1582 – The Gregorian Calendar is introduced by Pope Gregory XIII.
1795 – Napoleon first rises to prominence by suppressing counter-revolutionary rioters threatening the National Convention.
1824 – Mexico adopts a new constitution and becomes a federal republic.
1883 – First run of the Orient Express.
1941 – Norman Rockwell’s Willie Gillis character debuts on the cover of The Saturday Evening Post.
1965 – Pope Paul VI begins the first papal visit to the Americas.
2023-Catholic News Agency@cnalive (October 4, 2023): Pope Francis on Wednesday released a new document on the environment that he has described as the “second part” of his 2015 encyclical Laudato Si’, which warns of “grave consequences” if humanity continues to ignore the threat of climate change.

“Praise God for all his creatures”. This was the message that Saint Francis of Assisi proclaimed by his life, his canticles and all his actions. In this way, he accepted the invitation of the biblical Psalms and reflected the sensitivity of Jesus before the creatures of his Father: “Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they neither toil nor spin, yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not clothed like one of these” (Mt 6:28-29). “Are not five sparrows sold for two pennies? Yet not one of them is forgotten in God’s sight” (Lk 12:6). How can we not admire this tenderness of Jesus for all the beings that accompany us along the way!-LAUDATE DEUM

Quotes of the Day

Tom@DigestTom (Oct 4, 2023) If trads walked into a Mass during the Middle Ages, “Great Age of Faith” that they idolize, they’d have a heart attack. If not at seeing animals roaming around, then maybe when the peasant cries out “Heave it higher Sir Priest!” or a guy breaks a paxbrede over a clerk’s head

Meg Hunter-Kilmer@MegHunterKilmer (Oct 4, 2023) I was praying about a possible job which would mean a possible home so then a possible walk to work so then possibly walking in bad weather so then POSSIBLE RAIN BOOTS and I sat up straight with a giant grin because when you live out of a Corolla you don’t get to have rain boots.

Thursday October 5, 2023

Saint Faustina Kowalska, Virgin; USA: Blessed Francis Xavier Seelos, Priest

National Rhode Island Day (my state)

Day 278: Power in Weakness — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 278: The Second Commandment — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube

DAILY DEFENSE PODCAST w JIMMY AKIN Lest Any Man Should Boast | Catholic Answers Podcasts

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

869 – The Fourth Council of Constantinople is convened to depose patriarch Photios I.
1607 – Assassins attempt to kill Venetian statesman and scientist Paolo Sarpi.
1921 – The World Series is the first to be broadcast on radio.
1938 – In Nazi Germany, Jews’ passports are invalidated.
1962 – The first of the James Bond film series, based on the novels by Ian Fleming, Dr. No, is released in Britain.[10]
1962 – The first Beatles single “Love Me Do” is released in Britain.
1970 – The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is founded.
1982 – Tylenol products are recalled after bottles in Chicago laced with cyanide cause seven deaths.
2023-An armed man demanding to talk to Wisconsin’s governor was arrested twice in one day The suspect was arrested earlier with a loaded handgun, demanding to see Gov. Tony Evers. After he made bail, he came back with an assault rifle.

Quotes of the Day

Old Haunted Tree �@OldHollowTree (October 5, 2023) You need to be bobbing for apples. You need to be trying to eat a donut hanging from a string. You need to be showing your children that their strong father can be an autumnal goofball capable of joyful abandon.

Melody Lyons@melodymlyons (October 5, 2023)
Carrying a pregnancy to term is a natural act that is consonant with the design of the body. Allowing the development of the child to progress isn’t force. Abortion is force. Forced entry. Forced death of a human. Forced disruption of biologically normative process….

A man being paid to forcibly open the cervix and enter a woman’s body with instruments of harm is a violation of two bodies. The physical and emotional consequences of such an act of violence should not be ignored, especially in women who have been previously traumatized by rape. The pro-abortion movement abandons these women in their trauma.

Owl! at the Library ��‍♀️@SketchesbyBoze (October 5, 2023) I love reading Shakespeare because he’ll go “here’s a shattering insight about death” and then he’ll go “here are twenty puns about sex” in the same speech.

Peter T Chattaway@ptchat (October 5, 2023) Has any movie ever had as many competing and mutually contradictory sequels and prequels as #TheExorcist? Five movies and one TV series that don’t agree with each other *at all*. Even #TheTerminator isn’t so convoluted. (At least one of *those* sequels is considered canonical.)

Friday October 6, 2023

Saint Bruno, Priest; USA: Blessed Marie Rose Durocher, Virgin

Day 279: Blessings and Burdens — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 279: False Oaths — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube

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

1898 – Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia, the largest American music fraternity, is founded at the New England Conservatory of Music.
1927 – Opening of The Jazz Singer, the first prominent “talkie” movie.
1979 – Pope John Paul II becomes the first pontiff to visit the White House.
1995 – The first planet orbiting another sun, 51 Pegasi b, is discovered.
2007 – Jason Lewis completes the first human-powered circumnavigation of the Earth.
2010 – Instagram, a mainstream photo-sharing application, is founded.
2023-Synod on Synodality 2023: Facts, Anecdotes, and Analysis From the First Week| National Catholic Register (ncregister.com)

Quote of the Day

Steve Skojec@TheSkojecFile (October 6, 2023) Your daily reminder that sugar suppresses the immune system, causes inflammation, and makes you fat. It’s also an addictive drug. Just say no!

Saturday October 7, 2023

Our Lady of the Rosary

Catholic News Agency@cnalive (October 7, 2023) On October 7, the Catholic Church celebrates the feast of Our Lady of the Rosary. Known for several centuries as “Our Lady of Victory,” the feast day takes place in honor of a 16th century naval victory which secured Europe against Turkish invasion.

A saint and a sea battle: How the rosary saved Christian Europe

Day 280: The People of the Covenant — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 280: The Christian Name — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube

DAILY DEFENSE PODCAST w JIMMY AKIN The Role of the Church Fathers | Catholic Answers Podcasts

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

1691 – The charter for the Province of Massachusetts Bay is issued.
1763 – King George III issues the Royal Proclamation of 1763, closing Indigenous lands in North America north and west of the Alleghenies to white settlements.
1950 – Mother Teresa establishes the Missionaries of Charity.
1996 – Fox News Channel begins broadcasting.
2001 – The U.S. invasion of Afghanistan begins with an air assault and covert operations on the ground, starting the longest war in American history.
2023–‘We are at war,’ Israeli PM Netanyahu says after Gaza militants infiltrate In a surprise attack, Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip on Saturday infiltrated southern Israel, killing at least 22 Israelis. It took place as militants fired dozens of rockets into Israel.

Quote of the Day

Emily Katherine@EmilyKath319 (October 7, 2023) Purgatory may be akin to being an overnight guest, waking up fairly early, and fairly hungry, and wondering how long you have to politely lay there since you need to kinda wait for your host to wake up first, and laying there thinking about it makes every minute seem like an hour

Sunday October 8, 2023

TWENTY-SEVENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME

Day 281: Good and Evil — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 281: Keep Holy the Lord’s Day — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube

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

1645 – Jeanne Mance opens the first lay hospital of North America in Montreal.
1829 – Stephenson’s Rocket wins the Rainhill Trials.
1956 – The New York Yankees’s Don Larsen pitches the only perfect game in a World Series.
2001 – U.S. President George W. Bush announces the establishment of the Office of Homeland Security.

Quote of the Day

**Father Jim Sichko@JimSichko (**October 9, 2023) Walking downtown O’falon,MO having breakfast. A passerby waved&came up to me&said,”I’m sorry,I thought you were someone else.”&I said,”I am.”

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