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Hollywood Vs. Audience and Actors -LWIL # 46

Hollywood Vs. Audience and Actors -LWIL # 46

Last updated on: November 20, 2023 at 12:00 am by Mark Wilson

Hollywood Vs. Audience and Actors -LWIL # 46 2023-11-19T18:48:02-05:00 Mark Wilson

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Catholics, Atheists, Muslims, Jews, Hindus, Buddhists, Mormons and others all love movies, stories and being entertained. It’s an ecumenical medium for all people because all people love stories. One of the distributors in the modern world of bringing stories to people is Hollywood. And lately they have been doing a not so good job of doing it. Some of the videos I have included in this week in review discuss such issues. Hollywood is Wile E Coyote and the audience and actors are the Road Runner. There is a news story that happened this past week that directly relates to this analogy.

Plus we look at the various saints feast days and other interesting trivia and news that happened..

Last Week and Year in Life.

Monday November 13, 2023

Saint Frances Xavier Cabrini, Virgin

Day 317: International Justice and Solidarity — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 317: International Justice and Solidarity — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube

Daily Defense Podcast With Jimmy Akin The Last Supper and Passover | Catholic Answers Podcasts

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

1940 – Walt Disney‘s animated musical film Fantasia is first released at New York’s Broadway Theatre, on the first night of a roadshow.
2023 –Outspoken atheist Ayaan Hirsi Ali says she is now a Christian

Quote of the Day

Seannafair@wyldrosemari (November 13, 2023)

Rewatching the Twilight movies with my daughter while she’s home sick and man I have such a love hate relationship with them. They’re such fun junk food but Edward is such toxic trash I spend half the time like, “BUT WHY WOULD HE DO THAT!? ABSOLUTE POS!!!.”

Tuesday November 14, 2023

Elizabeth Scalia@TheAnchoress (November 14, 2023) Good morning all you works of God! It is the feast of St. Lawrence O’Toole. Taken hostage at age 10, he eventually became abbot of Glendalough. W/ so many children & adults being held hostage or trafficked at this very moment, let’s ask his prayers for those in need of rescue.

Day 318: The Narrow Gate, Lost Sheep, and Prodigal Son — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 318: Love for the Poor — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube

Daily Defense Podcast With Jimmy Akin Pascal’s Wager | Catholic Answers Podcasts

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

1851 – Moby-Dick, a novel by Herman Melville, is published in the USA.
2023-Meet the Spanish saint who helps those who suffer from diabetes

Quote of the Day

Pedro Gabriel Writer@pedrogabwriter Nov 14, 2023)

Trad-English dictionary

“Ambiguity”: Papal teachings I disagree with (see also “confusion”)

“Asking questions”: Declaring that papal teaching is wrong

“Clarity”: Teachings I agree with / that I think the pope should teach

“Hyperpapalism”: Obeying the pope when I don’t want to

Catholic Guy Show@catholicguyshow (Nov 14, 2023) “‘The story has a happy ending: I bought my dog a cupcake for his birthday. So overall, other than my grandpa dying, I had a good weekend,’ is not a sentence.” – Lino Rulli on Tyler talking about the good and bad of his weekend.

Wednesday November 15, 2023

Saint Albert the Great, Bishop and Doctor of the Church

Day 319: Come, Follow Me — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 319: Summary of the Seventh Commandment — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube

Daily Defense Podcast With Jimmy Akin Objections to Pascal’s Wager | Catholic Answers Podcasts

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

1938 – Nazi Germany bans Jewish children from public schools in the aftermath of Kristallnacht.[
2001 – Microsoft launches the Xbox game console.
2023 –U.S. bishops approve voting guide that calls abortion ‘preeminent priority’

Quote of the Day

Owl! at the Library ��‍♀️@SketchesbyBoze (November 15, 2023)
Romanticize your life. Write letters by hand. Light the expensive candles. Play film soundtracks while you work. The world is full of heartache but there’s joy in seeing yourself as part of a story being written, in finding the hidden glory at the back of things.

Thursday November 16, 2023

[Saint Margaret of Scotland; Saint Gertrude, Virgin]

Day 320: Peter’s Denial Foretold — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 320: The Truth — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube

Daily Defense Podcast With Jimmy Akin Past, Present, and Future Sins | Catholic Answers Podcasts

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

1793 – French Revolution: Ninety dissident Roman Catholic priests are executed by drowning at Nantes.
1822 – American Old West: Missouri trader William Becknell arrives in Santa Fe, New Mexico, over a route that became known as the Santa Fe Trail.
1855 – David Livingstone becomes the first European to see the Victoria Falls in what is now Zambia–Zimbabwe.
1938 – LSD is first synthesized by Albert Hofmann from ergotamine at the Sandoz Laboratories in Basel
1940 – New York City’s “Mad Bomber” George Metesky places his first bomb at a Manhattan office building used by Consolidated Edison.
1973 – Skylab program: NASA launches Skylab 4 with a crew of three astronauts from Cape Canaveral, Florida for an 84-day mission.
1973 – U.S. President Richard Nixon signs the Trans-Alaska Pipeline Authorization Act into law, authorizing the construction of the Alaska Pipeline.
1990 – Pop group Milli Vanilli are stripped of their Grammy Award because the duo did not sing at all on the Girl You Know It’s True album. Session musicians had provided all the vocals.
2023 –EWTN anchor’s Christmas album climbs the charts
2023 – Catholic Relief Services calls for ‘immediate cessation of violence’ in Gaza to allow aid

Quote of the Day

Mary Pezzulo@mary_pezzulo (November 16, 2023) The entire neighborhood is codependent to Rhonda the hen now. I came out to give her a snack and she scorned it because she was eating out of a real chicken feeder someone installed in the bushes at the house of the nice old lady who passed away across the street.

Friday November 17, 2023

Saint Elizabeth of Hungary, Religious

Day 321: Jesus’ Prayer in the Garden — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 321: Offenses Against Truth — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube

Daily Defense Podcast With Jimmy Akin An Evolutionary By-Product? | Catholic Answers Podcasts

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

1800 – The United States Congress holds its first session in Washington, D.C.
1947 – The Screen Actors Guild implements an anti-Communist loyalty oath.
1962 – President John F. Kennedy dedicates Washington Dulles International Airport, serving the Washington, D.C., region.
1973 – Watergate scandal: In Orlando, Florida, U.S. President Richard Nixon tells 400 Associated Press managing editors “I am not a crook.”
2003 – Actor Arnold Schwarzenegger’s tenure as the governor of California began.
2019 – The first known case of COVID-19 is traced to a 55-year-old man who had visited a market in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China.
2023 –Here’s what ‘border bishops’ think about the migrant crisis

Quote of the Day

Father Jim Sichko@JimSichko (Nov 17, 2023) God is found in the ordinary that we may encounter Him in an extraordinary way. Be blessed and know you are remembered in my prayers.

Saturday November 18, 2023

[The Dedication of the Basilicas of Saints Peter and Paul, Apostles;
USA: Saint Rose Philippine Duchesne, V

Day 322: The Ascension — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 321: Offenses Against Truth — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube

Daily Defense Podcast With Jimmy Akin Old Testament Laws | Catholic Answers Podcasts

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

326 – The old St. Peter’s Basilica is consecrated by Pope Sylvester I.
1095 – The Council of Clermont begins: called by Pope Urban II, it led to the First Crusade to the Holy Land
1302 – Pope Boniface VIII issues the Papal bull Unam sanctam, claiming spiritual supremacy for the papacy.
1493 – Christopher Columbus first sights the island now known as Puerto Rico.
1626 – The new St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome is consecrated.
1872 – Susan B. Anthony and 14 other women are arrested for voting illegally in the United States presidential election of 1872.
1910 – In their campaign for women’s voting rights, hundreds of suffragettes march to the British Parliament in London. Several are beaten by police, newspaper attention embarrasses the authorities, and the march is dubbed Black Friday.
1978 – In Jonestown, Guyana, Jim Jones leads his Peoples Temple to a mass murder–suicide that claimed 918 lives in all, 909 of them in Jonestown itself, including over 270 children.
2013 – NASA launches the MAVEN probe to Mars.
2023 –Pope Francis to meet with families of Israeli hostages and Palestinians with relatives in Gaza

Quote of the Day

Steve Skojec@TheSkojecFile (November 18, 2023) Whenever I hear the old 40s and 50s Christmas standards, it makes me so damn nostalgic for the America that was. White Christmas, Silver Bells, I’ll Be Home for Christmas — this was the music of a simpler, more wholesome time.

Sunday November 19, 2023

THIRTY-THIRD SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME

Day 323: Pentecost — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 323: Truth, Beauty, and Sacred Art — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube

Daily Defense Podcast With Jimmy Akin Why Sacraments? | Catholic Answers Podcasts

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

1493 – Christopher Columbus goes ashore on an island called Borinquen he first saw the day before. He names it San Juan Bautista (later renamed again Puerto Rico).
1955 – National Review publishes its first issue.
1969 – Apollo program: Apollo 12 astronauts Pete Conrad and Alan Bean land at Oceanus Procellarum (the “Ocean of Storms”) and become the third and fourth humans to walk on the Moon.
1998 – Clinton–Lewinsky scandal: The United States House of Representatives Judiciary Committee begins impeachment hearings against U.S. President Bill Clinton.
2004 – The worst brawl in NBA history results in several players being suspended. Several players and fans are charged with assault and battery.
2023- ‘Mass of a Lifetime’ reminds elderly ‘their community has not forgotten them’
Quote of the Day

Pope Francis@Pontifex (November 19, 2023) Let us continue to pray for tormented Ukraine, and for the populations of Palestine and Israel. Peace is possible. Let us not resign ourselves to war! And let us not forget that war is always, always, always a defeat: the only ones to gain are arms manufacturers.

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