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The Write Lessons In Weekly Blogging-LWIL # 44

The Write Lessons In Weekly Blogging-LWIL # 44

Last updated on: November 19, 2023 at 11:15 am by Mark Wilson

The Write Lessons In Weekly Blogging-LWIL # 44 2023-11-19T11:15:49-05:00 Mark Wilson

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Sometimes I feel like I’m just phoning it in with my Last Week in Life blog posts. I’m tired from lack of sleep. I got a CPAP machine but so far it has not made a difference. My mind feels frazzled. I’ve also been doing research on other writing projects. I’ve spent time with friends and my wife which occupy my time. I have to go to work. I feel that I don’t always put the quality I should into these posts. I would like to reconstruct the way I do them. Actually I would like to stop doing them cause they don’t seem great quality and it is sort of a project to do.

But I started doing it and I believe in completing what I started. Everytime I feel like I’m not going to finish I keep on going. It could be better but then again it is good enough.

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The write lesson is that you can find the determination to keep going even when you feel like stopping or not going on. It’s good to finish the race and complete the goal you’ve started even when it is not as good as you might like it. The commitment will somehow pay off. Sometimes it is the time to sign off and begin something new. But then again sometimes it is good to finish what you started and make it complete. So I keep on writing at least till the end of the year. With that in mind…

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

Monday October 30, 2023

Day 303: Eleazar’s Martyrdom — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 303: Summary of the Fifth Commandment — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube

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Here’s What Happ en Last Week and Year in Life.

1938 – Orson Welles broadcasts a radio adaptation of H. G. Wells’s The War of the Worlds, causing a massive panic in some of the audience in the United States.
1961 – Due to “violations of Vladimir Lenin‘s precepts”, it is decreed that Joseph Stalin‘s body be removed from its place of honour inside Lenin’s tomb and buried near the Kremlin Wall with a plain granite marker.
1980 – El Salvador and Honduras agree to put the border dispute fought over in 1969’s Football War before the International Court of Justice.
2023-No candy for you. Some towns ban older kids from trick-or-treating on Halloween When are kids too old to go trick-or-treating? In some U.S. towns, it’s illegal for teenagers to indulge in the sweetest part of Halloween – one even threatened jail time.
2023-Wife of Jordan Peterson to Become Catholic: Tammy Peterson’s Journey Through the Power of the Rosary – EWTN Global Catholic Television Network

Quote of the Day

Frank J. Tassone@fjtassone2 (Oct 30, 2023) I have reached the point of the discourse in much of #CatholicTwitter / #CatholicX where I now mute with extreme prejudice. As I can clearly not reason with grifters, I see no reason to promote them with engagement.

pouring rain
the song remains
the same

Tuesday October 31, 2023

Halloween

Day 304: Life Beyond Death — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 304: Male and Female — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube

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

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2023- Rob Schneider: ‘I am a new convert to Catholicism’ – Deacon Greg Kandra (thedeaconsbench.com)

Quote of the Day

Old Haunted Tree �@OldHollowTree (October 31, 2023)

I am happy to report that every child I saw this Halloween in our rural village was some variety of animal, mostly farm animals and a few dinosaurs.

We are going to make it.

Wednesday November 1, 2023

All Saints Day

You Can be a SAINT!!! | Kristin Wilson (patheos.com)

Day 305: The Defender — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 305: The Call to Chastity — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube

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

1503 – Pope Julius II is elected.
1512 – The ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, painted by Michelangelo, is exhibited to the public for the first time.
1604 – William Shakespeare‘s tragedy Othello is performed for the first time, at Whitehall Palace in London.
1611 – Shakespeare’s play The Tempest is performed for the first time, at Whitehall Palace in London.
1800 – John Adams becomes the first President of the United States to live in the Executive Mansion (later renamed the White House).
1848 – In Boston, Massachusetts, the first medical school for women, Boston Female Medical School (which later merged with the Boston University School of Medicine), opens.
1894 – Buffalo Bill, 15 of his Native Americans, and Annie Oakley were filmed by Thomas Edison in his Black Maria Studio in West Orange, New Jersey.
1896 – A picture showing the bare breasts of a woman appears in National Geographic magazine for the first time.
1897 – The first Library of Congress building opens its doors to the public; the library had previously been housed in the Congressional Reading Room in the U.S. Capitol.
1938 – Seabiscuit defeats War Admiral in an upset victory during a match race deemed “the match of the century” in horse racing.
1952 – Nuclear weapons testing: The United States successfully detonates Ivy Mike, the first thermonuclear device, at the Eniwetok atoll. The explosion had a yield of ten megatons TNT equivalent.
2023- Pope Francis calls for ‘paradigm shift’ in theology for world of today

Quote of the Day

Fr. Joseph Krupp@Joeinblack ( November 1, 2023)

When we read about the lives of Saints, most of what we learn will seem unattainable, but that’s because we are hearing a whole life time in two pages. Saints are made in the daily grind: the little decisions day by day to do what is right: to pray, to grow, to serve and to sacrifice.

Sainthood doesn’t always feel glorious as it’s happening, it usually feels like a simply deciding to do right no matter the cost. It feels like not joining in when others are getting ripped on. It feels like taking less quietly so others can have more. Much of sainthood is the quiet little secrets between you and Jesus; when you swallow your pride, sacrifice what you want and do it because of love. Saints are not made in a day, they are made in the day to day.

Pray. Love.

Sacrifice.

Be humble.

Be a Saint.

#AllSaintsDay #talkedtotheboss

Thursday November 2, 2023

All Souls Day

Day 306: Wisdom Is Beautiful — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 306: Gift of Self — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube

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

1868 – Time zone: New Zealand officially adopts a standard time to be observed nationally.
1983 – U.S. President Ronald Reagan signs a bill creating Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.[30]
1984 – Capital punishment: Velma Barfield becomes the first woman executed in the United States since 1962.
1986 – Lebanon hostage crisis: U.S. hostage David Jacobsen is released in Beirut after 17 months in captivity.[

Quote of the Day

(((Simcha Fisher)))@SimchaFisher (Nov 2, 2023)
Teenager: Today, the art class wanted to watch Frasier again. I got them hooked.
11 year old: You’re like Prometheus, bringing fire to the mortals on earth.
8 yr old: Except nobody is biting out your liver every day.
Teen: You don’t know that. You don’t know my five-year plan.

Friday November 3, 2023

[Saint Martin de Porres, Religious]

Day 307: Courage in Battle — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 307: Offenses Against Chastity — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube

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

1493 – Christopher Columbus first sights the island of Dominica in the Caribbean Sea.
1534 – English Parliament passes the first Act of Supremacy, making King Henry VIII head of the Anglican Church, supplanting the pope and the Roman Catholic Church.
1793 – French playwright, journalist and feminist Olympe de Gouges is guillotined.
1838 – The Times of India, the world’s largest circulated English language daily broadsheet newspaper is founded as The Bombay Times and Journal of Commerce.
1908 – William Howard Taft is elected the 27th President of the United States.
1911 – Chevrolet officially enters the automobile market in competition with the Ford Model T.
1936 – Franklin D. Roosevelt is elected the 32nd President of the United States.
2020 – The 2020 United States presidential election takes place between Democratic Joe Biden and Republican incumbent President Donald Trump. On November 7, Biden was declared the winner.
2023-Jesuits say they warned diocese that incardinated Rupnik had complaints against him
2023-Nigerian bishop: Tens of thousands spent to rescue kidnapped priests, seminarians

Quote of the Day

**Old Hollow Tree@OldHollowTree (**November 3, 2023)
Sam Bankman-Fried famously said that he didn’t like to read books.

You know what happened to him?

HE WENT TO PRISON!

Do YOU want to go to prison?!

No? Well, you better get reading.

Saturday November 4, 2023

Saint Charles Borromeo, Bishop

Day 308: Little by Little — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 308: Same-Sex Attraction — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube

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

1493 – Christopher Columbus reaches the Leeward Islands.
1783 – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart‘s Symphony No. 36 is performed for the first time in Linz, Austria.
1922 – In Egypt, British archaeologist Howard Carter and his men find the entrance to Tutankhamun‘s tomb in the Valley of the Kings.
1952 – The United States government establishes the National Security Agency, or NSA.
1979 – Iran hostage crisis: A group of Iranian college students overruns the U.S. embassy in Tehran and takes 90 hostages.
2023-More than 40,000 young people make pilgrimage to Virgin of Rio Blanco shrine in Argentina

Quote of the Day

Fr. Paul ❤️‍�@BackwardsFeet (October 4, 2023) Is Larryboy more like Batman or Spiderman

Sunday November 5, 2023

THIRTY-FIRST SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME

Day 309: Praying for the Dead — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 309: Faithful and Fruitful Marriage — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube

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

1499 – The Catholicon, written in 1464 by Jehan Lagadeuc in Tréguier, is published; this is the first Breton dictionary as well as the first French dictionary.
1605 – Gunpowder Plot: Guy Fawkes is arrested in the cellars of the Houses of Parliament, where he had planted gunpowder in an attempt to blow up the building and kill King James I of England.
1895 – George B. Selden is granted the first U.S. patent for an automobile.
1912 – Woodrow Wilson is elected the 28th President of the United States, defeating incumbent William Howard Taft.
1916 – The Everett massacre takes place in Everett, Washington as political differences lead to a shoot-out between the Industrial Workers of the World organizers and local police.
1925 – Secret agent Sidney Reilly, the first “super-spy” of the 20th century, is executed by the OGPU, the secret police of the Soviet Union.
1955 – After being destroyed in World War II, the rebuilt Vienna State Opera reopens with a performance of Beethoven‘s Fidelio.
1968 – Richard Nixon is elected as 37th President of the United States.
1996 – Bill Clinton is reelected President of the United States.
2006 – Saddam Hussein, the former president of Iraq, and his co-defendants Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti and Awad Hamed al-Bandar, are sentenced to death in the al-Dujail trial for their roles in the 1982 massacre of 148 Shia Muslims.
2023-Pope Francis opens two new laundromats for the homeless
Quote of the Day

Scott Barber@thescottbarber (November 5, 2023) God must have been like “No. Why are you inventing the microscope?! You literally don’t want to see what’s down there.” “I didn’t give you microscopic vision for a reason.”

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