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When Advent Becomes a Challenge # 50

When Advent Becomes a Challenge # 50

Last updated on: December 17, 2023 at 6:33 am by Mark Wilson

When Advent Becomes a Challenge # 50 2023-12-17T06:33:01-05:00 Mark Wilson

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2023 and Advent are both coming to a close. When you get to the end it can be a challenge.

Lets run the race to the Finish line and close 2023 in a relaxing sprint towards Christmas and the new year. Lots of interesting facts and videos to make you laugh and think that

Happen Last Week and Year in Life.

Monday December 11, 2023

Saint Damasus I, Pope

Day 345: One in Christ — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 345: Animated by Prayer — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) (youtube.com)

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

1816 – Indiana becomes the 19th U.S. state.
1925 – Roman Catholic papal encyclical Quas primas introduces the Feast of Christ the King.
1934 – Bill Wilson, co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous, takes his last drink and enters treatment for the final time.
1972 – Apollo 17 becomes the sixth and final Apollo mission to land on the Moon.
2020 – The Food and Drug Administration issues an Emergency Use Authorization on the Pfizer–BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine, the first COVID-19 vaccine to be approved by the agency.
2023 – UPDATE: Woman to leave Texas to get abortion after state Supreme Court blocks ruling

Quote of the Day

David Murray@dvdmrryklly (Dec 11, 2023) I believe that most go to Purgatory. Few go directly to Heaven. Many (who reject God until the end) suffer eternal death.

Tuesday December 12, 2023

Our Lady of Guadalupe

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Day 346: Fruits of the Spirit — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 346: Meditation and Vocal Prayer — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) (youtube.com)

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

1901 – Guglielmo Marconi receives the first transatlantic radio signal (the letter “S” [•••] in Morse Code), at Signal Hill in St John’s, Newfoundland.[
1917 – Father Edward J. Flanagan founds Boys Town as a farm village for wayward boys.
2023 –YouTube restores HM Television’s channel, documentary on Sister Clare Crockett

Quote of the Day

William Hemsworth@w_hemsworth (Dec 12, 2023) You write because there’s fire in your bones. You’ve got to do this whether anybody ever reads it or not.

**Owl! at the Library ��‍♀️@SketchesbyBoze (**Dec 12, 2023) “how did people keep up with TV before the internet?” my young friend, we didn’t need phones. if you missed an episode, there would be one person in every classroom the next morning re-enacting the plot like a town crier

Bishop Robert Barron@BishopBarron (December 12, 2023) God is neither a thing in the world, nor the sum total of existing things; he is instead the unconditioned cause of the conditioned universe, the reason why there is something rather than nothing. Accordingly, God is not some good thing, but Goodness itself; not some true object, but Truth itself; not some beautiful reality, but Beauty itself.

Wednesday December 13, 2023

Saint Lucy, Virgin and Martyr

Day 347: Witness to Unbelievers — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 347: Contemplative Prayer — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) (youtube.com)

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

1623 – The Plymouth Colony establishes the system of trial by 12-men jury in the American colonies.
1769 – Dartmouth College is founded by the Reverend Eleazar Wheelock, with a royal charter from King George III, on land donated by Royal governor John Wentworth.
2023 – People have been searching for this song from ‘The X-Files’ for 25 years. Until now A song playing in the background of one episode has fascinated and eluded fans for more than two decades as they sought to track it, and the musicians, down. Now that mystery has finally been solved.

2023 –Pope Francis celebrates 54 years as a priest

Rubus@BristleBerry (December 14, 2023)
My dream job? Probably “Elite Grocery Store Clerk”

The lines are backing up and the desperate voice sounds over the intercom: “Rubus, checkout lane zero”
The crowded shoppers hush and wait, as though waiting for the concert soloist to approach the grand piano.

I step into place

Quote of the Day

Thursday December 14, 2023

Saint John of the Cross, Priest and Doctor of the Church

Day 348: Rules for the New Life — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 348: The Battle of Prayer — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) (youtube.com)

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1780 – Founding Father Alexander Hamilton marries Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton at the Schuyler Mansion in Albany, New York.
1782 – The Montgolfier brothers first test fly an unmanned hot air balloon in France; it floats nearly 2.5 km (1.6 mi)
1819 – Alabama becomes the 22nd U.S. state.
1972 – Apollo program: Eugene Cernan is the most recent person to walk on the Moon, after he and Harrison Schmitt complete the third and final extravehicular activity (EVA) of the Apollo 17 mission.
2012 – Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting: Twenty-eight people, including the gunman, are killed in Sandy Hook, Connecticut.
2017 – The Walt Disney Company announces that it would acquire 21st Century Fox, including the 20th Century Fox movie studio, for $52.4 billion.
2023-Away from Gaza, homes in south Lebanon bear the scars of Israel’s other front line A farming village in southern Lebanon sits on the edge of a parallel conflict to the war in Gaza, with Hezbollah militants fighting with Israel. Some Lebanese hold out hope for a permanent truce.

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

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Quote of the Day

Thy Geekdom Come��@ThyGeekdomCome (December 14, 2023) Hot Take: Holding literal interpretation of scripture as a norm sets Protestants up for requiring scripture to state things directly, which means missing out on a great deal of scripture’s deepest meanings imparted by typology, poetic phrasing, and implication.

Friday December 15, 2023

Day 349: Holy Indifference — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 349: Temptation, Trust, and Prayer — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) (youtube.com)

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

687 – Pope Sergius I is elected as a compromise between antipopes Paschal and Theodore.
1791 – The United States Bill of Rights becomes law when ratified by the Virginia General Assembly.
1939 – Gone with the Wind (highest inflation adjusted grossing film) receives its premiere at Loew’s Grand Theatre in Atlanta, Georgia, United States.
1978 – U.S. President Jimmy Carter announces that the United States will recognize the People’s Republic of China and sever diplomatic relations with the Republic of China (Taiwan).
2023 –Salesian priest stabbed to death in Democratic Republic of the Congo

Quote of the Day

Old Hollow Tree@OldHollowTree (December 15, 2023) It’s pretty remarkable that the sun and the moon are vastly different sizes but we are just lucky enough that they are of a relative distance to create the illusion that they are a similar size. �

Saturday December 16, 2023

Day 350: Faith and Works — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
Day 350: Persevering in Prayer — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) (youtube.com)

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

1905 – In Rugby Union, The “Match of the Century” is played between Wales and New Zealand at Cardiff Arms Park.
1968 – Second Vatican Council: Official revocation of the Edict of Expulsion of Jews from Spain.
2023 –Two women killed amid Israeli attack at Holy Family Parish in Gaza, Latin Patriarchate says

Quote of the Day

Tom@DigestTom (December 17, 2023) Every day I become more and more grateful for Pope Francis being at the helm of the universal church.

Sunday December 17, 2023

THIRD SUNDAY OF ADVENT

Day 351: Draw Near to God — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube
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Here’s What Happen Last Week and Year in Life.

1538 – Pope Paul III excommunicates Henry VIII of England.
1790 – The Aztec calendar stone is discovered at El Zócalo, Mexico City.
1903 – The Wright brothers make the first controlled powered, heavier-than-air flight in the Wright Flyer at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
1969 – Project Blue Book: The United States Air Force closes its study of UFOs.
2023- Pope Francis turns 87: one of the oldest popes in Church history
Quote of the Day

Albert Gim Juie Oon@OonAlbert (December 17, 2023) Daily reminder to go to confession and repent of your sins before it’s too late. You have today to repent. Every day after, every moment even, is an example of God’s great mercy that allows you more time. You are not measured by your failings. What counts is that you get back up.

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