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"𝘉𝘦 𝘣𝘰𝘭𝘥 𝘰𝘳 𝘥𝘪𝘦..."

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About St Gemma Galgani (left)

About St Frances Xavier Cabrini (right)

Modern Bracket Round 1

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All & Everyone, Everyone & All, meet Francesca Saverio Cabrini, my new human hero.

She accomplished so much in her lifetime, and I strive to do as much good in the world as she did.

Recently, Angel Studios made an entire film about her, and I think showing it in theatres during March was very intentional. I cried while watching it, which doesn't happen with a lot of films. It was fabulous, and I highly recommend you see it.

Cabrini was an Italian nun who lived in a time when Italian immigrants were hated by the people already living in America.

As a teen, when she first wanted to become a nun, she was denied several times by different places because she had a weak constitution due to a near-death experience she had as a child, when she almost drowned.

Denied her request to start and lead a mission in China, she was allowed to go to New York, to start an orphanage there.

Once there, in a town called Five Points, she found that even the rats had it better than the children in the streets, most of which were Italian immigrants. She started the orphanage with what little she had, but it became quickly apparent that there wasn't nearly enough room.

Despite great odds, she founded several orphanages, and eventually even fought to establish a hospital, hiring mostly Italians, with the aim to provide the highest services, to both the American socialite and Italian immigrant, and run entirely by women.

She went on to found many hospitals of the same nature, all over the world, even deep in China where she had originally longed to serve.

She had to fight every moment of her life to be allowed to do good, simply because faithless men did not believe what she proposed was even possible, much less worth it.

She was not always alone, though. She made genuine friends along the way, and it's important to know that she embarked on the journey with fellow Sisters by her side. She did not try to do things alone. She relied on their support many times, as any wise, good leader ought.

Remember her name, and her example, and teach all those you know about this incredible person who deserves far more recognition.

To learn more about her, I highly recommend you watch the film, and you can also read her Wikipedia article:

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SAINT OF THE DAY (November 13)

On November 13, the universal Church honors St. Frances Xavier Cabrini, an Italian missionary who spent much of her life working with Italian immigrants in the United States.

Mother Cabrini, who had a deathly fear of water and drowning, crossed the Atlantic Ocean more than 30 times in service of the Church and the people she was serving.

She was born Maria Francesca Cabrini on 15 July 1850 in Sant'Angelo Lodigiano, in the Lombard Province of Lodi, then part of the Austrian Empire.

She was the youngest of the thirteen children of farmers Agostino Cabrini and Stella Oldini. Only four of the thirteen survived beyond adolescence.

From a young age, she longed to be a missionary in China, but God had other plans for her.

Orphaned in Italy before she was 18, she joined the Sisters of the Sacred Heart and took on the name “Xavier” in honor of St. Francis Xavier, the great missionary to the Orient.

At the advice of Pope Leo XIII, who told her “Not to the East, but to the West,” she focused her missionary efforts on the United States.

Accepting Archbishop Corrigan of New York's invitation, she came to America and spent nearly 30 years traveling back and forth across the Atlantic Ocean, as well as around the United States, setting up orphanages, hospitals, convents, and schools for the often marginalized Italian immigrants.

Eventually, St. Frances became a naturalized U.S. citizen.

She died on 22 December 1917.

She was beatified by Pope Pius XI on 13 November 1938. She was canonized by Pope Pius XII on 7 July 1946, just before a new wave of immigrants began to arrive in the U.S.

St. Frances Cabrini is the patron of immigrants.

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Saint Frances Xavier Cabrini

1850 - 1917

Feast day: November 13 (New), December 22 (Trad)

Patronage: immigrants, hospital administrators

St. Frances Xavier Cabrini, M.S.C., also called Mother Cabrini, was an Italian Religious Sister, who founded the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart, a Catholic religious institute which was a major support to the Italian immigrants to the United States. She was the first citizen of the United States to be canonized by the Catholic Church.

Prints, plaques & holy cards available for purchase here: (website)

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St Frances Xavier Cabrini

Mother Cabrini was born on July 15, 1850 in Sant'Angelo Lodigiano, Italy. Being enthralled by missionaries and their work she made up her mind to join a religious order. Because of her frail health Mother Cabrini was not able to join the Daughters of the Sacred Heart who had been her teachers and under whom she obtained a teaching certificate. However, in 1880 she along with seven young women founded  the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. She was resourceful managing to find people to donate their time, labor, and money to cover the needs of her order and its charitable acts. Mother Cabrini and her fellow sisters wanted to go to China as Missionaries but in an audience with Pope Leo XIII she was told "Not to go East but to go West." Mother Cabrini was to go to New York. She and several sisters emigrated to the United States leaving Italy on March 23, 1889 and arriving in New York City on March 31st. Mother Cabrini was to serve the Italian immigrants in New York where she was met with poverty and chaos. Despite tremendous odds Mother Cabrini and her sisters provided for the many needs of the Italian immigrants establishing schools and orphanages. Mother Cabrini arrived in Seattle (my home town) on 1903 exclaiming upon her arrival in the Northwest, "Here we are, not far from the North Pole." While in Seattle she worshipped at St. James Cathedral and she founded Cabrini Medical Tower only but a block away from the cathedral. Mother Cabrini would go on to found hospitals and schools throughout the world. Mother Cabrini died on December 22, 1917, in Chicago. Before her death Mother Cabrini became a United States citizen. In 1946, she became the first American citizen to be canonized. She was elevated to sainthood by Pope Pius XII.

Saint Mother Cabrini is the patron saint of immigrants. Her feast day is November 13.

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Christmas Novenas, Notre-Dame de Chartres / Our Lady of Chartres / The Chartres Pilgrimage) (1935), St Frances Xavier Cabrini and the Saints for 22 December

Christmas Novena to the Divine Infant JesusBy St Alphonsus Maria de Liguori (1696-1787)THE SEVENTH DAY:https://anastpaul.com/2022/12/22/christmas-novena-to-the-divine-infant-jesus-by-st-alphonsus-day-seven-22-december/ The Monthly Novena to theMiraculous Infant Jesus of PragueThe Seventh Day Notre-Dame de Chartres / Our Lady of Chartres, (Pèlerinage de Chartres / The Chartres Pilgrimage) Mother…

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What motivates you?

(by request, my homily from Sunday)

I’d like to talk with you today about what motivates you.

In today’s Gospel, Jesus warns His followers not to be terrified, to not live in fear. Why?

In Jesus’ time, Roman-occupied Judea was a bomb. Waiting to explode.

The Jewish people were looking for the next King David, the next Judah the Maccabee to lead a rebellion against Rome. All they needed was someone to rally them and the revolution would be on.

Jesus knows what’s coming their way. So does everyone else. It’s that obvious. And they have a lot of reasons to live in fear.

Because it’s going to get worse. A lot worse. They will get their rebellion against Rome. And it will end horribly – one hundred thousand people will die and the Temple itself will be destroyed – when Rome has finally had enough.

In the face of that, Jesus doesn’t tell them to stockpile weapons or pack a bug out bag. He doesn’t tell them to get a second passport. Instead, Jesus tells them – not to live in fear.

And you’re thinking, “Wasn’t the Temple was destroyed in 70 AD? The last time I checked, we were a few years past that. Thanks for the history lesson. But this doesn’t really apply to me.”

Actually, the Church Fathers like to point out that what Jesus is telling people to not be terrified by – is pretty normal stuff.

Jesus’ list of “wars, insurrections, earthquakes, famine, plagues?” As St. Augustine puts it, this is the “common condition of nations.”

And he’s right. Look at the news. There’s a war in Ukraine. There are insurrections in Hong Kong and Iran. In the last few weeks we’ve had major earthquakes in Indonesia, the Philippines, Mexico, Guatemala, and elsewhere.

Closer to home, the drought that’s drying up the Mississippi is already driving up food prices and will get even worse if we don’t have a really wet winter. And for plagues? We all know the answer to that one.

Which means that Jesus’ warning doesn’t have an expiration date. So what exactly is Jesus trying to tell us?

Jesus is trying to tell us to be careful about what we focus on, about what we let in. Because if we focus on the things that terrify us, if we let in things that fill us with fear, that’s what will motivate us. And we will be deceived.

As you know, there are people who are happy to deceive us. There are multi-billion-dollar businesses built on deceiving us. If you and I live in fear? We will be easy to deceive.

With so many people in the business of selling fear – and anger, which is just a secondary emotion that grows out of fear. With so many people mindlessly repeating that stuff on social media, it’s hard for us not to be afraid.

Is there anything you and I can do? How do we respond?

We respond by choosing what we let in. By being intentional about what gets into us – to motivate us.

And it starts by choosing to let in the simple, basic baptismal call of every Christian. To reflect the love of Christ poured out for us. The love that our hearts are filled with. The love that keeps our hearts beating.

To let that love motivate us, in everything that we do.

What does that even mean? It means to be intentional about what you let in. To recognize that what you let into you - will become what motivates you. And to choose only those things that will motivate you to be who God made you to be.

Starting with the love of Christ. And coming back to the love of Christ. Over and over. Day by day. Hour by hour.

Judging everything else you let in by the love of Christ, and your high calling to reflect the love of Christ. And intentionally rejecting anything that does not reflect the Love that made you.

What does that look like in practice?

One of the people it looks like is St. Frances Xavier Cabrini. Mother Cabrini.

And you’re thinking, “That’s an impossible standard. She founded the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart. She started 67 different institutions – schools, hospitals, orphanages – only the great saints do stuff like that.”

Before she was a saint. Before she ever founded anything. Before she was Mother Cabrini. Before she was a nun.

She was Maria Francesca Cabrini. The youngest of 13 children on a small farm in northern Italy.

She was inspired by the sisters who taught her at the little school in her village. So she studied to become a grade school teacher and got her teaching certificate.

But she didn’t start out with the grand and the glorious. Actually, she didn’t even get to start out teaching third graders full-time.

She had to balance her career with her parents’ failing health. So she worked part-time as a substitute teacher, while she took care of her mom and dad.

The key to it all – and why Maria became who she became – is how she did it.

She didn’t do it resentfully, begrudging her parents for holding back, from keeping her from being a teacher. She didn’t do it in fear, wondering what would happen to her after her parents died.

She let herself be motivated by the love of Christ poured out for her, the same love that’s poured out for you and for me.

She let herself be motivated by the love that her heart was filled with, the same love that your heart and my heart is filled with.

What separates Maria from the rest of us, why she eventually became Saint Frances Xavier Cabrini, is that she worked to keep her focus on the love of Christ.

This wasn’t a one and done for her. She kept coming back to the love of Christ in prayer. Over and over. Day by day. Hour by hour.

Hers was not a breakthrough followed by perfection but a lifetime of dogged persistence. Coming back to God again and again. Because of that, God moved in her and through her to do all of the things that we think of, when we think of her as a saint.

What separates Maria from the rest of us, is that she judged everything else that she let in by the love of Christ, and by her high calling to reflect the love of Christ. She intentionally rejected anything that did not reflect the Love that made her.

We see it in one of the prayers that she composed for herself, rejecting by name the things in her that did not reflect that Love. It goes like this:

Fortify me with the grace of Your Holy Spirit and give Your peace to my soul that I may be free from all needless anxiety, solicitude and worry. Help me to desire always that which is pleasing and acceptable to You so that Your will may be my will. Amen.

That is how you and I do it.

Take this prayer of Mother Cabrini. Go to the first sentence of her prayer, to the underlined words. Those are the things that Mother Cabrini saw in herself that did not reflect the love of Christ.

Replace hers with yours. Instead of anxiety and worry, maybe yours are anger or fear, maybe doubt or loneliness, maybe envy or pride.

You don’t have to tell anyone, this is between you and God. But do it.

Whatever they are, name the things in you that do not reflect the love of Christ. Name the things in you that do not reflect your high calling to reflect the love of Christ.

Then pray this prayer, your version of her prayer. Over and over. Day by day. Hour by hour.

And watch as God moves in you and through you in ways you would never imagine.

Sunday’s Readings

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Blessed Eugene Bossilkov C.P. Bishop, Martyr Born November 16, 1900 Died November 11, 1952 (aged 51) Venerated in Roman Catholic Church Beatified1998, Rome, Italy by Pope John Paul II Feast November 13

More Saints of the Day Novembre 13

 St. Frances Xavier Cabrini

 St. Abbo 

St. Arcadius and Companions 

Bl. Vincent Bossilkov 

St. Brice 

St. Caillin 

St. Chillien 

St. Dalmatius of Rodez 

St. Devinicus 

St. Didacus 

St. Gredifael 

St. Homobonus 

St. Maxellendis 

St. Mitrius

 St. Quintian

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We must pray without tiring, for the salvation of mankind does not depend on material success; but on Jesus alone.

-St. Frances Xavier Cabrini

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Holidays 7.7

Holidays

Aerial Forest Protection Service Day (Russia)

All You Need Is Love Day

Andean Condor Day

ASB Young People’s Day (UK)

Battle of Chesma Day (Russia)

Bonza Bottler Day

Bungie Day

Cherry Dy (French Republic)

Comic Book Day

Day of Water Transport Workers (Belarus, Russia)

Double Seven Day (China)

Family Day (Lesotho)

Father-Daughter Take A Walk Together Day

Fishermen’s Day (Marshall Islands)

George Town Heritage Day (Penang, Malaysia)

Global Forgiveness Day

International Oola Day

International Peace & Love Day

International Ponytail Day

International Soil Conversation Day

Kharchi Puja (Tripura, India)

Kinderfest (Children’s Day; Switzerland)

LOL Surprise! Day

Medical Worker Day (Kyrgyzstan)

National Black Women in Sports Day

National Day of Rock ’n’ Roll

National Dora Day

National Father-Daughter Take a Walk Day

National Greshun Day

National Hellcat Day

National Koi Day

National Zombie Day

Running of the Bulls begins (Fiesta de San Fermin; Pamplona, Spain) [thru 7.14]

Saba Saba Day (Farmer’s Day; Tanzania)

Serbian Peoples Uprising Day (Yugoslavia)

Seven Deadly Sins Day

707 Day

Seven Seven (UK)

Tanabata (Star Festival; Japan)

Tell the Truth Day

Tribute 7/7 (Texas)

TR-707 Day

Undina Asteroid Day

Unity Factory Day (Yemen)

Vardavar (Armenia)

White-Flowered Bower (a.k.a. Wild Virgin’s Bower)

World Byproduct Day

World Kiswahili Language Day

Food & Drink Celebrations

Eat A Vegetable You've Never Tried Before Day

National Dive Bar Day [Also 2nd Friday in April]

National Krimpet Day

National Macaroni Day

National Strawberry Sundae Day

World Chocolate Day

World Day of Cacao

World Mango Day

Independence & Related Days

Adonia (Declared; 2020) [unrecognized]

National Day (Equatorial Guinea)

Solomon Islands (from UK, 1978)

New Year’s Days

Islamic New Year [Hijri New Year]

1st Sunday in July

NAIDOC (National Aboriginal and Islander Day Observance Committee) Week begins (Australia) [1st Sunday]

National Build a Scarecrow Day [1st Sunday]

National Dombyra Day (Kazakhstan) [1st Sunday]

Navy Day (Ukraine) [1st Sunday]

World Biryani Day [1st Sunday]

World Meditation Day [1st Sunday of Every Month]

Weekly Holidays beginning July 7 (2nd Week of July)

Be Nice to New Jersey Week (thru 7.13) [1st Full Week]

Creative Maladjustment Week (thru 7.14)

National Farriers Week (thru 7.13) [1st Full Week]

National Aborigines and Islanders Day Observance Committee Week [Australia] (thru 7.14) [Starts 1st Sunday]

Nude Recreation Day (thru 7.13) [Week after 7.4]

Operation Safe Driver Week (thru 7.13)

Sparkling Wine Week begins [Begins 1st Sunday]

Therapeutic Recreation Week (thru 7.13) [2nd Full Week] (2024 Date]

Festivals Beginning July 7, 2024

Gibson County Fair (Princeton, Indiana) [thru 7.13]

Golden Apricot International Film Festival (Yerevan, Armenia) [thru 7.14]

International Computer Music Conference (Seoul, South Korea) [thru 7.13]

Union Fair & Maine Wild Blueberry Festival (Union, Maine) [thru 7.14]

Wild and Free Festival (Novella, Croatia) [thru 7.11]

Feast Days

Æthelburh of Faremoutiers (Christian; Saint)

Aphrodisia (Bathing festival of Aphrodite & Peitho, goddess of persuasion; Ancient Greece)

Benedict XI, Pope (Christian; Saint)

Cannelloni Day (Pastafarian)

Caprotina (Ancient Roman Female Slave & Servant Festival)

Consualia (Ancient Roman Harvest Festival)

Count the Holes in Your Colander Day (Pastafarian)

Cyril and Methodius (Christian; Saints)

David Eddings (Writerism)

Dog-Lion Beast (Muppetism)

Doris McCarthy (Artology)

Edelburga of Kent (Christian; Saint)

Ethelburga, Ercongota and Sethrida (Christian; Virgins)

Feast of the Milky Way (Chih Nu; China)

Félicien Rops (Artology)

Felix of Nantes (Christian; Saint)

Fernande Sadler (Artology)

Feriae Ancillarum (Old Roman Maid's Day Out)

Fledh Ghoibhnenn (Feast of Goibhniu, Celtic Brewer of the “Beer of Immortality”)

Frances Xavier Cabrini (Canonized; Christian; Saint; 1946)

St. Francis of Assisi (Positivist; Saint)

Geliy Korzhev (Artology)

Hedda, Bishop of the West Saxons (Christian; Saint)

Herbal Infused Honey Day (Starza Pagan Book of Days)

Illidius (Christian; Saint)

Jeff VanderMeer (Writerism)

Job of Maniava (Christian; Saint)

Job of Manyava (Ukrainian Orthodox Church)

Kathy Reichs (Writerism)

Maelruain (Celtic Book of Days)

Marc Chagall (Artology)

Margaret Walker (Writerism)

Millennial Fairy Olympics, Day 2 (Shamanism)

No’man (Muppetism)

Nonae Caprotinae (Nones of the Wild Fig, honoring Juno Caprotina, a.k.a. Festival of the Handmaidens; Ancient Rome)

Nones of July (Ancient Rome)

Palladius (Christian; Saint)

Pantaenus, Father of the Church (Christian; Saint)

Parlia (Festival for the Pales for Larger Animals; God of the Herds; Ancient Rome) [also 4.21]

Robert A. Heinlein (Writerism)

Rumilia (Ancient Rome)

Tanabata (Lovers of the Milky Way; Star Festival; Pagan)

V.E. Schwab (Writerism)

Willibald (Catholic Church)

X-Day (Approximate; Church of the SubGenius)

Islamic Lunar Holidays

Islamic New Year [Hijri New Year] (a.k.a. ... 

Amun Jadid (Philippines)

Arabic New Year

Awal Mouharam (Algeria, Djibouti)

Awal Muharram (Malaysia)

El Hijra (Egypt)

Hegira (Lebanon)

Hegire (Tunisia)

Hejira (Kuwait)

Hijiri (Maldives)

Islamic New Year 1445 (Bahrain, Brunei, Iraq, Jordan, Libya, Oman, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, UAE, West Bank and Gaza, Yemen)

Muharam (Comoros, Niger)

Muharram (Comoros)

1er Moharrem (Morocco)

Premier Moharram (Mauritania)

Raʿs as-Sanah al-Hijrīyah

Sasi Sura (Javanese New Year; Suriname)

She Came to Stay, by Simone de Beauvoir (Novel; 1943)

Tahun Baru (Indonesia)

Tamharrat (Gambia)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Sensho (先勝 Japan) [Good luck in the morning, bad luck in the afternoon.]

Umu Limnu (Evil Day; Babylonian Calendar; 31 of 60)

Premieres

The Adventures of Pinocchio, by Carlo Collodi (Novel; 1881)

The Age of Reason, by Jean-Paul Sartre (Novel; 1945)

All You Need Is Love Day, by The Beatles (Song; 1967)

Back Room Stomp, recorded by Rex Thwart and his 52nd Street Stompers (Song; 1937)

Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea, recorded by Dicky Wells and his Orchestra, with Djano Reinhardt (Song; 1937)

Bugle Call Rag, recorded by Dicky Wells and his Orchestra, with Djano Reinhardt (Song; 1937)

But I’m a Cheerleader (Film; 2000)

Chilly and the Looney Gooney (Chilly Willy Cartoon; 1969)

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream, by Hunter S. Thompson (Novel; 1972)

First Knight (Film; 1995)

Give Peace a Chance, by John Lennon (Song; 1969)

God Save the King, by Ben Jonson and Dr. Bull (UK National Anthem; 1607)

The Grand Illusion, by Styx (Album; 1977)

The Greatest Show on Earth, a.k.a. The Weather Show (Science Rock Cartoon; Schoolhouse Rock; 1979)

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows — Part 2 (UK Film; 2011) [#8]

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (UK Film; 2009) [#6]

Here Comes the Sun recorded, by The Beatles (Song; 1969)

His Mouse Friday (Tom & Jerry Cartoon; 1951)

The Ice Break, by Michael Tippett (Opera; 1976)

Images and Words, by Dream Theater (Album; 1992)

Le Great Dane Robbery (The Inspector Cartoon; 1968)

Lethal Weapon 2 (Film; 1989)

Live and Let Die, by Paul McCartney & Wings (Song; 1973)

Mickey Steps Out (Disney Cartoon; 1931)

Monsters at Work (Animated YV Series; 2021)

More Songs About Buildings and Food, by Talking Heads (Album; 1978)

Mouse in Manhattan (Tom & Jerry Cartoon; 1945)

My Prayer, by The Platters (Song; 1956)

Naked Lunch, by William S. Burroughs (Novel; 1959)

No One Writes to the Colonel, by Gabriel García Márquez (Novella; 1961)

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest (Film; 2006)

Religion and Science, by Bertrand Russell (Essays; 1935)

Ryan’s Hope (Soap Opera; 1975)

Scary Movie (Film; 2000)

Spider-Man: Homecoming (Film; 2017)

Stunt, by Barenaked Ladies (Album; 1998)

Stupor Duck (WB LT Cartoon; 1956)

Summer Magic (Film; 1963)

Three Tenors, by Plácido Domingo, José Carreras and Luciano Pavarotti (Live Album; 1990)

Weekend at Bernie’s (Film; 1989)

Woody Woodpecker (Woody Woodpecker Cartoon; 1941) [1st WW Cartoon]

You Oughta Know, by Alanis Morissette (Song; 1995)

Today’s Name Days

Edda, Firmin, Willibald (Austria)

Nedelcho, Nedelya, Nedyalka, Nedyalko (Bulgaria)

Goran, Klaudije, Odon, Vilibald, Vilko (Croatia)

Bohuslava (Czech Republic)

Villebaldus (Denmark)

Koidu, Koidula (Estonia)

Klaus, Launo (Finland)

Raoul (France)

Edda, Firmin, Willibald (Germany)

Dominica, Cyriaca, Iria, Kiriaki, Kuriakis, Kyriake, Kyriaki, Ria (Greece)

Apollónia (Hungary)

Apollonio, Claudio, Edda (Italy)

Alda, Aline, Elita, Maruta (Latvia)

Estera, Sangailas, Vilgailė (Lithuania)

Håvard, Hulda (Norway)

Antoni, Benedykt, Cyryl, Estera, Kira, Metody, Piotr, Pompejusz, Sędzisława, Wilibald (Poland)

Chiriachi (Romania)

Oliver (Slovakia)

Fermín (Spain)

Klas (Sweden)

Ralph, Randall, Randolph, Randi, Randy, Raoul, Raul, Rogelio, Roger (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 189 of 2024; 177 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 7 of week 27 of 2024

Celtic Tree Calendar: Tinne (Holly) [Day 1 of 28]

Chinese: Month 6 (Xin-Wei), Day 2 (Ren-Shen)

Chinese Year of the: Dragon 4722 (until January 29, 2025) [Wu-Chen]

Hebrew: 1 Tammuz 5784

Islamic: 30 Dhu al-Hijjah 1445

J Cal: 9 Red; Oneday [8 of 30]

Julian: 24 June 2024

Moon: 3%: Waxing Crescent

Positivist: 20 Charlemagne (7th Month) [St. Francis of Assisi]

Runic Half Month: Feoh (Wealth) [Day 14 of 15]

Season: Summer (Day 18 of 94)

Week: 2nd Week of July

Zodiac: Cancer (Day 17 of 31)

Calendar Changes

Tammūz (a.k.a. Tammuz or Tamuz) [תַּמּוּז] (Hebrew Calendar) [Month 4 of 12]

Tinne (Holly) [Celtic Tree Calendar; Month 7 of 13]

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Holidays 7.7

Holidays

Aerial Forest Protection Service Day (Russia)

All You Need Is Love Day

Andean Condor Day

ASB Young People’s Day (UK)

Battle of Chesma Day (Russia)

Bonza Bottler Day

Bungie Day

Cherry Dy (French Republic)

Comic Book Day

Day of Water Transport Workers (Belarus, Russia)

Double Seven Day (China)

Family Day (Lesotho)

Father-Daughter Take A Walk Together Day

Fishermen’s Day (Marshall Islands)

George Town Heritage Day (Penang, Malaysia)

Global Forgiveness Day

International Oola Day

International Peace & Love Day

International Ponytail Day

International Soil Conversation Day

Kharchi Puja (Tripura, India)

Kinderfest (Children’s Day; Switzerland)

LOL Surprise! Day

Medical Worker Day (Kyrgyzstan)

National Black Women in Sports Day

National Day of Rock ’n’ Roll

National Dora Day

National Father-Daughter Take a Walk Day

National Greshun Day

National Hellcat Day

National Koi Day

National Zombie Day

Running of the Bulls begins (Fiesta de San Fermin; Pamplona, Spain) [thru 7.14]

Saba Saba Day (Farmer’s Day; Tanzania)

Serbian Peoples Uprising Day (Yugoslavia)

Seven Deadly Sins Day

707 Day

Seven Seven (UK)

Tanabata (Star Festival; Japan)

Tell the Truth Day

Tribute 7/7 (Texas)

TR-707 Day

Undina Asteroid Day

Unity Factory Day (Yemen)

Vardavar (Armenia)

White-Flowered Bower (a.k.a. Wild Virgin’s Bower)

World Byproduct Day

World Kiswahili Language Day

Food & Drink Celebrations

Eat A Vegetable You've Never Tried Before Day

National Dive Bar Day [Also 2nd Friday in April]

National Krimpet Day

National Macaroni Day

National Strawberry Sundae Day

World Chocolate Day

World Day of Cacao

World Mango Day

Independence & Related Days

Adonia (Declared; 2020) [unrecognized]

National Day (Equatorial Guinea)

Solomon Islands (from UK, 1978)

New Year’s Days

Islamic New Year [Hijri New Year]

1st Sunday in July

NAIDOC (National Aboriginal and Islander Day Observance Committee) Week begins (Australia) [1st Sunday]

National Build a Scarecrow Day [1st Sunday]

National Dombyra Day (Kazakhstan) [1st Sunday]

Navy Day (Ukraine) [1st Sunday]

World Biryani Day [1st Sunday]

World Meditation Day [1st Sunday of Every Month]

Weekly Holidays beginning July 7 (2nd Week of July)

Be Nice to New Jersey Week (thru 7.13) [1st Full Week]

Creative Maladjustment Week (thru 7.14)

National Farriers Week (thru 7.13) [1st Full Week]

National Aborigines and Islanders Day Observance Committee Week [Australia] (thru 7.14) [Starts 1st Sunday]

Nude Recreation Day (thru 7.13) [Week after 7.4]

Operation Safe Driver Week (thru 7.13)

Sparkling Wine Week begins [Begins 1st Sunday]

Therapeutic Recreation Week (thru 7.13) [2nd Full Week] (2024 Date]

Festivals Beginning July 7, 2024

Gibson County Fair (Princeton, Indiana) [thru 7.13]

Golden Apricot International Film Festival (Yerevan, Armenia) [thru 7.14]

International Computer Music Conference (Seoul, South Korea) [thru 7.13]

Union Fair & Maine Wild Blueberry Festival (Union, Maine) [thru 7.14]

Wild and Free Festival (Novella, Croatia) [thru 7.11]

Feast Days

Æthelburh of Faremoutiers (Christian; Saint)

Aphrodisia (Bathing festival of Aphrodite & Peitho, goddess of persuasion; Ancient Greece)

Benedict XI, Pope (Christian; Saint)

Cannelloni Day (Pastafarian)

Caprotina (Ancient Roman Female Slave & Servant Festival)

Consualia (Ancient Roman Harvest Festival)

Count the Holes in Your Colander Day (Pastafarian)

Cyril and Methodius (Christian; Saints)

David Eddings (Writerism)

Dog-Lion Beast (Muppetism)

Doris McCarthy (Artology)

Edelburga of Kent (Christian; Saint)

Ethelburga, Ercongota and Sethrida (Christian; Virgins)

Feast of the Milky Way (Chih Nu; China)

Félicien Rops (Artology)

Felix of Nantes (Christian; Saint)

Fernande Sadler (Artology)

Feriae Ancillarum (Old Roman Maid's Day Out)

Fledh Ghoibhnenn (Feast of Goibhniu, Celtic Brewer of the “Beer of Immortality”)

Frances Xavier Cabrini (Canonized; Christian; Saint; 1946)

St. Francis of Assisi (Positivist; Saint)

Geliy Korzhev (Artology)

Hedda, Bishop of the West Saxons (Christian; Saint)

Herbal Infused Honey Day (Starza Pagan Book of Days)

Illidius (Christian; Saint)

Jeff VanderMeer (Writerism)

Job of Maniava (Christian; Saint)

Job of Manyava (Ukrainian Orthodox Church)

Kathy Reichs (Writerism)

Maelruain (Celtic Book of Days)

Marc Chagall (Artology)

Margaret Walker (Writerism)

Millennial Fairy Olympics, Day 2 (Shamanism)

No’man (Muppetism)

Nonae Caprotinae (Nones of the Wild Fig, honoring Juno Caprotina, a.k.a. Festival of the Handmaidens; Ancient Rome)

Nones of July (Ancient Rome)

Palladius (Christian; Saint)

Pantaenus, Father of the Church (Christian; Saint)

Parlia (Festival for the Pales for Larger Animals; God of the Herds; Ancient Rome) [also 4.21]

Robert A. Heinlein (Writerism)

Rumilia (Ancient Rome)

Tanabata (Lovers of the Milky Way; Star Festival; Pagan)

V.E. Schwab (Writerism)

Willibald (Catholic Church)

X-Day (Approximate; Church of the SubGenius)

Islamic Lunar Holidays

Islamic New Year [Hijri New Year] (a.k.a. ... 

Amun Jadid (Philippines)

Arabic New Year

Awal Mouharam (Algeria, Djibouti)

Awal Muharram (Malaysia)

El Hijra (Egypt)

Hegira (Lebanon)

Hegire (Tunisia)

Hejira (Kuwait)

Hijiri (Maldives)

Islamic New Year 1445 (Bahrain, Brunei, Iraq, Jordan, Libya, Oman, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, UAE, West Bank and Gaza, Yemen)

Muharam (Comoros, Niger)

Muharram (Comoros)

1er Moharrem (Morocco)

Premier Moharram (Mauritania)

Raʿs as-Sanah al-Hijrīyah

Sasi Sura (Javanese New Year; Suriname)

She Came to Stay, by Simone de Beauvoir (Novel; 1943)

Tahun Baru (Indonesia)

Tamharrat (Gambia)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Sensho (先勝 Japan) [Good luck in the morning, bad luck in the afternoon.]

Umu Limnu (Evil Day; Babylonian Calendar; 31 of 60)

Premieres

The Adventures of Pinocchio, by Carlo Collodi (Novel; 1881)

The Age of Reason, by Jean-Paul Sartre (Novel; 1945)

All You Need Is Love Day, by The Beatles (Song; 1967)

Back Room Stomp, recorded by Rex Thwart and his 52nd Street Stompers (Song; 1937)

Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea, recorded by Dicky Wells and his Orchestra, with Djano Reinhardt (Song; 1937)

Bugle Call Rag, recorded by Dicky Wells and his Orchestra, with Djano Reinhardt (Song; 1937)

But I’m a Cheerleader (Film; 2000)

Chilly and the Looney Gooney (Chilly Willy Cartoon; 1969)

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream, by Hunter S. Thompson (Novel; 1972)

First Knight (Film; 1995)

Give Peace a Chance, by John Lennon (Song; 1969)

God Save the King, by Ben Jonson and Dr. Bull (UK National Anthem; 1607)

The Grand Illusion, by Styx (Album; 1977)

The Greatest Show on Earth, a.k.a. The Weather Show (Science Rock Cartoon; Schoolhouse Rock; 1979)

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows — Part 2 (UK Film; 2011) [#8]

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (UK Film; 2009) [#6]

Here Comes the Sun recorded, by The Beatles (Song; 1969)

His Mouse Friday (Tom & Jerry Cartoon; 1951)

The Ice Break, by Michael Tippett (Opera; 1976)

Images and Words, by Dream Theater (Album; 1992)

Le Great Dane Robbery (The Inspector Cartoon; 1968)

Lethal Weapon 2 (Film; 1989)

Live and Let Die, by Paul McCartney & Wings (Song; 1973)

Mickey Steps Out (Disney Cartoon; 1931)

Monsters at Work (Animated YV Series; 2021)

More Songs About Buildings and Food, by Talking Heads (Album; 1978)

Mouse in Manhattan (Tom & Jerry Cartoon; 1945)

My Prayer, by The Platters (Song; 1956)

Naked Lunch, by William S. Burroughs (Novel; 1959)

No One Writes to the Colonel, by Gabriel García Márquez (Novella; 1961)

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest (Film; 2006)

Religion and Science, by Bertrand Russell (Essays; 1935)

Ryan’s Hope (Soap Opera; 1975)

Scary Movie (Film; 2000)

Spider-Man: Homecoming (Film; 2017)

Stunt, by Barenaked Ladies (Album; 1998)

Stupor Duck (WB LT Cartoon; 1956)

Summer Magic (Film; 1963)

Three Tenors, by Plácido Domingo, José Carreras and Luciano Pavarotti (Live Album; 1990)

Weekend at Bernie’s (Film; 1989)

Woody Woodpecker (Woody Woodpecker Cartoon; 1941) [1st WW Cartoon]

You Oughta Know, by Alanis Morissette (Song; 1995)

Today’s Name Days

Edda, Firmin, Willibald (Austria)

Nedelcho, Nedelya, Nedyalka, Nedyalko (Bulgaria)

Goran, Klaudije, Odon, Vilibald, Vilko (Croatia)

Bohuslava (Czech Republic)

Villebaldus (Denmark)

Koidu, Koidula (Estonia)

Klaus, Launo (Finland)

Raoul (France)

Edda, Firmin, Willibald (Germany)

Dominica, Cyriaca, Iria, Kiriaki, Kuriakis, Kyriake, Kyriaki, Ria (Greece)

Apollónia (Hungary)

Apollonio, Claudio, Edda (Italy)

Alda, Aline, Elita, Maruta (Latvia)

Estera, Sangailas, Vilgailė (Lithuania)

Håvard, Hulda (Norway)

Antoni, Benedykt, Cyryl, Estera, Kira, Metody, Piotr, Pompejusz, Sędzisława, Wilibald (Poland)

Chiriachi (Romania)

Oliver (Slovakia)

Fermín (Spain)

Klas (Sweden)

Ralph, Randall, Randolph, Randi, Randy, Raoul, Raul, Rogelio, Roger (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 189 of 2024; 177 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 7 of week 27 of 2024

Celtic Tree Calendar: Tinne (Holly) [Day 1 of 28]

Chinese: Month 6 (Xin-Wei), Day 2 (Ren-Shen)

Chinese Year of the: Dragon 4722 (until January 29, 2025) [Wu-Chen]

Hebrew: 1 Tammuz 5784

Islamic: 30 Dhu al-Hijjah 1445

J Cal: 9 Red; Oneday [8 of 30]

Julian: 24 June 2024

Moon: 3%: Waxing Crescent

Positivist: 20 Charlemagne (7th Month) [St. Francis of Assisi]

Runic Half Month: Feoh (Wealth) [Day 14 of 15]

Season: Summer (Day 18 of 94)

Week: 2nd Week of July

Zodiac: Cancer (Day 17 of 31)

Calendar Changes

Tammūz (a.k.a. Tammuz or Tamuz) [תַּמּוּז] (Hebrew Calendar) [Month 4 of 12]

Tinne (Holly) [Celtic Tree Calendar; Month 7 of 13]

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StFrances Xavier Cabrini

St Teresa Benedicta of the Cross

St Josephine Bakhita

St Katharine Drexel

St Gianna Molla

St Josemaria Escriva

oh ho ho another FABULOUS set of modern saints!

ALL OF THEM ARE NEW TO THE LIST!! Keep voting for your favorite ones if they'll make it to the modern bracket!

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Dementia Care Seminar Designed for Caregivers

United Way Hernando Hosts Semi-Annual Event in March Dementia Care Seminar Designed for Caregivers United Way of Hernando County will be hosting their Semi-Annual Dementia Care Seminar on Wednesday, March 13, 2024 from 9:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m. at St. Frances Cabrini Church in Xavier Hall - 5030 Mariner Blvd, Spring Hill, FL 34609. This free seminar is for families and caregivers focusing on loved ones with Alzheimer’s or Dementia. This highly anticipated community event typically takes place once a year in the fall, however, due to the high demand for caregiver support services, United Way of Hernando will now host their Dementia Care Seminar twice a year to ensure that resources and support is provided for families living and caring for loved ones with Alzheimer’s or Dementia. Caring for someone with dementia can be challenging, and this seminar aims to provide caregivers with the knowledge, resources, and support they need to navigate this journey. Whether you are a family member, friend, or professional caregiver, this seminar is designed to equip you with valuable insights and strategies to enhance the quality of care for individuals living with dementia. Thanks to United Way’s Partners in Health, HCA Florida Oak Hill Hospital and Oak Hill Senior Living, a free breakfast and lunch will be provided. United Way encourages caregivers to join us and hear from a lineup of expert speakers who will cover a wide range of topics, including understanding dementia, effective communication techniques, managing challenging behaviors, self-care for caregivers, and accessing community resources. Guest speakers will include: Gary Joseph Leblanc, Dementia Spotlight Foundation, focusing on Dementia Education; Dr. Lauren Dedea, M.D., Dedea M.D Family Medicine, focusing on Primary Care; Christian Smith, Mortellaro Law, focusing on Estate Planning. Attendees will have the opportunity to engage in interactive discussions, ask questions, and connect with other caregivers facing similar challenges. "We understand the unique needs and demands that caregivers face when caring for someone with dementia," said Angie B. Walasek, Executive Director at United Way of Hernando County. "Our goal is to provide a supportive environment filled with health vendors where caregivers can learn, share experiences, and find the resources they need to provide the best possible care for their loved ones." Often times, caregivers forget to care for themselves. It is important caregivers of all ages have a community behind them reminding them they are not alone. This seminar is open to all caregivers in the community and is free of charge, thanks to the generous support of our sponsors. However, pre-registration is required as seating is limited. Attendees must RSVP to reserve their spot by visiting www.UnitedWayHernando.org/dementia-spring2024, calling the UW office at 352-688-2026, or by emailing Care@UnitedWayHernando.org. On-site respite care will be provided at this event by Always Near Home Care (please indicate your need when registering). This health initiative is proudly supported by United Way of Hernando County, Dementia Spotlight Foundation, Oak Hill Senior Living, and HCA Florida Oak Hill Hospital. United Way of Hernando County, Inc.:United Way of Hernando County (UWHC) was established as a 501c3 organization in 1987, and since then has continuously focused on creating partnerships and mobilizing our community to seek sustainable solutions to some of the most pressing local needs.  UWHC strategically allocates Community Investment Funds in Health, Education, & Financial Stability programs with proven results and local impact. UWHC works hard to balance the growing demand for basic services such as food, utilities, and rent assistance, with our ongoing commitment to tackling the underlying causes of complex issues. United Way partners with businesses and organizations that share our vision for improving lives through the power of collective impact and working together. Our support for long-term commitments are essential to addressing key social issues, such as helping children, youth, adults & elders, encouraging health and wellness, including physical and emotional care, promoting financial stability and self-sufficiency, and crisis intervention. For more information on how YOU can LIVE UNITED, visit www.UnitedWayHernando.org. Read the full article

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SAINT OF THE DAY (November 13)

On November 13, the universal Church honors St. Frances Xavier Cabrini, an Italian missionary who spent much of her life working with Italian immigrants in the United States.

Mother Cabrini, who had a deathly fear of water and drowning, crossed the Atlantic Ocean more than 30 times in service of the Church and the people she was serving.

St. Frances Cabrini, from a young age, longed to be a missionary in China, but God had other plans for her.

Orphaned in Italy before she was 18, she joined the Sisters of the Sacred Heart and took on the name “Xavier” in honor of St. Francis Xavier, the great missionary to the Orient.

At the advice of Pope Leo XIII, who told her “Not to the East, but to the West,” she focused her missionary efforts on the United States.

Accepting Archbishop Corrigan of New York's invitation, she came to America and spent nearly 30 years traveling back and forth across the Atlantic Ocean as well as around the United States setting up orphanages, hospitals, convents, and schools for the often marginalized Italian immigrants.

Eventually, St. Frances became a naturalized U.S. citizen. She died in 1917 and was canonized in 1946, just before a new wave of immigrants began to arrive in the U.S.

St. Frances Cabrini is the patron of immigrants.

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SAINTS DECEMBER 22

St. Chaeromon, Roman Catholic Bishop of Nilopolis, in Egypt. When the persecution was instituted by Emperor Trajanus Decius, Chaeromon Was quite elderly. He and several companions fled into the Arabian desert and were never seen again. The bishop and his companions are listed as martyrs. Feastday Dec. 22

ST. FRANCESCA SAVERIO CABRINI, VIRGIN, FOUNDRESS OF THE MISSIONARIES OF THE SACRED HEART OF JESUS. Pope Francis has described St Frances Xavier Cabrini as a woman who understood that the modern world would be marked by people fleeing their homes in search of peace, and that these were the people she wished to take care of. The Church remembers her on December 22nd as the patron saint of migrants. https://www.vaticannews.va/en/saints/12/22/st--francesca-saverio-cabrini--virgin--foundress-of-the--mission.html