October 14, 2022
🙏🏼 VERSE OF THE WEEK
Jesus said: “I am the gate. Whoever enters through me will be saved, and will come in and go out and find pasture.”
John 10:9
🐧 GREETINGS
Hello and happy Friday!
Hope you are enjoying the fall season as much as I am. This is the first fall season I have lived in West Virginia, and the fall leaves absolutely take my breath away. It’s like it getting more amazing and beautiful every day. This week the NHL regular season started - I’m a big fan of hockey, so my evenings will be full for the next several months. Check out the lineup here.
In honor of October being the Month of the Holy Rosary, I found this really wonderful novena to pray titled the Mary, Undoer of Knots Novena. I will be starting this tomorrow.
As I said before, if you have any suggestions or ideas for improvement of my newsletter, I would love to hear them. Also please subscribe and forward this to any friends you think would enjoy this as well. Thank you for reading!
🏒 If you need me I’ll be watching hockey.
Pax et Bonum,
Krista
PS There’s a penguin post office on Goudier Island, Antarctica. It is the southernmost post office in the world, where the four career opportunities are base leader, postmaster, shop manager, and penguin counter. There is also a gift shop that receives up to 18,000 visitors during the season, not of the penguin variety.
PPS Check out the year’s best wildlife photos.
🗞️ NEWS
🛻 Rivian Automotive
Electric vehicle manufacturer, Rivian Automotive, has issued a voluntary recall on almost all of the vehicles they have produced so far this year, 13,000 out of a total of 14,317. The recall is due to a possible issue of a loose fastener. The CEO of Rivian, RJ Scaringe stated that “in rare circumstances, the nut could loosen fully”, and urged customers to take caution if they experienced any issues.
The company lost more than $2 billion dollars in market value on Monday following the announcement.
🏚️ Hurricane Ian
Hurricane Ian caused an estimated $53 to $74 billion dollars in insurance losses from Florida to the Carolinas. These preliminary estimates would make Hurricane Ian the costliest storm in Florida history and the second nationally to Hurricane Katrina when adjusted for inflation.
Maps and video detailing the destruction
🍎 New York City
The Mayor of NYC, Eric Adams, declared a state of emergency in response to the huge influx of migrants that are arriving in the city. Adams stated the city’s shelters are running out of space with more than 61,000 homeless and migrants in its housing systems. 20,000 of those are children, and 1/5 are migrants. The city has also enrolled 5,500 recently arrived migrant children into public schools. Currently, 40 hotels have been converted into makeshift shelters with a plan to set up a tent city on Randall’s Island. The city is expected to spend $1B this fiscal year to handle the continued arrival of migrants.
🐂 UPCOMING IMPORTANT DATES
October 15 - Memorial of St. Teresa of Jesus
October 17 - Memorial of St Ignatius of Antioch
October 18 - Feast of St Luke*
October 18 - National Prayer Day
October 20 - St Paul of the Cross
October 18th is the Feast of St. Luke. St. Luke the evangelist is believed to have been a gentile Greek. He was an early convert to Christianity after the death of Jesus, a disciple of St. Paul, and the author of the Gospel of St. Luke and the Acts of the Apostles. He is the only gentile author of the Bible. His symbol as an evangelist is a winged ox.
He was a physician and an artist, and tradition says he was the first painter of icons, and, specifically, that he was the painter of the very first icon, one of Our Lady.
St. Luke Painting the Virgin, Giorgio Vasari, c. 1565
On his feast day, pray one of the beautiful canticles he preserved for us: the Magnificat (Our Lady to St. Elizabeth), the Benedictus, and the Nunc Dimittis.
🌋 THIS WEEK IN HISTORY
October 14, 530
Dioscorus ends his reign as Catholic anti-Pope
October 15, 1582
Gregorian calendar was introduced in Spain, Portugal, and pontifical states, after skipping 10 days after October 4th to sync the new calendar
October 17, 79
Mt. Vesuvius erupts, burying the cities of Pompeii, Herculaneum, Oplontis, and Stabiae; killing thousands
October 18, 1009
The Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem is destroyed by the Fatimid caliph Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah, who hacks the Church’s foundations down to the bedrock
October 19, 1216
King John of England dies at Newark-on-Trent and is succeeded by his nine-year-old son, Henry III
👓 FUN FACTS
Over 40% of Americans are near-sighted, up from 25% in 1971.
🪖 QUOTE
“This aligns with Josephus’ account that Titus commanded to penetrate the city from the northwestern side of the city wall.”
Archaeologist Kfir Arbiv describes the 2,000-year-old Roman ballistics found during an excavation in Jerusalem. Arbiv claims this demonstrates the veracity of Josephus’s narrative that recalled the Second Temple battle that took place in 70 AD.
“The Temple was destroyed in 70 CE, after a four-month siege and an intensive battle led by the Roman general Titus in order to conquer the city and suppress the revolt initiated by the Jews four years earlier. The Romans had a well-trained massive army, equipped with the best military innovations of their day. It was a ruthless war machine.”
🛋️ READ
Great list of 31 Things by Claire Swinarski
🎧 LISTEN
The Lampstand: God’s Vision for the Family podcast episode titled Mary: The First Christian featuring Dr. Joseph Atkinson. Dr. Atkinson is an associate professor of sacred scripture at John Paul II Institute in Washington DC. In the episode, they discuss Mary’s unique and pivotal role in the faith. The conversation illuminates ways to better understand Mary's role and help us all go to Mary more often so that she can bring us closer to Jesus.
🦖 OFF-TOPIC
👋🏼 CLOSING
Thank you for reading! I hope you enjoyed today’s issue.
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Thanks again!
Krista