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· do a personal eucharistic stations of the cross.
· Bucket List: Military Hop
· Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam PASSENGER TERMINAL
o 🏖️ Oahu
o Hale Koa Hotel (Waikiki) – Full-scale Armed Forces Recreation Center
🔗 halekoa.com
o Bellows Air Force Station (Waimānalo) – Beachfront cabins and camping
🔗 bellowsafs.com
o Pililaau Army Recreation Center (Waianae) – Beach cottages and RV sites
🔗 Pililaau PARC info
o Barbers Point Beach Cottages (Kapolei) – Oceanfront lodging
🔗 Barbers Point info
o Marine Corps Base Hawaii – Kaneohe Bay – Cottages, cabanas, and campsites
🔗 MCBH Lodging
o Hickam Harbor Recreation Area (Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam) – Waterfront access and lodging
🔗 Hickam Harbor info
o 🌋 Big Island
o Kilauea Military Camp (Volcano National Park) – Lodging inside the park
🔗HOT HOT HOT
o 🌴 Kauai
o Pacific Missile Range Facility – Barking Sands Beach Cottages
🔗 Barking Sands info
o 🧭 Planning Resource
o Poppin’ Smoke – Military Lodging Guide for Hawaii
🔗 poppinsmoke.com/hawaii-military-resorts-recreational-lodging
· Foodie:
o Start your day with a hearty breakfast of Weeta-Bix to fuel up for the adventures ahead. Consider sharing this nutritious meal with your parents to kick off a day filled with surprises and laughter.
§ Throughout the day, remember to prioritize your health and well-being. Take a brisk walk to support World Food Day and appreciate the nourishment that food provides.
· Spirit Hour:
o In the spirit of National Liqueur Day, mix up a signature cocktail or sample a new liqueur at home. You don’t need to break the bank to enjoy a fancy drink – get creative with what you have on hand! Cap off your day of festivities by honoring the legacy of Steve Jobs. Take a moment to reflect on his innovative spirit and how it can inspire your own creativity and ambition.
§ Make some Autumn Tea with a kick
· How to celebrate Oct 16th
· Show your boss some appreciation on Boss’ Day by taking on an extra task or offering to help with a project. Small gestures can go a long way in strengthening your professional relationships. While you’re at it, why not swing by a department store to treat yourself to a little something special? You deserve it!
· Consider scheduling a chiropractic appointment for World Spine Day to take care of your physical wellness.
Best Place to visit in October:
Cuyahoga Valley National Park, Ohio[5]
- I’m a big fan of this stunning, lesser-known gem nestled between the cities of Akron and Cleveland, located along the scenic banks of the Cuyahoga River!
- In my view, the scenery here is beautiful and is filled with rolling hills covered in thick forests, pretty waterfalls and calm, slow-flowing rivers.
- The park is especially stunning in the fall and I loved seeing the breathtaking foliage views from the Ledges Overlook (which can be reached via the Ledges Hiking Trail).
- Do what I did and take advantage of the well-marked hiking trails, visiting the quaint Szlays Sweet Corn and Farmers Market, taking a ride on the family-friendly The Cuyahoga Valley Scenic Railway and seeing the magnificent Brandywine falls.
Address: 7104 Canal Rd, Cleveland, OH 44125
Average temperature – 55 to 65
- My personal highlights…
- Biking the scenic Towpath Trail – I loved seeing old canal locks, deer and herons!
- Checking out the local produce at Cuyahoga Valley Farmers’ Market. I recommend trying the delicious Silver Bee Honey!
- Taking Instagram-worthy shots of the gorgeous fall foliage at the Tinkers Creek Gorge Scenic Overlook.
Thursday Feast
Thursday is the day of the week that our Lord gave himself up for consumption. Thursday commemorates the last supper. Some theologians believe after Sunday Thursday is the holiest day of the week. We should then try to make this day special by making a visit to the blessed sacrament chapel, Mass or even stopping by the grave of a loved one. Why not plan to count the blessing of the week and thank our Lord. Plan a special meal. Be at Peace.
- Moscow mule
- Connecticut Beef Supper
- White Bean Soup with Escarole
- Savory Potato Skins
- Creamy Strawberry Crepes
Day 16 unfolds with a luminous witness of interfaith solidarity and sacrificial tolerance—the Four Chaplains of the SS Dorchester. From mercy as dwelling, we now turn to tolerance as shared sacrifice: a virtue not of mere acceptance, but of communion in crisis.
🌊 Leafing the World Behind: Day 16
Witness: The Four Chaplains of the SS Dorchester
Theme: Tolerance as Shared Sacrifice
Virtue: Tolerance
Virtue Connection: Unity in Diversity
Symbolic Act: Share a moment of silence or prayer with someone of a different background. Offer a gesture of solidarity across difference.
Location: A threshold, a chapel, a shoreline—any place where lives meet and differences dissolve.
🕊️ Introduction: On Tolerance
Tolerance is not passive—it is active love across difference.
It is not agreement—it is accompaniment.
To leaf the world behind is to release the need to be right, and choose instead to be present.
Today, we do not argue—we embrace.
Tolerance, in this rhythm, is not compromise—it is communion.
It is the courage to link arms with those we do not fully understand, and say: “We go together.”
🌺 Witness of the Day: The Four Chaplains
On February 3, 1943, the SS Dorchester was torpedoed in icy waters.
As chaos erupted, four military chaplains—Jewish, Catholic, Methodist, and Dutch Reformed—offered life jackets, prayers, and peace.
They gave away their own gear. They calmed the terrified.
And when the last lifeboat was gone, they linked arms, prayed aloud, and sank together.
Their names:
- Lt. George L. Fox (Methodist)
- Lt. Alexander D. Goode (Jewish)
- Lt. John P. Washington (Catholic)
- Lt. Clark V. Poling (Dutch Reformed)
They remind us:
Tolerance is not mere coexistence—it is shared sacrifice.
It is the courage to die together, so others may live.
🛡️ Virtue Connection: Unity in Diversity
Tolerance endures when unity costs something.
It does not erase difference—it honors it.
The Four Chaplains did not dilute their faiths—they deepened them through solidarity.
They did not preach sameness—they practiced communion.
They remind us:
Tolerance without sacrifice becomes sentiment.
But tolerance with sacrifice becomes sanctity.
🕯️ Symbolic Act: Link Arms Across Difference
Find someone whose background differs from yours.
Share a moment of silence, a prayer, or a gesture of peace.
Let it be a sacrament of solidarity, not spectacle.
As you act, say:
“Lord, let my tolerance be courage.
Let my courage be communion.
Let my communion be peace.”
If no one is near, pray for those divided by creed, race, or nation.
Let your prayer be a lifeboat.
🔥 Reflection Prompt
Where have you resisted difference?
What fear has kept you from linking arms?
Can you name one person whose tolerance saved you—not by agreement, but by presence?
Write, walk, or pray with these questions.
Let the Four Chaplains remind you:
Tolerance is not weakness—it is witness.
It is the strength to stand together, the grace to die together, the love to remain together.
OCTOBER 16 Thursday
Margaret Mary Alacoque-World
Food Day
Romans, Chapter 1, Verse
5-7
Through
him we have received the grace of apostleship, to bring about the obedience of
faith, for the sake of his name, among all the Gentiles, among
whom are you also, who are called to belong to Jesus Christ; to all the beloved of God in Rome, called to be holy. Grace
to you and PEACE from God our Father
and the Lord Jesus Christ.
The Romans, through the Caesars, sought peace
among men by the liberal use of the displays of power and majesty, using fear
as a tool for total control and subjugation. This was the Pax Romana. Christ,
the son of God, by His sacrifice showed the Romans another way; the true way
via the church and the Precious Blood to obtain a far greater peace; peace with
God and finally peace with our selves. This is the triumph of the Cross.
As a parent we can be more effective if we
remember that using fear as a tool to total control and subjugation is not the
way of Christ.
RULES for parents[1]
Bear in mind the following:
1.
A little child kicks and screams because he
thinks, —or perhaps because he knows from experience, —that in order to avoid a
scene you will give in to him and let him have what he wants. You must prove to
him that this is a mistaken idea of his. You are not going to give in.
2.
Do not get angry. Do not slap.
3.
Say firmly, "No; when you stop screaming,
I will speak to you." Then leave the child alone in a safe room. Or, if he
must be in the room with you, do not notice him. Keep busy with something or
other.
4.
After a while, say quietly, "Little Jesus
does not like screaming and kicking. He loves you and He does not want you to
do that."
5.
Stop. Keep quiet. Be patient.
6.
If the child slows down at times, waits to see
if you will give in, and then starts up again, do not worry. He is showing that
he begins to understand. Ignore him. Finally, he will yield. He may fall
asleep.
7.
Two or three performances like this will end
the bad habit and establish a good one
8.
Remember: Be gentle; but be firm and
consistent. Remain very calm and silent.
St. Margaret Mary Alacoque[2]
A self-effacing nun in the Visitation Convent at Paray-le-Monial,
France, was inspired by the Lord Jesus to establish the devotion of the Holy
Hour. Her name was St. Margaret Mary Alacoque, and from the age of seven, when
she received her first Holy Communion, she had always manifested an intense
love of the Most Blessed Sacrament. Our Lord appeared to her often, usually as
the Crucified Christ. Her simplicity caused her to feel that these apparitions
were also granted to others who had recourse to Jesus in the sacrament of His
love. Once the Master appeared to the young girl as she was returning from a
dance and reproached her for not espousing Him. When twenty-four years of age,
Margaret entered the cloister, choosing the most menial tasks. Gifted with intelligence
and common sense, she made great progress in holiness. Our Lord entrusted to
her the mission of establishing the reign of the Sacred Heart among the
children of men. Criticism did not hamper her zeal, and her charity toward her
opponents won them over to the cause of the Master. In the first revelation of
the Sacred Heart to the nun, Our Lord made known His burning desire to be loved
by all men, and His design of manifesting to them His Sacred Heart with its
treasures of mercy. Margaret Mary communicated Our Lord's wish that the
faithful receive Holy Communion on the first Friday of each month and observe
the Feast of the Sacred Heart on the Friday after the octave of Corpus Christi.
After nineteen years in the convent, St. Margaret Mary died October 17, 1690.
Many pilgrims to her tomb have sought and obtained favors. Through her
apostolate of devotion to the Sacred Heart many sinners have repented and found
grace with God.
Patron: against polio; devotees of
the Sacred Heart; loss of parents; polio patients.
Things to Do:
- Learn more
about St. Margaret Mary:
- St. Margaret
Mary's body is laid to rest at Chapelle
des Apparitions
(Chapel of the Apparitions) at Paray-la-Monial, France, which is also the
church where she received the visions of the Sacred Heart of Jesus.
- Find out more
about the Jansenist
heresy.
- Read the Twelve
Promises of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. Accept the challenge to
fulfill the obligation for the Nine First Fridays.
- Find
out more about the Enthronement of the Sacred Heart, and establish this
practice in your home. A book to read on this is Enthronement of the
Sacred Heart by Francis Larkin, SS.CC. Find out more information from Congregation of the Sacred Hearts
Online.
Married Couples
Prayer to the Sacred Heart[3]*
Description:
For
the ideal union in love of husband for wife and wife for husband, God's
examples are before you—Joseph and Mary. Your marriage is something to be
appreciated ever more deeply. From time to time meditate on its precious
character, as, for example, is suggested in the following prayer to the Sacred
Heart of Jesus for husband and wife to say in their own behalf. We can
summarize the spirit of Christian married life no better than in this prayer.
Prayer
O
most Sacred Heart of Jesus, King and center of all hearts, dwell in our hearts
and be our King; grant us by Your grace to love each other truly and chastely,
even as You have loved Your spotless Bride, the Church, and have given Yourself
up for her.
Bestow
upon us that mutual love and Christian forbearance which are so highly
acceptable in Your sight, and a mutual patience in bearing each other's
defects; for we are certain that no living creature is free from them. Do not
permit even the slightest defect to mar that full and gentle harmony of spirit,
the foundation of the mutual assistance in the many and varied hardships of
life, that is the end for which woman was created and united inseparably to her
husband.
**
O Lord God, grant that between us there may reign a perpetual holy rivalry
toward a life perfectly Christian, by virtue of which there may shine forth
more and more clearly the divine image of Your mystic union with Your Holy
Church, as You have deigned to imprint it upon us on the auspicious day of our
being made one.
Grant,
we beseech You, that our good example of Christian living may serve as a
powerful inspiration to our children to conform their own lives to Your holy
law; and finally, after this exile may we ascend into heaven, where by the help
of Your grace, for which we earnestly pray, we may merit to be joined with our
children forever and praise and bless You through everlasting ages, Amen.
(**If
there are no children, the prayer from this point reads: O Lord God, grant that
between us there may reign a perpetual holy rivalry toward a life perfectly
Christian, by virtue of which there may shine forth more and more clearly the
divine image of Your mystic union with Your Holy Church, as You have deigned to
imprint it upon us on the auspicious day of our being made one, and so living,
may both of us ascend into heaven, and merit to praise You and bless You
forever. Amen.)
Prayer Source: Family for Families, The by Francis L. Filas, S.J., The Bruce Publishing Company, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 1947
Bible in a
Year Day 103 Judas' Secrecy
Fr. Mike points out the secrecy in Judas' life, and highlights Jesus' words of
conviction to the disciples before his death on the cross. He also explains how
important it is to bring Jesus into our temptation, and to not hide our hearts
from him like Judas did. Today's readings are John 13-15 and Proverbs 6:6-11.
World Food Day[4]
World Food Day is recognized in order to raise awareness about hunger and encourage the public to support efforts to eradicate world hunger. Food plays an essential role in life; many people go without it and cannot guarantee when they will eat their next meal, while others waste large amounts of food every day. World Food Day is organized by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations. The FAO was founded on October 16, 1945 in an effort to help the world with its constant battle against hunger and malnutrition. World Food Day was officially established in 1979 and today, it is observed in over 150 countries. It is celebrated annually on the same day as the FAO's founding, October 16th. Since 1981, a different theme has been adopted each year based on current issues. The day is also heavily promoted by organizations that are concerned with food security and insecurity.
World
Food Day Facts & Quotes
·
Approximately 1/3 of all food produced
worldwide, about $1 trillion dollars’ worth, is wasted. The biggest
culprits are industrialized countries; they waste almost as much food as the
entire production weight of sub-Saharan Africa- 222 million vs 230 million
tons.
·
The quest for food security can be the
common thread that links the different challenges we face and helps build a
sustainable future. – José Graziano da Silva, United Nations Food and
Agriculture Organization (FAO) Director-General
·
In a world of plenty, no one, not a
single person, should go hungry. But almost 1 billion still do not have enough
to eat. I want to see an end to hunger everywhere within my lifetime. – Ban
Ki-Moon, United Nations Secretary-General
World
Food Day Top Events and Things to Do
·
Do
not waste food. World Food Day promotes Think. Eat. Save. as a way to reduce
waste so, t=Think about what you’re buying, plan meals and shop smart. Eat
mindfully. Are your eyes too big for your stomach? Save food, save money, save
the environment.
·
Lobby
your government to change its laws on waste. France passed a law banning
supermarkets from throwing away destroying unsold food, instead making them
donate it to charities and food banks.
·
Watch
a documentary about the food production process. Food Inc. (2008), Super-Size
Me (2004) or Fresh (2009) are all
documentaries about food production and waste.
·
Read
a book about food activism, eco- and ethical farming why
not try one of these books that may help us find sustainable solutions to feed
the 9.6 billion people that will to be fed by 2050. Our picks:
1) The Big Pivot: Radically Practical
Strategies for a Hotter, Scarcer, and More Open World by Andrew S Winston
2) Feeding Frenzy: Land Grabs, Price
Spikes, and the World Food Crisis by Paul McMahon
3) The Political Economy of Arab Food
Sovereignt by Jane Harrigan
Daily
Devotions
·
Unite
in the work of the Porters of St.
Joseph
by joining them in fasting: Today's Fast: For the Poor and
Suffering
·
Religion
in the Home for Preschool: October
·
Litany of the Most Precious Blood
of Jesus
·
Offering to the sacred heart of Jesus
·
Rosary
*
Note: My youngest daughter Nicole married her loving husband Matthew on this
past Sunday 10/11/20; this is for them.
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