"Just the Facts" for Sunday, November 19, 2006

Today is the 33rd Sunday in Ordinary Time - the last Sunday in Ordinary Time. Next week is the Feast of Christ the King. Advent begins the following Sunday.

On this day...

In Church History
St. Hilarus was consecrated Pope in 461.

In U.S. History
In 1863 - United States President Lincoln delivered his Gettysburg Address as he dedicated a national cemetery at the site of the Civil War battlefield in Pennsylvania.

In 1969 - Apollo 12 astronauts Charles Conrad and Alan Bean made man's second landing on the moon.

In 2001 - U.S. President George W. Bush signed the most comprehensive air security bill in U.S. history.

Today is the birthday of ...
Kathleen Quinlan 1954
Meg Ryan 1961
Jodie Foster 1962

Scripture Quote of the Day:"What a man sows, he reaps. If he sows in the field of self-indulgence he will get a harvest of corruption out of it; if he sows in the field of the Spirit he will get from it a harvest of eternal life."

~ Galatians 6:7 - 8

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