#Saint Andrew Kim Taegon

[thepastisalreadywritten]

SAINTS OF THE DAY (September 20)

Pope John Paul II said this of the Catholic Church in Korea:

"The Korean Church is unique because it was founded entirely by laypeople. This fledgling Church, so young and yet so strong in faith, withstood wave after wave of fierce persecution.

Thus, in less than a century, it could boast 10,000 martyrs. The years 1791, 1801, 1827, 1839, 1846, and 1866 are forever signed with the holy blood of your martyrs and engraved in your hearts.

The death of these many martyrs became the leaven of the Church and led to today's splendid flowering of the Church in Korea.

Even today, their undying spirit sustains the Christians of the Church of Silence in the north of this tragically divided land."

Christianity came to Korea through Christian books, which had been brought across the border from China.

In 1784, the small community of Koreans who had been converted through what they read in the books sent one of their own to Beijing to receive baptism.

In the next half century, the rapidly growing Christian community of Korea was sustained in the Sacraments by only two priests from China until 1836 when, after years of pleading, a group of French missionary priests were sent to Korea.

These priests all numbered among the martyrs.

At the end of the 18th century and throughout the next, there were six great waves of persecution in which 10,000 martyrs shed their blood for the faith.

Saints Andrew Kim Taegon and Paul Chong Hasañg were leaders of the Catholic Church in Korea.

Andrew Kim Taegon was born on 21 August 1821 to Korean nobility. His parents converted when he was 15-years old.

He traveled over 1,000 miles to study in a seminary and became the first native Korean priest.

He was tortured and beheaded on 16 September 1846 near Seoul on the Han River. 

He was beatified on 11 September 1925.

Paul Choñg Hasang was born in 1795 in Mahyon, Kyonggi Province, Korea.

He came from a family of noble scholars that were dedicated to the Catholic faith and its growth in Korea.

He was a Catholic lay leader who defended the faith before the government of Korea and reunited the Christians in the midst of the persecutions, encouraging them to stay strong in the faith.

In response to his direct appeals, Pope Gregory X confirmed the validity of the Korean Church and sent more priests to Korea.

Paul was martyred on 22 September 1839.

He was beatified by Pope Pius XI on 6 June 1925.

The Korean Martyrs are commemorated by the Roman Catholic Church with a memorial on September 20.

103 of them, including Taegon and Hasang, were canonized by Pope John Paul II on 6 May 1984.

[waltz-in-code]

Loving these posters of the St. Andrew Kim Taegon movie!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[ynhart]

Soo in Korea, korean catholics have this tradition of adopting a baptismal name as a second name. And it's normally after a saint so when you meet a korean catholic they would casually introduce themselves as their baptismal name. One time there was one whose name was literally APOSTLE PAUL. Like not just "Paul" but "APOSTLE PAUL"

[helloparkerrose]

[catholicpriestmedia]

"Saints Andrew Kim Taegon, Paul Chong Hasang, and Companions Pray for Us!" #SaintsoftheDay

📷 Traditional Painting of Saint Andrew Kim Taegon. #Catholic_Priest #CatholicPriestMedia #CanvaPro

[roman-catholic-mass-readings]

20th September >> Mass Readings (USA)

Saints Andrew Kim Taegon, Priest, and Paul Chong Hasang, and their Companions, Martyrs 

on

Friday, Twenty Fourth Week in Ordinary Time.

Friday, Twenty Fourth Week in Ordinary Time

(Liturgical Colour: Red. Year: B(II))

(Readings for the feria (Friday))

(There is a choice today between the readings for the ferial day (Friday) and those for the memorial. The ferial readings are recommended unless pastoral reasons suggest otherwise)

First Reading 1 Corinthians 15:12-20 If Christ has not been raised, your faith is vain.

Brothers and sisters: If Christ is preached as raised from the dead, how can some among you say there is no resurrection of the dead? If there is no resurrection of the dead, then neither has Christ been raised. And if Christ has not been raised, then empty too is our preaching; empty, too, your faith. Then we are also false witnesses to God, because we testified against God that he raised Christ, whom he did not raise if in fact the dead are not raised. For if the dead are not raised, neither has Christ been raised, and if Christ has not been raised, your faith is vain; you are still in your sins. Then those who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished. If for this life only we have hoped in Christ, we are the most pitiable people of all. But now Christ has been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep.

The Word of the Lord

R/ Thanks be to God.

Responsorial Psalm Psalm 17:1bcd, 6-7, 8b and 15

R/ Lord, when your glory appears, my joy will be full.

Hear, O LORD, a just suit; attend to my outcry; hearken to my prayer from lips without deceit.

R/ Lord, when your glory appears, my joy will be full.

I call upon you, for you will answer me, O God; incline your ear to me; hear my word. Show your wondrous mercies, O savior of those who flee from their foes to refuge at your right hand.

R/ Lord, when your glory appears, my joy will be full.

Hide me in the shadow of your wings, But I in justice shall behold your face; on waking, I shall be content in your presence.

R/ Lord, when your glory appears, my joy will be full.

Gospel Acclamation cf. Matthew 11:25

Alleluia, alleluia. Blessed are you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth; you have revealed to little ones the mysteries of the Kingdom. Alleluia, alleluia.

Gospel Luke 8:1-3 Accompanying them were some women, who provided for them out of their resources.

Jesus journeyed from one town and village to another, preaching and proclaiming the good news of the Kingdom of God. Accompanying him were the Twelve and some women who had been cured of evil spirits and infirmities, Mary, called Magdalene, from whom seven demons had gone out, Joanna, the wife of Herod’s steward Chuza, Susanna, and many others who provided for them out of their resources.

The Gospel of the Lord

R/ Praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ.

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Saints Andrew Kim Taegon, Priest, and Paul Chong Hasang, and their Companions, Martyrs 

(Liturgical Colour: Red. Year: B(II))

(Readings for the memorial)

(There is a choice today between the readings for the ferial day (Friday) and those for the memorial. The ferial readings are recommended unless pastoral reasons suggest otherwise)

Either:

First Reading Wisdom 3:1-9 As sacrificial offerings he took them to himself.

The souls of the just are in the hand of God, and no torment shall touch them. They seemed, in the view of the foolish, to be dead; and their passing away was thought an affliction and their going forth from us, utter destruction. But they are in peace. For if before men, indeed, they be punished, yet is their hope full of immortality; Chastised a little, they shall be greatly blessed, because God tried them and found them worthy of himself. As gold in the furnace, he proved them, and as sacrificial offerings he took them to himself. In the time of their visitation they shall shine, and shall dart about as sparks through stubble; They shall judge nations and rule over peoples, and the LORD shall be their King forever. Those who trust in him shall understand truth, and the faithful shall abide with him in love: Because grace and mercy are with his holy ones, and his care is with his elect.

The Word of the Lord

R/ Thanks be to God.

Or:

First Reading Romans 8:31b-39 Neither death nor life will be able to separate us from the love of God.

Brothers and sisters: If God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not spare his own Son but handed him over for us all, how will he not also give us everything else along with him? Who will bring a charge against God’s chosen ones? It is God who acquits us. Who will condemn? It is Christ Jesus who died, rather, was raised, who also is at the right hand of God, who indeed intercedes for us. What will separate us from the love of Christ? Will anguish, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or the sword? As it is written:

For your sake we are being slain all the day; we are looked upon as sheep to be slaughtered.

No, in all these things we conquer overwhelmingly through him who loved us. For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor present things, nor future things, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

The Word of the Lord

R/ Thanks be to God.

Responsorial Psalm Psalm 126:1bc-2ab, 2cd-3, 4-5, 6

R/ Those who sow in tears shall reap rejoicing.

When the LORD brought back the captives of Zion, we were like men dreaming. Then our mouth was filled with laughter, and our tongue with rejoicing.

R/ Those who sow in tears shall reap rejoicing.

Then they said among the nations, “The LORD has done great things for them.” The LORD has done great things for us; we are glad indeed.

R/ Those who sow in tears shall reap rejoicing.

Restore our fortunes, O LORD, like the torrents in the southern desert. Those who sow in tears shall reap rejoicing.

R/ Those who sow in tears shall reap rejoicing.

Although they go forth weeping, carrying the seed to be sown, They shall come back rejoicing, carrying their sheaves.

R/ Those who sow in tears shall reap rejoicing.

Gospel Acclamation 1 Peter 4:14

Alleluia, alleluia. If you are insulted for the name of Christ, blessed are you, for the Spirit of God rests upon you. Alleluia, alleluia.

Gospel Luke 9:23-26 Whoever loses his life for my sake will save it.

Jesus said to all, “If anyone wishes to come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me. For whoever wishes to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will save it. What profit is there for one to gain the whole world yet lose or forfeit himself? Whoever is ashamed of me and of my words, the Son of Man will be ashamed of when he comes in his glory and in the glory of the Father and of the holy angels.”

The Gospel of the Lord

R/ Praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ.

[momentsbeforemass]

Daily

“Take up your cross daily and follow me.”

The first thing that comes to mind when I hear that? Good Friday. With a bloodied, beaten Jesus carrying His cross to His impending death.

It sounds like a call to be like Jesus in a moment of great crisis – when martyrdom stands clearly before us. Where the choice is to deny Christ or to be killed, like St. Andrew Kim Taegon and his companions (today’s saints).

The first clue that I’ve got it wrong? The word, “daily.” Why?

Good Friday is a one-time thing. The martyrdom of St. Andrew Kim Taegon and his companions? It’s not something that I can do again tomorrow.

But “taking up the cross” is something Jesus wants you and I to do daily, so that we can be free to follow Him. So that we can be free to become who God made us to be.

So, what is Jesus is talking about? What is this “cross?”

It varies from person to person and from day to day. Because the things that try to get between us and God are different. And they change.

What makes this hard is that the things that come between us and God? It’s not just the obvious stuff, like the 10 Commandments or denying Christ to avoid being killed. Because you and I are vulnerable to just about anything getting between us and God.

From things we like, to things we don’t like, to things that don’t really matter, and even the general busyness of life. Our cross, our struggle?

As St. Basil puts it, our struggle is with “the obstacles springing from the habits of life.”

The things that are rushing at us as we start a random Wednesday is September. That’s the level that we’re working on here.

So here’s the plan, and it comes from C.S. Lewis,

It comes the very moment you wake up each morning. All your wishes and hopes for the day rush at you like wild animals.

And the first job each morning consists simply in shoving them all back; in listening to that other voice, taking that other point of view, letting that other larger, stronger, quieter life come flowing in.

And so on, all day. Standing back from all your natural fussings and frettings; coming in out of the wind.

If we want the freedom that comes from following Jesus. If we want the joy that comes with being who God made us to be. If we want to be ready for the more obvious stuff.

Then this is what we need to do, and it’s why Jesus is telling us to do it daily.

Today’s Readings

[thedavekim]

“We have come into the world by God’s grace... what good will this do us if we are Christians in name alone?” St Andrew Kim Taegon, patron saint of Korea and first Korean born priest

[myremnantarmy]

𝐒𝐞𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝟐𝟎, 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟑 𝐆𝐨𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐥

Memorial of Saint Andrew Kim Taegon, priest and martyr, and Saint Paul Chong Hasang, catechist and martyr, and their companions, martyrs

Gospel Lk 7:31-35

Jesus said to the crowds:

"To what shall I compare the people of this generation?

What are they like?

They are like children who sit in the marketplace and call to one another,

'We played the flute for you, but you did not dance.

We sang a dirge, but you did not weep.'

For John the Baptist came neither eating food nor drinking wine,

and you said, 'He is possessed by a demon.'

The Son of Man came eating and drinking and you said,

'Look, he is a glutton and a drunkard,

a friend of tax collectors and sinners.'

But wisdom is vindicated by all her children."

[tinyshe]

A painting depicts 103 Korean martyrs canonized by Pope John Paul II in 1984, seen in this Aug. 19, 2008, photo. (CNS photo/courtesy Archdiocese of Seoul)

More Saints of the Day September 20

Sts. Andrew Kim Taegon, Paul Chong Hasang, and Companions

St. Agatha Chon Kyonghyob

St. Agatha Kim

St. Agatha Yi

St. Agatha Yi Kannan

St. Agatha Yi Kyong-i

St. Agatha Yi Sosa

St. Alex U Seyong

St. Anna Kim

St. Candida

St. Cecilia Yu

St. Dionysius

St. Eusebia

St. Eustace

St. Eustachius

St. Fausta and Evilasius

St. John Charles Cornay

St. Jose Maria de Yermo y Parres

St. Lawrence Imbert

St. Lucia Park Huisun

St. Magalena Ho Kye-im

St. Martha Kim

Martyrs of Korea

St. Paul Chong Hasang

St. Agapitus

St. Susanna U Surim

St. Teresa Yi Mae-im

St. Theodore, Philippa, and Companions

Bl. Thomas Johnson

St. Thomas Son Chason

St. Vincent Madelgarus

[cruger2984]

The Pretty Cures and its Saints: Hirogaru Sky! Pretty Cure

In celebration of the franchise’s 20th anniversary, I have to share with you all with their birthday corresponding with feast days that is honored and recognized by the Roman Catholic Church!

September 20 - Sora Harewataru (Cure Sky)

St. Andrew Kim Taegon: 19th century Korean martyr who was first Korean-born Catholic priest. In the late 18th century, Roman Catholicism began to take root slowly in Korea, and was introduced by scholars who visited China and brought back Western books translated into Chinese. Born of yangban (a part of the traditional ruling class or gentry of dynastic Korea during the Joseon Dynasty), parents were converts and his father was subsequently martyred for practising Christianity, and after he baptized at 15, he studied at a seminary in Macau. Andrew also spent time in study at Lolomboy, Bocaue, Bulacan in the Philippines, where today he is also venerated. During his trip to Korea, Andrew is canonized as a saint by Pope St. John Paul II, along with 102 other Korean Martyrs, including Paul Chong Hasang on May 6, 1984.

July 16 - Mashiro Nijigaoka (Cure Prism)

Our Lady of Mount Carmel (Nuestra Señora del Carmen): A Marian title that is given to the Blessed Virgin Mary in her role as patroness of the Carmelite Order (Order of the Brothers of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mount Carmel), particularly within the Catholic Church. The first Carmelites were Christian hermits living on Mount Carmel in the Holy Land during the late 12th and early to mid-13th century. They built in the midst of their hermitages a chapel which they dedicated to the Blessed Virgin, whom they conceived of in chivalric terms as the 'Lady of the place.' Since the 15th century, popular devotion to Our Lady of Mount Carmel has centered on the Scapular of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, also known as the Brown Scapular. Traditionally, Mary is said to have given the Scapular to an early Carmelite named Simon Stock, a prior general of the order in 1251. She is honored as the patron of Chile, as well as protection from harm, dangerous situations and Purgatory.

May 21 - Tsubasa Yuunagi (Cure Wing)

St. Helena of Constantinople: 4th century empress and is known as the mother of Emperor Constantine the Great, who is later a saint. Helena is honored as an important figure in the history of Christianity. In her final years, she made a religious tour of Syria Palaestina and Jerusalem, during which ancient tradition claims that she discovered the True Cross.

August 8 - Ageha Hijiri (Cure Butterfly)

St. Dominic de Guzmán: Spanish priest who is widely known as the founder of the Order of Preachers aka the Dominicans. According to one story, Dominic’s mother, Bl. Joan of Aza, made a pilgrimage to the Abbey at Silos, and dreamt that a dog leapt from her womb carrying a flaming torch in its mouth (it later becomes one of the saint’s attributes), and ’seemed to set the earth on fire.’ The spread of the Rosary, a Marian devotion, is attributed to Dominic’s teachings, and has it for centuries been at the heart of the Order. The Dominicans have been instrumental in spreading the rosary and emphasizing the Catholic belief in the power of the rosary for centuries. His major shrine can be found in Basilica of San Domenico in Bologna, and he is the patron of astronomers.

[thepastisalreadywritten]

SAINTS OF THE DAY (September 20)

Pope John Paul II said this of the Catholic Church in Korea:

"The Korean Church is unique because it was founded entirely by laypeople. This fledgling Church, so young and yet so strong in faith, withstood wave after wave of fierce persecution.

Thus, in less than a century, it could boast 10,000 martyrs.

The years 1791, 1801, 1827, 1839, 1846, and 1866 are forever signed with the holy blood of your martyrs and engraved in your hearts.

The death of these many martyrs became the leaven of the Church and led to today's splendid flowering of the Church in Korea.

Even today, their undying spirit sustains the Christians of the Church of Silence in the north of this tragically divided land."

Christianity came to Korea through Christian books, which had been brought across the border from China.

In 1784, the small community of Koreans who had been converted through what they read in the books sent one of their own to Beijing to receive baptism.

In the next half century, the rapidly growing Christian community of Korea was sustained in the Sacraments by only two priests from China until 1836, when, after years of pleading, a group of French missionary priests were sent to Korea.

These priests all numbered among the martyrs.

At the end of the 18th century and throughout the next, there were six great waves of persecution in which 10,000 martyrs shed their blood for the faith.

Saints Andrew Kim Taegon and Paul Chong Hasañg were leaders of the Catholic Church in Korea.

Andrew Kim Taegon was born on 21 August 1821 to Korean nobility. His parents converted when he was 15 years old.

He traveled over 1,000 miles to study in a seminary and became the first native Korean priest.

During the Joseon Dynasty, Christianity was suppressed and many Christians were persecuted and executed.

Catholics had to practice their faith covertly. Kim was one of several thousand Christians who were executed during this time.

On 16 September 1846, at the age of 25, he was tortured and beheaded near Seoul on the Han River.

He was beatified on 11 September 1925.

He is the patron saint of Korean clergy.

Paul Choñg Hasang was a Korean Catholic lay leader who defended the faith before the government of Korea and reunited the Christians in the midst of the persecutions, encouraging them to stay strong in the faith.

In response to his direct appeals, Pope Gregory X confirmed the validity of the Korean Church and sent more priests to Korea.

Hasang went through a series of tortures in which his countenance remained tranquil.

Finally, he was bound to a cross on a cart and cheerfully met his death on 22 September 1839 at the age of 45.

He was beatified by Pope Pius XI on 6 June 1925.

The Korean Martyrs were canonized by Pope John Paul II on 6 May 1984.

[ohmysaint]

Today we honor Saint Andrew Kim Taegon, the first native Korean priest. His unwavering faith in the face of persecution continues to inspire believers around the world. Let us be strengthened by his courage to live out our faith boldly! 🙏

[brookston]

Holidays 9.16

Holidays

Aluminum Foil Day

American Legion Day

Anne Bradstreet Day

Armed Forces Day (Malaysia)

Artemis Asteroid Day

Cherokee Strip Day (Oklahoma)

Collect Rocks Day

Eleven Days of Global Unity, Day 6: Children and Youth

Federal Fast (Switzerland)

Fiestas Patrias (Chile)

Global Female Condom Day

Hari Taika (a.k.a. Teej; Special Female Employees Holiday; Nepal)

Heroes’ Day (Saint Kitts and Nevis)

Hole-in-One Day

International Day for Interventional Cardiology

International Day of Science, Technology and Innovation for the South (UN)

International Day For the Preservation of the Ozone Layer (UN)

International Day of Listening

International Identity Day

International Potcake Day

Juliet’s Day (Verona, Italy)

Lesbian Visibility Day (Paraguay)

Malaysia Day (Australia; Malaysia)

Martyrs’ Day (Libya)

Mayflower Day

Miniature Day

National Ask an Atheist Day [also 4.16]

National Day of Prayer and Remembrance for the Victims of Hurricane Katrina

National Gymnastics Day

National Identity Day (Nigeria)

National Latino Crafts Day

National Opioid Awareness Day

National Sit with a Stranger Day

National 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion Day

National Stepfamily Day

National Tattoo Story Day

National Teaching Assistants’ Day (UK)

National Working Parents Day

916 Day

Owain Glyndŵr Day (Wales)

Pack Basket Day (French Republic)

Penama Day (Vanuatu)

Play Doh Day

Plover Appreciation Day

Sabra and Shatila Anniversary Day (Lebanon)

Sea Starwort Day

Stay Away From Seattle Day

Stepfamily Day

Tattoo Story Day

Teenager Workout Day

Trail of Tears Commemoration Day

Working Parents Day

World Barber Day

World Jhatka Day

World Ozone Day (India)

World Play-Doh Day (a.k.a. National Play-Doh Day)

Wrinkled Raincoat Day

Food & Drink Celebrations

Cinnamon Raisin Bread Day

National Choose Your Chocolate Day

National ‘Clink’ and Drink Champagne in Your Kitchen Day

National Guacamole Day

Independence & Related Days

Alagoas Statehood Day (Brazil; 1902)

Indokistan (Declared; 2010) [unrecognized]

Mexico (from Spain, 1810)

Papua New Guinea (from Australia, 1975)

3rd Monday in September

Bettagsmontag (Switzerland) [Monday after 3rd Sunday]

Human Rights Day (Antarctica) [3rd Monday]

Manic Monday [3rd Monday of Each Month]

Meatball Monday [3rd Monday of Each Month]

Meditation Monday [Every Monday]

Monday Musings [Every Monday]

Motivation Monday [Every Monday]

National Cupcake Week begins (UK) [3rd Monday]

National Woman Road Warrior Day [3rd Monday]

Respect For the Aged Day (Japan) [3rd Monday]

Weekly Holidays beginning September 16 (3rd Full Week of September)

Astronomy Week [Fall] (thru 9.22)

Hate Week (in George Orwell’s “1984”) [Monday of Last Full Week of Summer]

Malnutrition Awareness Week (thru 9.20)

National Love Your Files Week (thru 9.20) [3rd Full Mon-Fri Week]

National Postdoc Appreciation Week (thru 9.20)

Pollution Prevention Week (thru 9.22) [Begins 3rd Monday]

Festivals Beginning September 16, 2024

Americas Food & Beverage Show & Conference (Miami Beach, Florida) [thru 9.18]

Columbia County Fair & Livestock Show (Magnolia, Arkansas) [thru 9.21]

Sharon Corn and Music Festival (Sharon, Tennessee) [thru 9.21]

A Taste of the States: Miami (Miami, Florida) [thru 9.18]

Feast Days

Abundius, Abundantius and Their Companions (Christian; Martyrs)

Andrew Kim Taegon (Christian; One of The Korean Martyrs)

Annie Afghan (Muppetism)

Art Sansom (Artology)

Calderon (Positivist; Saint)

Cornelius, Pope (Christian; Martyr)

Cornely (Christian; Saint) [Horned Animals]

Curcodomus (Christian; Saint)

Cynicism Appreciation Day (Pastafarian)

Cyprian of Carthage (Catholic Church)

Day of the Great Mother (Pagan)

The Day That Shall Not Be Named (Church of the SubGenius)

Edith of Wilton (Christian; Saint)

Euphemia (Christian; Saint)

Feast of Het-Het (Hathor, Egyptian Goddess of Drunkenness)

Flying Ointment Recipe Day (Starza Pagan Book of Days)

H. A. Rey (Artology)

Hiroya Oku (Artology)

James Alan McPherson (Writerism)

Jean Arp (Artology)

John Knowles (Writerism)

Lucia and Geminianus (Christian; Martyrs)

Ludmila (Christian; Saint)

Martyrdom of Imam Reza (Islamic; Iran)

Martyr’s Day (Libya)

Media Aestas X (Pagan)

Mike Mignola (Artology)

Ninian (a.k.a. Ninyas; Christian; Saint)

Seth (Artology)

Lunar Calendar Holidays

Chusok (Harvest Moon Festival; South Korea)

Mid-Autumn Festival Holiday (China)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Sakimake (先負 Japan) [Bad luck in the morning, good luck in the afternoon.]

Tycho Brahe Unlucky Day (Scandinavia) [30 of 37]

Unfortunate Day (Pagan) [45 of 57]

Premieres

Antony and Cleopatra, by Samuel Barber (Opera; 1966)

Barney’s Version, by Mordecai Richler (Novel; 1997)

The Bob Newhart Show (TV Series; 1972)

Buena Vista Social Club (Album; 1997)

Corpse Bride (Animated Film; 2005)

Curious George, by H.A. Rey (Children’s Book; 1941)

The Dean Martin Show (TV Variety Series; 1965)

Drive (Film; 2011)

Fatal Attraction (Film; 1987)

A Fractured Leghorn (WB MM Cartoon; 1950)

Frasier (TV Series; 1993)

The Grass Is Singing, by Doris Lessing (Novel; 1950)

Handy Manny (Animated TV Series; 2006)

Hounds of Love, by Kate Bush (Album; 1985)

In the Mood (Film; 1987)

Logan’s Run (TV Series; 1977)

Miami Vice (TV Series; 1984)

Neverwhere, by Neil Gaiman (Novel; 1996)

Oil’s Well (Oswald the Lucky Rabbit Cartoon; 1929)

The Pied Piper (Silly Symphony Disney Cartoon; 1933)

Pink Arcade (Pink Panther Cartoon; 1978)

Pink S.W.A.T. (Pink Panther Cartoon; 1978)

Play Ball, featuring Willie Whopper (Ub Iwerks MGM Cartoon; 1933)

Postman Pat (Animated TV Series; 1981)

Princess Caraboo (Film; 1994)

Punky Brewster (TV Series; 1984)

Rapper’s Delight, by The Sugarhill Gang (Song; 1979)

The Robe (Film; 1953)

See How They Run (Film; 2022)

Shindig! (Musical TV Series; 1964)

Sky King (Radio Series; 1951)

Sleepy Hollow (TV Series; 2013)

Snapchat (Social Media App; 2011)

The Soul Sessions, by Joss Stone (Album; 2003)

Spike & Mike’s Festival of Animation (Animated Compilation Film; 1992)

Surfer Girl, by The Beach Boys (Album; 1963)

Talking Heads: 77, by Talking Heads (Album; 1977)

Timecop (Film; 1994)

Tom and Jerry in the Hollywood Bowl (Tom & Jerry Cartoon; 1950)

A Victim of Gravity (Science Rock Cartoon; Schoolhouse Rock; 1978)

Webster (TV Series; 1983)

Yogi’s Ark Lark (Hanna Barbera Animated TV Movie; 1972)

You’re Sixteen, recorded by Johnny Burnett (Song; 1960)

Today’s Name Days

Edith, Ludmilla, Mechthild (Austria)

Lyudmil, Lyudmila (Bulgaria)

Ciprijan, Eufemija, Kornelije (Croatia)

Ludmila (Czech Republic)

Euphemia (Denmark)

Aila, Aile, Aili, Alice, Aliise (Estonia)

Hellevi, Hilla, Hille, Hillevi (Finland)

Édith (France)

Cornelius, Euphemia (Germany)

Evfemia, Lountmilla, Melina (Greece)

Edit (Hungary)

Cipriano, Cipriano, Cornelio, Dolcissima, Edoardo, Eufemia (Italy)

Asja, Asnate (Latvia)

Edita, Jogintė, Kamilė, Rimgaudas (Lithuania)

Aslak, Eskil (Norway)

Antym, Cyprian, Edda, Edyta, Eufemia, Eugenia, Franciszek, Jakobina, Kamila, Kornel, Łucja, Lucja, Sebastiana, Sędzisław, Wiktor, Wiktoriusz (Poland)

Ludmila (Slovakia)

Cipriano, Cornelio, Juan, Rogelio (Spain)

Dag, Daga (Sweden)

Ludmilla (Ukraine)

Cornelia, Cornelius, Cornell, Edith, Nila, Nyla (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 260 of 2024; 106 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 1 of Week 38 of 2024

Celtic Tree Calendar: Muin (Vine) [Day 16 of 28]

Chinese: Month 8 (Guy-You), Day 14 (Guy-Wei)

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

Hebrew: 13 Elul 5784

Islamic: 12 Rabi I 1446

J Cal: 20 Gold; Sixday [20 of 30]

Julian: 3 September 2024

Moon: 97%: Waxing Gibbous

Positivist: 8 Shakespeare (10th Month) [Tirso]

Runic Half Month: Ken (Illumination) [Day 10 of 15]

Season: Summer (Day 89 of 94)

Week: 3rd Full Week of September

Zodiac: Virgo (Day 26 of 32)

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Holidays 9.16

Holidays

Aluminum Foil Day

American Legion Day

Anne Bradstreet Day

Armed Forces Day (Malaysia)

Artemis Asteroid Day

Cherokee Strip Day (Oklahoma)

Collect Rocks Day

Eleven Days of Global Unity, Day 6: Children and Youth

Federal Fast (Switzerland)

Fiestas Patrias (Chile)

Global Female Condom Day

Hari Taika (a.k.a. Teej; Special Female Employees Holiday; Nepal)

Heroes’ Day (Saint Kitts and Nevis)

Hole-in-One Day

International Day for Interventional Cardiology

International Day of Science, Technology and Innovation for the South (UN)

International Day For the Preservation of the Ozone Layer (UN)

International Day of Listening

International Identity Day

International Potcake Day

Juliet’s Day (Verona, Italy)

Lesbian Visibility Day (Paraguay)

Malaysia Day (Australia; Malaysia)

Martyrs’ Day (Libya)

Mayflower Day

Miniature Day

National Ask an Atheist Day [also 4.16]

National Day of Prayer and Remembrance for the Victims of Hurricane Katrina

National Gymnastics Day

National Identity Day (Nigeria)

National Latino Crafts Day

National Opioid Awareness Day

National Sit with a Stranger Day

National 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion Day

National Stepfamily Day

National Tattoo Story Day

National Teaching Assistants’ Day (UK)

National Working Parents Day

916 Day

Owain Glyndŵr Day (Wales)

Pack Basket Day (French Republic)

Penama Day (Vanuatu)

Play Doh Day

Plover Appreciation Day

Sabra and Shatila Anniversary Day (Lebanon)

Sea Starwort Day

Stay Away From Seattle Day

Stepfamily Day

Tattoo Story Day

Teenager Workout Day

Trail of Tears Commemoration Day

Working Parents Day

World Barber Day

World Jhatka Day

World Ozone Day (India)

World Play-Doh Day (a.k.a. National Play-Doh Day)

Wrinkled Raincoat Day

Food & Drink Celebrations

Cinnamon Raisin Bread Day

National Choose Your Chocolate Day

National ‘Clink’ and Drink Champagne in Your Kitchen Day

National Guacamole Day

Independence & Related Days

Alagoas Statehood Day (Brazil; 1902)

Indokistan (Declared; 2010) [unrecognized]

Mexico (from Spain, 1810)

Papua New Guinea (from Australia, 1975)

3rd Monday in September

Bettagsmontag (Switzerland) [Monday after 3rd Sunday]

Human Rights Day (Antarctica) [3rd Monday]

Manic Monday [3rd Monday of Each Month]

Meatball Monday [3rd Monday of Each Month]

Meditation Monday [Every Monday]

Monday Musings [Every Monday]

Motivation Monday [Every Monday]

National Cupcake Week begins (UK) [3rd Monday]

National Woman Road Warrior Day [3rd Monday]

Respect For the Aged Day (Japan) [3rd Monday]

Weekly Holidays beginning September 16 (3rd Full Week of September)

Astronomy Week [Fall] (thru 9.22)

Hate Week (in George Orwell’s “1984”) [Monday of Last Full Week of Summer]

Malnutrition Awareness Week (thru 9.20)

National Love Your Files Week (thru 9.20) [3rd Full Mon-Fri Week]

National Postdoc Appreciation Week (thru 9.20)

Pollution Prevention Week (thru 9.22) [Begins 3rd Monday]

Festivals Beginning September 16, 2024

Americas Food & Beverage Show & Conference (Miami Beach, Florida) [thru 9.18]

Columbia County Fair & Livestock Show (Magnolia, Arkansas) [thru 9.21]

Sharon Corn and Music Festival (Sharon, Tennessee) [thru 9.21]

A Taste of the States: Miami (Miami, Florida) [thru 9.18]

Feast Days

Abundius, Abundantius and Their Companions (Christian; Martyrs)

Andrew Kim Taegon (Christian; One of The Korean Martyrs)

Annie Afghan (Muppetism)

Art Sansom (Artology)

Calderon (Positivist; Saint)

Cornelius, Pope (Christian; Martyr)

Cornely (Christian; Saint) [Horned Animals]

Curcodomus (Christian; Saint)

Cynicism Appreciation Day (Pastafarian)

Cyprian of Carthage (Catholic Church)

Day of the Great Mother (Pagan)

The Day That Shall Not Be Named (Church of the SubGenius)

Edith of Wilton (Christian; Saint)

Euphemia (Christian; Saint)

Feast of Het-Het (Hathor, Egyptian Goddess of Drunkenness)

Flying Ointment Recipe Day (Starza Pagan Book of Days)

H. A. Rey (Artology)

Hiroya Oku (Artology)

James Alan McPherson (Writerism)

Jean Arp (Artology)

John Knowles (Writerism)

Lucia and Geminianus (Christian; Martyrs)

Ludmila (Christian; Saint)

Martyrdom of Imam Reza (Islamic; Iran)

Martyr’s Day (Libya)

Media Aestas X (Pagan)

Mike Mignola (Artology)

Ninian (a.k.a. Ninyas; Christian; Saint)

Seth (Artology)

Lunar Calendar Holidays

Chusok (Harvest Moon Festival; South Korea)

Mid-Autumn Festival Holiday (China)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Sakimake (先負 Japan) [Bad luck in the morning, good luck in the afternoon.]

Tycho Brahe Unlucky Day (Scandinavia) [30 of 37]

Unfortunate Day (Pagan) [45 of 57]

Premieres

Antony and Cleopatra, by Samuel Barber (Opera; 1966)

Barney’s Version, by Mordecai Richler (Novel; 1997)

The Bob Newhart Show (TV Series; 1972)

Buena Vista Social Club (Album; 1997)

Corpse Bride (Animated Film; 2005)

Curious George, by H.A. Rey (Children’s Book; 1941)

The Dean Martin Show (TV Variety Series; 1965)

Drive (Film; 2011)

Fatal Attraction (Film; 1987)

A Fractured Leghorn (WB MM Cartoon; 1950)

Frasier (TV Series; 1993)

The Grass Is Singing, by Doris Lessing (Novel; 1950)

Handy Manny (Animated TV Series; 2006)

Hounds of Love, by Kate Bush (Album; 1985)

In the Mood (Film; 1987)

Logan’s Run (TV Series; 1977)

Miami Vice (TV Series; 1984)

Neverwhere, by Neil Gaiman (Novel; 1996)

Oil’s Well (Oswald the Lucky Rabbit Cartoon; 1929)

The Pied Piper (Silly Symphony Disney Cartoon; 1933)

Pink Arcade (Pink Panther Cartoon; 1978)

Pink S.W.A.T. (Pink Panther Cartoon; 1978)

Play Ball, featuring Willie Whopper (Ub Iwerks MGM Cartoon; 1933)

Postman Pat (Animated TV Series; 1981)

Princess Caraboo (Film; 1994)

Punky Brewster (TV Series; 1984)

Rapper’s Delight, by The Sugarhill Gang (Song; 1979)

The Robe (Film; 1953)

See How They Run (Film; 2022)

Shindig! (Musical TV Series; 1964)

Sky King (Radio Series; 1951)

Sleepy Hollow (TV Series; 2013)

Snapchat (Social Media App; 2011)

The Soul Sessions, by Joss Stone (Album; 2003)

Spike & Mike’s Festival of Animation (Animated Compilation Film; 1992)

Surfer Girl, by The Beach Boys (Album; 1963)

Talking Heads: 77, by Talking Heads (Album; 1977)

Timecop (Film; 1994)

Tom and Jerry in the Hollywood Bowl (Tom & Jerry Cartoon; 1950)

A Victim of Gravity (Science Rock Cartoon; Schoolhouse Rock; 1978)

Webster (TV Series; 1983)

Yogi’s Ark Lark (Hanna Barbera Animated TV Movie; 1972)

You’re Sixteen, recorded by Johnny Burnett (Song; 1960)

Today’s Name Days

Edith, Ludmilla, Mechthild (Austria)

Lyudmil, Lyudmila (Bulgaria)

Ciprijan, Eufemija, Kornelije (Croatia)

Ludmila (Czech Republic)

Euphemia (Denmark)

Aila, Aile, Aili, Alice, Aliise (Estonia)

Hellevi, Hilla, Hille, Hillevi (Finland)

Édith (France)

Cornelius, Euphemia (Germany)

Evfemia, Lountmilla, Melina (Greece)

Edit (Hungary)

Cipriano, Cipriano, Cornelio, Dolcissima, Edoardo, Eufemia (Italy)

Asja, Asnate (Latvia)

Edita, Jogintė, Kamilė, Rimgaudas (Lithuania)

Aslak, Eskil (Norway)

Antym, Cyprian, Edda, Edyta, Eufemia, Eugenia, Franciszek, Jakobina, Kamila, Kornel, Łucja, Lucja, Sebastiana, Sędzisław, Wiktor, Wiktoriusz (Poland)

Ludmila (Slovakia)

Cipriano, Cornelio, Juan, Rogelio (Spain)

Dag, Daga (Sweden)

Ludmilla (Ukraine)

Cornelia, Cornelius, Cornell, Edith, Nila, Nyla (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 260 of 2024; 106 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 1 of Week 38 of 2024

Celtic Tree Calendar: Muin (Vine) [Day 16 of 28]

Chinese: Month 8 (Guy-You), Day 14 (Guy-Wei)

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

Hebrew: 13 Elul 5784

Islamic: 12 Rabi I 1446

J Cal: 20 Gold; Sixday [20 of 30]

Julian: 3 September 2024

Moon: 97%: Waxing Gibbous

Positivist: 8 Shakespeare (10th Month) [Tirso]

Runic Half Month: Ken (Illumination) [Day 10 of 15]

Season: Summer (Day 89 of 94)

Week: 3rd Full Week of September

Zodiac: Virgo (Day 26 of 32)

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