1. The year was 1847, and we remember George Rapp. The reading is from Walter Brueggemann, “The Prophetic Imagination.”
  2. The year was 1221, and we remember St. Dominic. The reading is from Aquinas' famous hymn, "Pange Lingua."
  3. The year was 1912, and we remember Henri-Antoine Groues. The reading is “Dominus Illuminatio Mea” by Richard Doddridge Blackmore.
  4. The year was 1708, and we remember Francis Makemie. The reading is an excerpt from "The Brothers Karamazov" by Fyodor Dostoyevsky.
  5. God Bless the pandemic! Unfortunately, no one is going to learn from it. The preachers tackle issues others are afraid to even speak out loud! This time - Aliens! Do they exist and if so, would you baptize one?
  6. The year was 2008, and we remember Alexander Solzhenitsyn. The reading is a poem from Solzhenitsyn's "Gulag Archipelago."
  7. The year was 640 and Pope Severinus died. The reading is from Cynewulf's “The Ascension."
  8. The year was 1897 and Pope Leo XIII published his encyclical "Militantis Ecclesiae." The reading is from Philip Yancey, "The Question That Never Goes Away."
  9. The year was 1861, and we remember Helen Barrett Montgomery. The reading is a stanza from Henry Lyte's "Abide With Me."
  10. The year was 1419 and the First Defenestration at Prague. The reading is a poem from Czeslaw Milosz, “You Whose Name.”
  11. The year was 1030, and we remember St. Olaf Haraldsson. The reading is a poem, "Fierce was the Wild Billow," attributed to Anatolius.