A Carpe Diem Snapshot : The end is upon us! Today is a kind of new year's eve for the liturgical year of the Roman rite. With the Feast...

A Carpe Diem Snapshot: Whenever I need to remind myself of why I am living in a city, and not the country, I take a walk up to the summit...

A Carpe Diem Snapshot: Happy Thanksgiving from the Villa Magnolia family! Liturgical: Thursday of the Thirty-fourth Week in Ordinary...

A Carpe Diem Snapshot: Happy Birthday to Calendar Class's biggest evangelist, LeeAnn Corkery!! LeeAnn's son just happens to attend our...

A Carpe Diem Snapshot: Valentina may have invented a new theatrical art form with this, her latest expression of narrative illustration....

A Carpe Diem Snapshot: Every year on All Saints Day we choose the name of a saint written on a small piece of paper out of a bucket. As...

A Carpe Diem Snapshot: All good things must come to an end... Some of the mighty umbrella pine trees are toppling over in Villa Pamphili...

A Carpe Diem Snapshot: Today we find ourselves in the town of Velletri , in the Castelli Romani. It is my first excursion outside Rome...

A Carpe Diem Snapshot: In honor of today's feast of St. Cecilia, the patron saint of musicians, I wanted to post something about sacred...

A Carpe Diem Snapshot: It was a difficult task choosing today's Carpe Diem Snapshot from the many options provided by the Art and...

A Carpe Diem Snapshot: Visitors to Rome invariably comment on the omnipresence of graffiti , some of which (regrettably very little) has...

A Carpe Diem Snapshot: Thousands of years of history are captured in this one frame! Today, the Art and Architecture class passed over...

A Carpe Diem Snapshot: This is my "room with a view"! The "new" St. Peter's Basilica is the reason why we are living in this location,...

A Carpe Diem Snapshot : With reportedly over 900 churches in the city of Rome , it's probably impossible to visit them all. This week,...

A Carpe Diem Snapshot : 28 years ago today St. Teresa of Calcutta received honorary citizenship of the United States. It was only the...

A Carpe Diem Snapshot: Today, we were tipped off by a local friend that this charity Christmas market, run by the organization Circolo...

A Carpe Diem Snapshot: Today's Art and Architecture class "refreshed my heart in Christ," taking my cue from today's Mass readings. We...

A Carpe Diem Snapshot: Today is Market Day at Villa Magnolia! The eager shop keeper Cordelia is demonstrating some wares for sale here,...

A Carpe Diem Snapshot: A Carpe Diem Snapshot: The other day, these two beauties came back into my life when they were returned to me by a...

A Carpe Diem Snapshot: This Carpe Diem snapshot was borrowed from Hannah, who observed Remembrance Day at the Commonwealth War Cemetary...