A Carpe Diem Snapshot:
"Mommy, I've got something for you that you're going to like!" My enthusiastic snail collecting Cordelia knows how much I appreciate these adorable, multipurpose creatures and she's not afraid to gather them up and let them slither over her arms (which, she noted, were remarkably smooth afterward, thanks to the skin-softening qualities of snail slime). Read all about these amazing mollusks in the natural cycle lesson below.
Liturgical: Thursday of the Second Week of Easter "We are witnesses of these things, as is the Holy Spirit whom God has given to those who obey him.”
Sanctoral: Memorial of St. Stanislaus (1030-1079). Stanislaus was the Bishop of Cracow, Poland and a martyr at the hands of King Boleslaus II.
Human: 146 AD – Septimius Severus was born in Libya of Punic and Italian ancestry. Roman leader, governor of Pannonia (today’s Hungary), where he was proclaimed the new emperor after the death of Pertinax and Commodus.
217 AD – Praetorian Prefect Macrinus became the new emperor three days after Caracalla’s assassination by one of Macrinus' soldiers – thus the Severan dynasty temporarily ended. He only ruled until June of 218 (after losing the Battle of Antioch he was tracked down and executed) and never visited the capital.
Natural: Multipurpose SNAILS! Cosmetic snail slime, gardeners, pets, works of art, mascot of the Slow Food Movement, and edible, too!
Quote: "For everything you have missed, you have gained something else."
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
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