A Carpe Diem Snapshot:
'Tis Snail Season at Villa Magnolia, and my girls have caught my snail mania. As they discovered this morning, snails can move towards their target (escape) surprisingly quickly thanks to their steady perseverance. A lesson for us all! This is the only lesson the chef at Villa Magnolia is concerned with.
Liturgical: Third Sunday of Easter And as he said this, he showed them his hands and his feet. While they were still incredulous for joy and were amazed, he asked them, "Have you anything here to eat?" They gave him a piece of baked fish; he took it and ate it in front of them.
Bishop Barron's Homily- "What Happens After We Die"
Fr. Plant's Homily- "He Opened Their Minds"
Sanctoral: Ardalion the Actor, martyr. Asia Minor +300
Human: 43 BC – in the battle of Forum Gallorum, the army of the Senate and Gaius Octavian defeated Mark Antony. A few days later, news about the victory reached Rome. On April 21, the Senate ordered a thanking holiday and announced three commanders Triumviri rei publicae constituendae (Triumvirs for Confirming the Republic with Consular Power). Background info HERE.
69 AD – in the battle of Bedriacum, the usurper Vitellius defeated the emperor Marcus Salvias Otho. Shaken by the defeat, Otho committed suicide two days later, stabbing his dagger in the chest. The next day, the rest of Otho’s troops commanded by Annius Gallus passed their weapons, capitulating and Vitellius appointed himself the emperor.
1828- Noah Webster’s American Dictionary of the English Language printed.
1865- President Abraham Lincoln was shot by John Wilkes Booth at Ford’s Theater, Washington, D.C.
Natural: 1561--The sky was full of unknown moving objects in Nuremberg, Germany
2010-- A massive fireball shot across the evening sky, visible for about 15 minutes in the Midwest. A sonic boom and lightning were reported.
2010-- A 7.1-magnitude earthquake devastated China’s Yushu County in the Qinghai Province
Quote: "Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are and to make new things like them. For everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be."
Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, “Book IV”. (from c. 180 CE)
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