A Carpe Diem Snapshot:
"There are two gifts we should give our children: one is roots and the other is wings." -Hodding Carter
This quote popped into my mind just now as I was capturing this scene, with the airplane far off above and Cordelia posing in front of a giant birdcage below, in a Renaissance era garden in Rome, the city where we have planted our roots!
Liturgical: The Solemnity of the Annunciation! "This feast day forecasts the blessed event of Christmas, and illustrates how the liturgical year is an endless circle of days."
"First he says, 'Sacrifices and offerings, holocausts and sin offerings, you neither desired nor delighted in.' These are offered according to the law. Then he says, “Behold, I come to do your will.” He takes away the first to establish the second. By this “will,” we have been consecrated through the offering of the Body of Jesus Christ once for all."
Sanctoral: Julie Billiart, France +1816. Holy from childhood, paralyzed for 22 years before miraculous recovery, survived the French Revolution, foundress of the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur.
Human: 217 AD – the Roman Emperor Caracalla was assassinated by the instigation of the praetorian prefect, Macrinus. The soldiers then proclaimed him the new emperor, and the Senate soon confirmed.
1820 AD- The famous ancient Greek statue, Venus de Milo is discovered on the Aegean island of Milos.
2021- Egyptian archaeologists announce their most important find since Tutankhamun's tomb - discovery of a lost 'golden city,' the 3,000-year-old ancient city of Aten near Luxor
Natural: There's a total solar eclipse coming to Rome! In only 163 years! Galileo looked directly at the sun and eventually went blind. Good to remember today, even if we don't really know why the poor man lost his vision.
Quote:
“No more be grieved at that which thou hast done.
Roses have thorns, and silver fountains mud;
Clouds and eclipses stain both moon and sun,
And loathsome canker lives in sweetest bud.”
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