A Carpe Diem Snapshot:
This smiling group gathered at the Glenwood in Onekama yesterday evening, a reunion- and first meeting- of friends both old and new. Thirty-eight years ago, Paul and Timmie Vitz visited my parents in Mecosta. This past Spring, Timmie reached out to me to say she was coming to Rome with her daughter, who was a friend of my godparents' daughter. Could we get together? It was a "fan girl" moment for me, as I grew up with Timmie's book, A Continual Feast, as my first source of inspiration for liturgical living through feasts. She came to Rome and we had a grand time, becoming fast friends over Aperol spritzes and prayerful moments shared in grand churches. While in Rome, I invited Timmie to attend a lecture by Michael Miller at the Acton Institute's conference on "Truth, Justice, and Liberty in a Pluri-Anthropological World." By happy circumstance, the Vitz family had a reunion near Onekama this summer, so we were able to get together on Michigan soil and introduce the Vitzes and the Millers. Michael's podcast, The Moral Imagination, touches upon many topics addressed by a new book co-edited by Dr. Vitz, A Catholic Christian Meta-Model of the Person: Integration of Psychology and Mental Health Practice. I predict that this will be the beginning of a beautiful friendship.
Liturgical: Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
"So be imitators of God, as beloved children, and live in love,
as Christ loved us and handed himself over for us
as a sacrificial offering to God for a fragrant aroma."
Bishop Barron's Sunday Sermon
Fr. Plant's Homily
Sanctoral: The Memorial of St. Clare of Assisi (1194-1253) is celebrated today. Clare was the first woman to practice the life of entire poverty as taught by St. Francis. Placed by him at the head of a few companions in the small convent of San Damiano, she governed her community for forty-two years thus founding at the gates of Assisi the Order of Poor Clares. Their Rule included austerities hitherto unknown in monasteries of women. They went barefoot, slept on the ground, kept perpetual abstinence and made poverty the basis of their lives. St. Clare died on August 11, 1253, and was canonized two years after her death.
An audio on her life here.
Human: 117 AD– at the age of 41, after Trajan’s death, Hadrian became the new emperor of Rome and its empire. A day earlier, Trajan had died, probably as a result of a stroke in Selinuun, in Cilicia after having returned from the Parthian campaign. Before his death Trajan managed to hand over the command of the eastern army of Hadrian, son of one of his cousins. After the death of the ruler, he was immediately granted the imperial acclamation in Antioch, and the Senate ratified it. There was no official act of adoption, but Plotina, Trajan’s wife immediately stated that on his deathbed the emperor formally appointed Hadrian.
The Writer's Almanac today.
Natural: 2024 Perseid Meteor Shower- look up tonight!
Italian: La goccia che fa traboccare il vaso (the straw that broke the camel’s back)
Quote: Quotes by St. Clare of Assisi--
“We are to become vessels of God’s compassionate love for others.”
“Love that does not know of suffering is not worthy of the name.”
“We become what we love and who we love shapes what we become.”
“Do not be disturbed by the clamor of the world, which passes like a shadow.”
“Never forget that the way which leads to heaven is narrow; that the gate leading to life is narrow and low; that there are but few who find it and enter by it; and if there be some who go in and tread the narrow path for some time, there are but very few who persevere therein.”
“Love Him totally, who gave Himself totally for your love.”
“Our labor here is brief, but the reward is eternal.”
“Don’t be afraid. Trust in Jesus.”
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