A Carpe Diem Snapshot:
Introducing the Garden Club of "Il Vascello" (translation= the little ship, the name of our home)! This club sprung up organically (pun intended) recently when I was looking for a place to put these four chairs and decided to create a "conversation space" in front of our container garden, suggested by our friend Sheila Carroll (pictured here, the author of Homeschool Gardening). The club rules state that the person seated on the green cushion can address club members, the number of which may not exceed four (the number of chairs), and that the speaker may only speak on the topic of plants and for no longer than five minutes. So far, Cordelia has been the primary speaker of the club, and she always has a lot to say. :)
Liturgical: Tuesday of the Nineteenth Week in Ordinary Time
He called a child over, placed it in their midst, and said,
“Amen, I say to you, unless you turn and become like children,
you will not enter the Kingdom of heaven.
Whoever becomes humble like this child
is the greatest in the Kingdom of heaven.
And whoever receives one child such as this in my name receives me.
Bishop Barron's Gospel reflections today.
Sanctoral: Today is the Optional Memorial of Saints Pontian (Pontianus), Pope and St. Hippolytus, Priest (d. 235). St. Pontian was a victim of the persecution of Alexander Severus, who directed his attention particularly against the leaders of the Church. St. Pontian governed the Church from 230 to 235. He was exiled to the mines of Sardinia and died in exile. St. Hippolytus, a priest and a person of some importance in the Church in Rome at the beginning of the third century, provoked a schism which lasted for some years. He was exiled to Sardinia with St. Pontian, where he was reconciled with the Church and died for the faith in 235.
The following saints are included in the Roman Martyrology today:—St. Cassian of Immola (d. 304), a martyr of the neighborhood of Bologna. According to his biography, he was a schoolmaster and was delivered with his hands tied behind his back to his young pupils, who stabbed him to death. In the bishop's chapel at Ravenna there is a mosaic of St. Cassian that dates from the fifth century.
—St. Radegunde (518-587) is also commemorated today. She was queen at Poitiers and her life was renowned for miracles and virtues.
—St. John Berchmans (1599-1621), born and grew up in a Flemish-speaking area of present-day Belgium. He joined the Society of Jesus (Jesuits). He was very studies and his life was marked by extraordinary piety and love of God above all things. But while at college he was seized with a violent fever, from which he died on August 13th, at the age of twenty-two years and five months. He is the patron of altar servers.
—Blessed Michael Joseph McGivney (1852-1890), American priest who founded the Knights of Columbus.
Human: 1521 Spanish conquistadors under Hernán Cortés capture Aztec Emperor Cuauhtémoc in Tenochtitlan, marking the end of the Aztec Empire; 1942 The Manhattan Project commences under the direction of US General Leslie Groves with the aim of developing an atomic bomb.
Some substantial content on The Writer's Almanac today.
Natural: Blue sun observed widely in the South, thought to presage Nat Turner slave uprising: phenomenon continued for several days– 1831
Italian: Sguardo (look / gaze)
Quote: "The Meaning of Life is to find your gift. The Purpose of Life is to give it away." --Pablo Picasso
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