A Carpe Diem Snapshot:
It was beginning to look at lot like Advent this morning at San Pietro in Montorio (no baby Jesus in the manger until the Christmas Eve Mass.) Isn't it funny how excited we are to see the same familiar sites appear each year? We humans seem to be wired for annual traditions, finding deeper meaning in them with each year of growth, if we remember to look upon them with fresh eyes, and through the lense of experience and maturity.
Brothers and sisters:
May the Lord make you increase and abound in love for one another and for all, just as we have for you, so as to strengthen your hearts, to be blameless in holiness before our God and Father at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all his holy ones. Amen.
1 Thes 3:12—4:2
Pope Francis' Angelus greeting today.
Bishop Barron's Sunday Sermon
Fr Plant's Homily
Sanctoral: Saint Charles de Foucauld, France and Algeria, +1916 (I attended his canonization)
Human: Everything you ever wanted to know about December!
The Writer's Almanac edition today.
Natural: December birthstones-- Turquoise, Tanzanite, and Zircon; December birth flowers-- Holly and Narcissus
Italian: Prendere una cantonata (to mess up / make a blunder)
Quote: "In this season of Advent, we are called to expand the horizons of our hearts, to be amazed by the life which presents itself each day with newness. In order to do this, we must learn to not depend on our own certainties, on our own established strategies, because the Lord comes at a time that we do not imagine. He comes to bring us into a more beautiful and grand dimension.”
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