A Carpe Diem Snapshot:
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Liturgical: Monday of the Third Week of Advent
R. Teach me your ways, O Lord.
Good and upright is the LORD;
thus he shows sinners the way.
He guides the humble to justice,
he teaches the humble his way.
Responsorial Psalm 25:4-5ab, 6 and 7bc, 8-9
Bishop Barron's Gospel reflections today.
Sanctoral: The Roman Martyrology commemorates St. Adelaide (931-999), daughter of King Rudolf II of Jurane, Burgundy. Adelaide's first arranged marriage at age 16 to King Lothar II of Italy ended in 3 years at his death. Her second marriage to Emperor Otto the Great she became Holy Roman Empress and reigned with Otto for 20 years. She suffered much during her life. She became regent of the Holy Roman Empire as the guardian of her grandson in 991–995. While in that role, she spent much of her power helping the poor, evangelize particularly to Slavs, and to establish and restore churches and monasteries. After her grandson Otto III was old enough to resume power, she retired to a convent in Selz, Alsace to live out the rest of her days in prayer.
Human: Birthday of Jane Austen (author) – 1775
On December 16, 1620, the British ship Mayflower arrived at modern-day Plymouth, Massachusetts. Soon after, the Pilgrims began building their settlement, Plymouth Colony. – 1620
A group of American patriots dressed as Indians dumped British tea overboard in Boston Harbor, protesting taxes by the British government; the event is referred to as the Boston Tea Party – 1773
Beatrix Potter’s The Tale of Peter Rabbit was first published – 1901
The Writer's Almanac edition today.
Natural: Students’ satellite STARSHINE-2 deployed – 2001
Italian: Ghirlanda (wreath)
Quote: Happy Birthday to Jane Austen!
“It isn't what we say or think that defines us, but what we do.”
- Sense and Sensibility, 1811
“There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.”
- Emma, 1815
“Her own thoughts and reflections were habitually her best companions.”
- Mansfield Park, 1814
“Time will explain.”
- Persuasion, 1818
“There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.”
- Pride and Prejudice, 1813
“If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.”
- Emma, 1815
“Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.”
- Mansfield Park, 1814
“Ah! There is nothing like staying at home, for real comfort.”
- Emma, 1815
“There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.”
- Northanger Abbey, 1818
“Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.”
- Northanger Abbey, 1818
“To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love.”
- Pride and Prejudice, 1813
“We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.”
- Mansfield Park, 1814
“Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.”
- Pride and Prejudice, 1813
“For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbours and laugh at them in our turn?”
- Pride and Prejudice, 1813
“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
- Northanger Abbey, 1818
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