A Carpe Diem Snapshot:
Today was the final class for Art and Architecture of Rome of the Fall semester of 2024! We went out with a bang by hitting some big sites today-- the Pantheon, the chiesa di Sant' Ignazio, the chiesa of Santa Maria sopra Minerva, and finally, the great Baroque church of Il Gesu! As every teacher knows, it's the teacher who ends up learning and appreciating the lesson the most as we have the opportunity to not only relearn the same lessons every semester, but also to deepen and expand our knowledge of them. And in a place like Rome, it's impossible to exhaust all the options for lessons.
Liturgical: Thursday of the First Week of Advent
Jesus said to his disciples:
"Not everyone who says to me, 'Lord, Lord,'
will enter the Kingdom of heaven,
but only the one who does the will of my Father in heaven.
Mt 7:21, 24-27
Bishop Barron's Gospel reflections today.
Sanctoral: Today the Roman Martyrology commemorates St. Sabbas (439-532), an anchorite who dedicated his life to prayer and manual labor... In Jerusalem he built a famous laura (as oriental monasteries are called), which bears his name. When the Arabs later conquered the Holy City, the monks fled to Rome, where they built a monastery and introduced the veneration of their saint. In the Eastern Church St. Sabbas ranks high in popular devotion; he is distinguished by the titles "God-bearer, the Saint, Citizen of the Holy City, Star of the Desert, Patriarch of Monks."
This is the Basilica of St Saba in Rome.
Human: Death of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (composer) – 1791
Natural: Electric eels lit a Christmas tree at the Living Planet Aquarium in Sandy, Utah – 2012
Italian: Scoiattolo (squirrel)
Quote: "What we need most in order to make progress is to be silent before this great God with our appetite and with our tongue, for the language he best hears is silent love."
- St. John of the Cross (1542 - 1591)
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