A Carpe Diem Snapshot:
With the semester wrapping up, the Art and Architecture class students have begun presenting their final assignment- the creation of their own crest, or coat of arms. The girls enjoy joining in and making their own as well. After some of the students' presentations the other night, they asked Cordelia to present hers and she enthusiastically complied. Her crest symbols included references to the meaning of her name (lions and mermaids!), and a few of her favorite things (orange cats and carrots, because they're orange). I gave her an A+. :)
Liturgical: Memorial of Saint Ambrose, Bishop and Doctor of the Church
Then he summoned his Twelve disciples and gave them authority over unclean spirits to drive them out and to cure every disease and every illness.
Bishop Barron's Gospel reflections today.
Sanctoral: The Church celebrates the Memorial of St. Ambrose (340-397), who was born at Treves in Gaul, a territory which embraced modern France, Britain, Spain, and part of Africa. He studied in Rome and later became governor of Liguria and Aemelia with residence at Milan. While supervising the election of a new bishop of Milan in 374, he himself was suddenly acclaimed the bishop. He was only a catechumen at the time and was ordained a priest and consecrated a bishop on December 7. He wrote much on the Scriptures and Fathers, preached a homily every Sunday, resisted the interference of the secular powers with the rights of the Church, opposed the heretics, and was instrumental in bringing about the conversion of St. Augustine. He composed many hymns, promoted sacred chant, and took a great interest in the Liturgy.
At dawn on Sunday, December 7, 1941, Japanese planes attacked the U.S. Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, in an attempt to cripple the fleet and hinder U.S. intervention in other Japanese targets in the South Pacific. The Japanese military expected that Germany would defeat Great Britain and the Soviet Union and that Japan would control the Pacific. The attack was opposed by Japanese admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, who cautioned against a war with the United States, but he was overruled. After the attack, he said, “We have awakened a sleeping giant and have instilled in him a terrible resolve.” He was right. Although airfields, port facilities, and warships were severely damaged and two battleships, the Utah and the Arizona, were destroyed, the attack mobilized the United States and signaled its entry into World War II. Today the Arizona is a memorial and a national park.
43 BC – Cicero was assassinated by order of Mark Antony during the purge of the enemies of Antony and Octavian. He was a Roman politician (supporter of the optimates), orator, philosopher, and a popularizer of Greek philosophy. He became famous for suppressing the Catiline conspiracy. According to the historian Livy, Cicero said, just before the soldier cut off his head: “I will die for the homeland that I have so often saved”.
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