A Carpe Diem Snapshot:
The waxing Full Snow Moon of February made an appearance above the heads of the still saints atop Bernini's colonnade last night in St. Peter's Square (with a very bright planet- Saturn? Venus?- just beneath it). The evenings in Rome are mild enough right now to enjoy a gelato and stroll outside at dusk. The humidity level, however, rises quickly after sundown so the traditional Sunday passaggiata was a shortened one.
Liturgical: Readings for the Memorial of Saint Scholastica, Virgin
And so it happened:
God made the two great lights,
the greater one to govern the day,
and the lesser one to govern the night;
and he made the stars.
God set them in the dome of the sky,
to shed light upon the earth,
to govern the day and the night,
and to separate the light from the darkness.
God saw how good it was.
Bishop Barron's Gospel reflections today.
Sanctoral: Today is the Memorial of St. Scholastica (480-547). She was the twin sister of St. Benedict, the Patriarch of Western monasticism. She was born in Umbria, Italy, about 480. Under Benedict's direction, Scholastica founded a community of nuns near the great Benedictine monastery Monte Cassino. Inspired by Benedict's teaching, his sister devoted her whole life to seeking and serving God. She died in 547 and tradition holds that at her death her soul ascended to heaven in the form of a dove.
Human: 60 St. Paul is thought to have been shipwrecked at Malta; 1763 Treaty of Paris ends the French-Indian War, France agrees to surrender Canada to Great Britain; 1840 British Queen Victoria (20) marries her cousin Albert (20) of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, later the Prince Consort at St James' Palace; Death of Laura Ingalls Wilder (author) – 1957
The Writer's Almanac edition today.
Natural: 1996--IBM chess-playing computer Deep Blue becomes the first computer to win a game of chess against a reigning human chess champion, Garry Kasparov
Italian: Granchio (crab)
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