A Carpe Diem Snapshot:
The Art and Architecture class was treated to a profound Carpe Diem moment today at Chiesa Nuova, where a Polish priest named Fr. Vladimir befriended us and gave us a tour of the rooms of St. Philip Neri, including this little chapel where witnesses saw him levitate during the consecration. Everything in these rooms put us in direct contact with the "Apostle of Rome," the city's co-patron, and it was all completely unplanned-- one of what I suspect will be many providential moments this semester.
Liturgical: Thursday of the 6th week of Ordinary Time
For your own lifeblood I will surely require a reckoning: from every animal I will require it and from human beings, each one for the blood of another, I will require a reckoning for human life.
Whoever sheds the blood of a human,
by a human shall that person’s blood be shed;
for in his own image
God made humankind.
Genesis 9:1-13
Bishop Barron's Gospel reflections.
Sanctoral: Saints Jacinta and Francisco Marto, Fatima, Portugal +1919 and +1920
Human: 1873 British Naval Officer John Moresby is the first European to discover Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, claims it for the United Kingdom
Natural: Carolyn Cummins gave birth to the first of her five children. The second was born in 1953, 3rd in 1956, 4th in 1961 and the 5th in 1966. All five children have the same birthday. – 1952
Scientists successfully regenerate the flowering plant Silene stenophylla from a 31,800-year-old piece of fruit, greatly surpassing the previous record of 2,000 years
Italian: Comò (chest of drawers)
Quote: “In a short time now I am going to heaven. You are to stay here and say that God wishes to establish in the world the devotion to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. . . . Tell everybody that God grants graces through the Immaculate Heart of Mary, and that they must ask them from her. Tell them that the Heart of Jesus wishes that by His side should be venerated the Immaculate Heart of Mary. Tell them to ask peace through the Immaculate Heart of Mary; God has placed it in her hands. Oh that I could put into the heart of everybody the flame that I feel burning within my breast and which makes me love so much the Heart of Jesus and the Heart of Mary.” -the final words of Jacinta Marto to Lucia dos Santos
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