A Carpe Diem Snapshot:
Spring seems more like a better time to begin new resolutions and adventures than bleak January, and it has certainly felt like Spring in Villa Pamphili Park lately. Happening upon friendly Italians yesterday, the girls got a chance to try out a favorite circus skill we've been meaning to practice more this year- balancing!
Liturgical: Tuesday of the Second Week of Lent Whoever exalts himself will be humbled; but whoever humbles himself will be exalted.
Station church: Santa Balbina
Sanctoral: Gregory of Narek, Armenia (950-1005) Added to the Sanctoral Calendar of the Roman rite in 2021 Doctor of the Church, Armenian monk, poet, mystical philosopher, theologian, writer and saint of the Armenian Apostolic Church and Catholic Church
St. Gabriel of Our Lady of Sorrows, Italy (1838-1862) Patron of youth, students, seminarians
Human:
Equirria was celebrated for Mars, related to death and the underworld.
4 AD – Octavian Augustus’ grandson dies – Gaius Julius Caesar.
272 AD – emperor Constantine the Great was born. He won the civil war that followed the death of Diocletian. Then he strengthened his power and took over independent governments. He carried out a series of internal reforms, moved the capital from Rome to Constantinople and ended the persecution of Christians, which was led by his predecessor Diocletian. He was the first emperor who converted to Christianity. In 313 AD he issued the Edict of Milan, proclaiming the freedom of religion for Christianity.
380 AD – the Eastern Roman Emperor Theodosius the Great issued the Edict of Thessalonica. The act required all Theodosius’ subordinates to accept the Christian faith in the Holy Trinity in the form adopted by the Council of Nicea in 325 AD.
425 AD – the University of Constantinople was founded by the order of emperor Theodosius II at the suggestion of his wife Elia Eudocia Augusta.
Natural: For more natural energy in the morning, start your day with water, not coffee; sunshine, not screens, strolling, not scrolling, over-thanking, not overthinking.
Quote: “I will attempt, day by day, to break my will into pieces. I want to do God’s Holy Will, not my own.” -St. Gabriel Francis Possenti
What a good quote. And slacklines are hard!! Good luck 😅