A Carpe Diem Snapshot:
The Art and Architecture students have a trained eye for spotting momento mori symbols in churches and all throughout Rome, including this cute smiling skull in the Chiesa Nuova, where Philip Neri, the Apostle of Rome, is buried. Every church, we have learned, is a momento mori, and the entire season of Lent is a momento mori, beginning with the reminder "Man, thou art dust, and unto dust thou shall return." The old stoic practice of "remembering your death" has enjoyed a revival of late, which I fully support as it leads one to better appreciate the here and now, and to "Carpe Diem" in the best sense of the phrase.
Liturgical: Thursday of the Second Week of Lent Blessed is the man who trusts in the LORD, whose hope is the LORD.
Station Church: Santa Maria in Trastevere
Sanctoral: Oswald, archbishop of York (925-992)
Human: 1692 First people are accused of witchcraft in Salem, Massachusetts - Sarah Good, Sarah Osborne and Tituba, a West Indian slave
Natural: What is a leap year?
Quote: "Lent is a time of grace, a time for conversion, a time to come home to God." -St. Maximilian Kolbe
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