Liturgical: Second Sunday in Ordinary Time | USCCB
Homily from Fr. Geoffrey Plant: Behold, the Lamb of God. Homily for the 2nd Sunday of Ordinary Time, Year B. (youtube.com)
Homily from Bishop Barron: The Voice of Conscience - Bishop Barron's Sunday Sermon (youtube.com)
Sanctoral: Lazarus Devasahayam, India +1752 (canonized by Pope Francis on May 15, 2022) Lazarus Devasahayam: 'A saint for new beginnings' - Vatican News
Human:
*83 BC – Mark Antony was born. Excellent Roman commander, and at the same time, brilliant politician. His father died at a young age and his mother decided to marry again, this time with Publius Cornelius Lentulus Sara. However, he was executed on the orders of Cicero. Cicero’s attitude caused a great indignity in the young man. From then on, he hated Cicero.
*47 BC – Marcus Antonius Antyllusius was born, the eldest son of Antonius and Fulvia. After the assassination of Caesar in 44 BCE he, as a small child, was held by the conspirators as a hostage to ensure their safety from his father, Marc Antony, who then was the consul. He did not achieve much in his life, because immediately after the suicide of his father and Cleopatra, by the order of Augustus, he was decapitated.
Natural: How sugar affects the brain and body: This Is What Happens to Your Body When You Eat Sugar (health.com)
Quote: "It is not our part to master all the tides of the world, but to do what is in us for the succour of those years wherein we are set, uprooting the evil in the fields that we know, so that those who live after may have clean earth to till." -J.R.R. Tolkien (The Return of the King)
Today's Carpe Diem Snapshot: The J.R.R. Tolkien exhibit at the National Gallery of Modern Art, Rome.
The largest exhibition ever dedicated in Italy to Tolkien and his Middle-earth is coming to Rome (finestresullarte.info)
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