A Carpe Diem Snapshot:
Fashion influencer Cordelia is sporting a Viking look lately and we all followed suite for her birthday party today. The pinata didn't stand a chance against those battle axes!
Liturgical: Second Sunday in Ordinary Time
Brothers and sisters:
There are different kinds of spiritual gifts but the same Spirit; there are different forms of service but the same Lord;
there are different workings but the same God who produces all of them in everyone.
To each individual the manifestation of the Spirit is given for some benefit.
Bishop Barron's Sunday Sermon: The Marriage of Divinity and Humanity
Fr. Plant's Homily: A Wedding at Cana
Sanctoral: Saint Wulfstan, England (1008–1095 A. D.)Preached against the slave trade in Bristol and helped bring an end to it.
Human: Today is the 8th Birthday of Cordelia Anne-Marie Veronica Assaf! Her first name has several literary connections, as you may have guessed-- Anne of Green Gables (who wished to be called Cordelia), Cordelia of King Lear, Lady Cordelia of Brideshead Revisited. Cordelia is the anglicized version of Creiddylad, the Welsh daughter of the sea god, which means "jewel of the sea." The name could also be derived from the French coeur de lion, meaning heart of a lion. She certainly is one tough Cookie!
Also, it is the birthday of Edgar Allan Poe (1809). His poem "The Raven" is one of his best-known works, and it is also one of the most popular poems in the English language. Even people who have no interest in poetry can usually recite a line or two. It's narrated by a studious young man who is mourning the loss of his lover, Lenore. When a talking raven visits him on a bleak December night, we follow his descent from amusement into madness. At the time he was writing the poem, Poe's young wife, Virginia, was slowly dying of tuberculosis.
The Writer's Almanac edition today.
Natural: Cordelia's favorite birthday cake recipe: banana bread cake
Italian: Farsi in quattro (to put in a lot of effort)
Quote: an excerpt from the poem "Cordelia" by William Michael Rosseti
Cordelia--a name well revered;
Synonymous with truth and tried
Affection; which but needs be heard
To raise one selfsame thought endeared
To men and women far and wide;
A name our mothers taught to us.
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