Calendar Class of January 26, 2025

A Carpe Diem Snapshot:

Isn't it funny how, once you develop a passionate interest in something, the scales fall from your eyes and that thing jumps out at you everywhere you turn? This happened to me on the way to Mass today when I spotted this wisdom quote posted on an auto wash shop sign. I had to turn around and capture the scene for its incongruity as much as for its perennial wisdom.

Liturgical: Third Sunday in Ordinary Time, Sunday of the Word of God

"But God has put the body together, giving greater honor to the parts that lacked it, so that there should be no division in the body, but that its parts should have equal concern for each other. If one part suffers, every part suffers with it; if one part is honored, every part rejoices with it. Now you are the body of Christ, and each one of you is a part of it."

1 Corinthians 12:12-30

Bishop Barron's Sunday Sermon: You Can't Give What You Don't Have

Fr. Plant's Homily: This Text Is Being Fulfilled Even As You Listen

Sanctoral: The Optional Memorials of Saints Timothy and Titus, which are ordinarily celebrated today, are superseded by the Sunday liturgy.

An audio about today's saints.

Human: Michigan admitted as the 26th state of the Union – 1837; The Council of Trent issued its conclusions in the Tridentinum, establishing a distinction between Roman Catholicism and Protestantism 1564; Birthday of explorer Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza (Italian-French), in Rome (1852)

Natural: The science of the silence of snow

Italian: Rompere il ghiaccio (to break the ice)

Quote: "After a moment of silence, in which each made an unworded promise to each other, he said, "Now we won't be sober anymore. We'll look beyond the years—to the time when the war will be over and Jem and Jerry and I will come marching home and we'll all be happy again."

"We won't be—happy—in the same way," said Rilla.

"No, not in the same way. Nobody whom this war has touched will ever be happy again in quite the same way. But it will be a better happiness, I think, little sister—a happiness we've earned. We were very happy before the war, weren't we? With a home like Ingleside, and a father and mother like ours we couldn't help being happy. But that happiness was a gift from life and love; it wasn't really ours—life could take it back at any time. It can never take away the happiness we win for ourselves in the way of duty."

-Rilla of Ingleside by L.M. Montgomery