A Carpe Diem Snapshot:
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Liturgical: Memorial of Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton, Religious
"Whoever sins belongs to the Devil,
because the Devil has sinned from the beginning. Indeed, the Son of God was revealed to destroy the works of the Devil.
No one who is begotten by God commits sin, because God’s seed remains in him;
he cannot sin because he is begotten by God. In this way, the children of God and the children of the Devil are made plain..."
Bishop Barron's Gospel reflections today.
Sanctoral: Happy name day to me, Andrea Seton Kirk! It's the feast day of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton. Here's some more info (and more links) on this incredible woman.
Human: It's the birthday of Jacob Grimm, the elder of the Brothers Grimm, born in Hanau, Germany (1785). He and his brother volunteered to help some friends gather oral folktales for a research project. The Grimms did such a great job that one of their friends suggested that they publish the stories in book form. They did, and the stories filled several volumes, called Children's and Household Tales (1812-22). The collection was later renamed Grimms' Fairy Tales, and it included many stories whose names are familiar to us today: "Snow White," "Sleeping Beauty," "Rumpelstiltskin," and "Rapunzel," to name a few. The original Grimm versions were violent and scary, but the stories have been significantly toned down over the years.
The Writer's Almanac edition today.
Natural: Today is the birthday of Sir Isaac Newton, born in Woolsthorpe, England (1643). He was born very prematurely and so small that it was said that he could fit into a quart pot. His father had died three months before Newton was born, and the plan was for the boy to take over the running of the family farm when he grew up. He wasn't a good farmer, and his uncle suggested that he be sent to the university instead. He went to Cambridge, and when it was shut down during a plague outbreak, Newton went home and studied mathematics and physics on his own. It was during this time that he first developed his theories of gravity and optics. His first published scientific achievement was the invention of a reflecting telescope.
At the age of 43, Newton published his Principia, which overturned nearly everything humankind had believed about the universe up to that point. He proved that the celestial bodies were governed by the same laws of physics as objects on Earth. He incorporated Kepler's laws of planetary motion into his own theories about gravity, and established his own Three Laws of Motion.
Sir Isaac Newton, who wrote, "I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me."
Italian: Conoscere vs Sapere in Italian: What’s the difference?
Quote: In This Season of Waiting
by Linda Pastan
Under certain conditions,
when the moon in the western sky
seems frozen there, for instance
even as the sun is rising in the east,
so that soon two sides of the coin
will be facing each other;
or when the snow
which is a stranger here
fills our trees with its cold flowers;
when the single
bluejay at the feeder
is so still
it could be enameled there,
then the earth becomes an emblem
for whatever we believe.
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