A Carpe Diem Snapshot:
This still life snapshot was taken this morning during the hour or two when a sunbeam from the light of the morning sun shines in at angle on this side of the table. As I am heliotropic, it's where I set myself up for early morning studies. My Mom had pulled out this trifold, an invaluable 80th birthday gift she received from her sister, my Aunt Marie. Over tea, my Mom was able to tell us about all the people and memories from her life contained in the trifold, a visual time capsule.
Liturgical: Tuesday after Epiphany
Beloved, let us love one another,
because love is of God;
everyone who loves is begotten by God and knows God.
Whoever is without love does not know God, for God is love.
In this way the love of God was revealed to us:
God sent his only-begotten Son into the world
so that we might have life through him.
In this is love:
not that we have loved God, but that he loved us
and sent his Son as expiation for our sins.
Bishop Barron's Gospel reflections today.
Sanctoral: Today is Tuesday of Christmas Time after Epiphany and the Optional Memorial of St. Raymond of Penyafort, Priest (1175-1275). Born in Barcelona, Spain, St. Raymond of Peñafort was the third Superior-General of the Domincan Order. He is famous for his work in the freeing of slaves. He wrote five books of Decretals which are now a valuable part of the Canon Law of the Church. The Summa Casuum, which is about the correct and fruitful administration of the Sacrament of Penance, is the most notable of his works.
Human: It's the birthday of the man most responsible for reviving Hebrew as a spoken language, Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, born in Luzhki, part of the Russian Empire (1858). He wanted to make sure that Jewish people from around the world could communicate with each other. Though children from Jewish families often learned some Hebrew at Hebrew school, at the time no one on earth spoke modern Hebrew at home as a first language. Many European Jews spoke Russian or Yiddish, a Germanic language written in the Hebrew alphabet.
The Writer's Almanac edition today.
Natural: On this date in 1610, Galileo wrote a letter describing his discovery of three of Jupiter's moons. He had recently made some improvements to his telescope, and he discovered them in December. As he continued to observe them over the next few months, a fourth celestial body appeared, and he realized that they were actually orbiting the giant planet. Since most people at that time still believed in the Ptolemaic theory — that the Earth was the center of the universe and everything revolved around us — it was an important discovery. It went a long way toward confirming Copernicus's controversial theory that the Earth went around the Sun.
Italian: Mozzafiato (breathtaking)
Quote: “The enlightened conservative does not believe that the end or aim of life is competition; or success; or enjoyment; or longevity; or power; or possessions. He believes, instead, that the object of life is Love.” --Russell Kirk
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