A Carpe Diem Snapshot:
Winning the prize for our visitors who traveled the farthest this summer are Mr. and Mrs. Girard, pictured above, who came all the way from Papua New Guinea! OK, OK, they didn't travel all this way just to meet us, but rather their daughter Ulysa and all their other family members and church community. The Girards moved to PNG when Ulysa was just a tiny toddler and it has been home to them ever since. Their visits to the U.S. are infrequent, so we were privileged that our home was one of the stops along their way. After hearing Ulysa's tall tales for years, we were finally able to see the tree that her apple fell from and be entertained with some more incredible stories of life in PNG. Thanks to the Girards' storytelling abilities, we almost feel as though we've been there, and who knows, perhaps one day we shall be...
Liturgical: Saturday of the Fifteenth Week in Ordinary Time
Behold, my servant whom I have chosen, my beloved in whom I delight; I shall place my Spirit upon him, and he will proclaim justice to the Gentiles.
Bishop Barron's reflections today.
Sanctoral: St. Apollinaris, Bishop and Martyr; St. Margaret of Antioch, Virgin and Martyr; Elijah (Elias) the Prophet; St. Frumentius, Bishop
Human: Birthday of Petrarch (poet) – 1304, Alexander the Great (conqueror) - 356 BC, Gregor Mendel (monk and geneticist) - 1822, Tadeusz Reichstein, Polish-Swiss chemist (Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine 1950 - isolation and discovery of cortisone ) - 1897
The Writer's Almanac edition today.
Natural: National Moon Day- 1969, Neil Armstrong becomes the first human being to walk on the surface of the moon. The celebrations on earth are portrayed in the latest Indiana Jones movie, which I quite enjoyed on the airplane (some criticisms, naturally, but all the historical details made it worthwhile).
Italian Word of the Day: Talking about Family Members in Italian
Quote: "Think you, if Laura had been Petrarch's wife, He would have written sonnets all his life?" --Lord Byron, Don Juan, Canto 3 (1821), stanza 8
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