A Carpe Diem Snapshot:
Here is sweet photo captured yesterday of Cordelia picking July flowers with her new friend. No sooner had we said goodbye to our Ukrainian friend then we said hello to our Chinese friends, now U.S. citizens, who are visiting Mecosta for a few days. The father of the family accomplished an amazing feat by translating my Dad's weighty tome, The Roots of American Order, into Mandarin Chinese!
Liturgical: Monday of the Fourteenth Week in Ordinary Time
“My daughter has just died. But come, lay your hand on her, and she will live.” Jesus rose and followed him, and so did his disciples.
Bishop Barron's reflections today.
Sanctoral: Gregory Grassi and Companions, mutilated and beheaded during the Boxer Uprising in China, +1900.
Blessed Peter Vigne (1670-1740), France
Priscilla and Aquila, a 1st century Jewish couple from Rome who had been exiled to Corinth, were friends of St. Paul in the first century and mentioned in the Acts of the Apostles. They hosted St. Paul on his visit to that city and he was probably instrumental in their conversion.
Human: Birthday of psychiatrist and writer Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, born in 1926 in Zurich, Switzerland, - the author of Death and Dying, which led to the creation of Hospice Care; Birthday of French psychologist Alfred Binet, born in Nice, France (1857), the father of the standardized test, the Stanford-Binet; Birthday of Jean de la Fontaine (poet and fabulist) – 1621; Death of Percy Bysshe Shelley (poet) off the course of Italy, buried in Rome – 1822; NASA launched its last space shuttle, Atlantis, from Cape Canaveral, Florida– 2011; Today is considered the birthday of Paris, as it was on this day in 52 BC that Julius Caesar’ s legions captured a small fishing village Lutetia Parisiorum – the area of future Paris.
The Writer's Almanac edition for today.
Natural: Dr. Amen's Brain Type Quiz-- who doesn't love a free quiz? And this one will provide some motivation to adopt healthier habits to take care of your most important organ.
What are the best perennial vegetables I can grow?
Start with asparagus, horseradish, Jerusalem artichoke, lovage, and rhubarb, and you may have a bountiful harvest for up to 20 years without having to replant them.
Italian Word of the Day: Spaventapasseri (scarecrow)
Quote: “A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own. The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.”
― Percy Bysshe Shelley, A Defence of Poetry and Other Essays
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