A Carpe Diem Snapshot:
It was an unusually busy morning in Mecosta, from a lecture at the Kirk Center, to a room full of kids at the township library, to deliciousness at the Coffee and Cream Cafe. The large chalkboard there informed us that yesterday was National Blueberry Day. I was aghast that I, the creator of Calendar Class, had missed this important holiday. Upon further research, it seems that the holiday has been extended to the entire month of July since 2020. Nevertheless, we felt compelled to immediately get over to the blueberry farm down the street and do some picking so that Valentina could make us a pie and we could belatedly celebrate the berry. Here is the wonderful Pastor Dar Howard helping us weigh our little blue treats. Read all about these tasty antioxidants in the natural cycle lesson below.
Liturgical: Tuesday of the Fourteenth Week in Ordinary Time
"Amen, amen, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains just a grain of wheat; but if it dies, it produces much fruit."
Bishop Barron's reflections today.
Sanctoral: Opt Mem of St. Augustine Zhao Rong, Priest, and Companions, Martyrs. Saint Augustine Zhao Rong (1746-1815) was a Chinese diocesan priest who was martyred with his 119 other Chinese Catholics.
St. Veronica Giuliani (1660-1727), one of the greatest mystics of history. She had many revelations and received the stigmata.
Human: Edmund Burke died on 9 July 1797 in Beaconsfield in Buckinghamshire, while the French Revolution was ongoing. Coincidentally, the Kirk Center hosted a lecture on Burke just this morning with Burke scholar Ian Crowe, who addressed interns from the Acton Institute. Though he died on this day in England, Burke is still alive and well in Mecosta.
The Writer's Almanac edition today.
Natural: July is National Blueberry Month! If you're local, head over to the Little River Ranch in Mecosta, where the bushes are bursting with berries right now!
Italian Word of the Day: Dunque (so / then / therefore / well)
Quote: A few gems from Edmund Burke
“Society is a partnership of the dead, the living and the unborn.”
“The greatest gift is a passion for reading.”
“The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.”
“The human mind is often, and I think it is for the most part, in a state neither of pain nor pleasure, which I call a state of indifference.”
“As the rose-tree is composed of the sweetest flowers and the sharpest thorns, as the heavens are sometimes overcast—alternately tempestuous and serene—so is the life of man intermingled with hopes and fears, with joys and sorrows, with pleasure and pain.”
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