A Carpe Diem Snapshot: If you have ever wanted to live on your very own not-quite-private island, this place is for you! We will be interviewing potential neighbors in the order in which your application arrives. ;) Michigan is blessed with 500 islands, all the legacy of the absolutely enormous glaciers that sculpted this beautiful state, including our very own School Section Lake.
Liturgical: Memorial of St. Barnabas, Apostle
"Just so, your light must shine before others, that they may see your good deeds
and glorify your heavenly Father.”
Sanctoral: Barnabas, Apostle, who was designated by the Holy Spirit to share the charge and mission of the twelve Apostles, is venerated by the Church as one of them. He played an important part in the first extension of Christianity outside the Jewish world. It was Barnabas who presented St. Paul to the other Apostles when, after his long retreat in Arabia, he came to Jerusalem for the first time after his conversion to submit for Peter's approval the mission to the Gentiles entrusted to him by the Master Himself. Barnabas was Paul's companion and helper on his first missionary journey and returned with him to Jerusalem, but left him when he set out on his second journey and went to Cyprus. The name of St. Barnabas is mentioned in the Canon of the Mass.
Human: 1184 BC Trojan War: Troy is sacked and burned, according to calculations by Eratosthenes.
396 BC – dictator Marcus Furius Camillus dedicated a temple in the Forum Boarium to the goddess Mater Matuta, the guardian of women and childbirth.
1509 King Henry VIII (17) of England marries first wife Catherine of Aragon (23), widow of his brother Arthur
1963 US President JFK says segregation is morally wrong and that it is "time to act"
1987 Margaret Thatcher is the first British Prime Minister in 160 years to win a third consecutive term
Natural: The glaciers that shaped Michigan!
Italian Word of the Day: Abbastanza (enough / quite)
Quote: "I've got a woman's ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it." --British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher
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