A Carpe Diem Snapshot:
Tubing on the lake with courageous Cordelia, a Daddy gratitude journal, and a somewhat toothless grin-- the sweetest Father's Day gifts from the baby of the family. Happy Father's Day, Tony!
Liturgical: Eleventh Sunday of Ordinary Time
Yet we are courageous, and we would rather leave the body and go home to the Lord. Therefore, we aspire to please him, whether we are at home or away.
For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each may receive recompense, according to what he did in the body, whether good or evil.
Fr. Plant's Homily
Bishop Barron's Homily
Sanctoral: Benno of Meissen, Germany +1106
Human: Father's Day (U.S.A.) 1972
The Writer's Almanac edition for today has a little history on how this American holiday came to be. In traditionally Catholic countries, such as Italy, Father's Day is celebrated on March 19, the Feast of St. Joseph, the patron saint of fathers.
An article on Fatherhood by philosopher John Cuddeback
Natural: First female in space, Valentina V. Tereshkova, was launched into orbit in Soviet Vostok VI– 1963
Italian Idiom of the Day: Essere buono come il pane (to be good-natured)
A Book I Browsed Today: Amusing Ourselves to Death, Neil Postman (the 20th anniversary edition with a new introduction by his son, Andrew)
Quote: “Form will determine the nature of content.” --Neil Postman
"The medium is the message." --Marshal McLuhan
"This “diabolic imagination” dominates most popular fiction today; and on television and in the theaters, too, the diabolic imagination struts and postures."
-- Russell Kirk
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