A Carpe Diem Snapshot:
It was difficult to choose just one Carpe Diem Snapshot from the multitude of worthy options from yesterday's excursions, but this stood out because who wouldn't smile at a caterpillar trail of tiny, humble Italian preschool children on a field trip to the overwhelmingly pompous Altare della Patria?
Liturgical: Tuesday of the Fourth Week of Lent A clean heart create for me, O God; give me back the joy of your salvation.
Station Church: San Lorenzo in Damaso
Sanctoral: Pope Innocent I, +417. Countered many heresies, reigned during the sack of Rome by Alaric the Goth in 410. 36 of his letters survive.
Human: 1938- Germany invaded and annexed Austria (WW II)
538 – Vitiges, king of the Ostrogoths ends his siege of Rome and retreats to Ravenna, leaving the city to the victorious Byzantine general, Belisarius
1088 – Election of Urban II as the 159th Pope of the Catholic Church. He is best known for initiating the Crusades.
Natural: March weather madness explained!
Quote: "We are living in alienation, in the salt waters of suffering and death, in a sea of darkness without light. The net of the Gospel pulls us out of the waters of death and brings us in the splendor of God's light, into true life. We must bring men and women out of the sea into the light of God...The purpose of our lives is to reveal God to men...Only when we meet the living God in Christ do we know what life is...There is nothing more beautiful than to be surprised by the Gospel, by the encounter with Christ..." -Pope Benedict XVI
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