A Carpe Diem Snapshot:
Sometimes a Carpe Diem moment is an encounter with something so small that we are forced to stop, stay still, and just wonder at its perfection and fragility. The girls found and named this new outdoor "pet" Frank Churchill.
Liturgical: Wednesday of the Fourth Week of Lent Can a mother forget her infant,
be without tenderness for the child of her womb? Even should she forget, I will never forget you.
Station church: San Paolo fuori le Mura
Sanctoral: St. Leander of Seville, Spain (534-600). He was bishop of Seville, preceding his brother St. Isidore of Seville. He fought against Arianism, presiding over the Council of Toledo and introduced the Nicene Creed to the Mass.
Human: 1826 – Pope Leo XII publishes the apostolic constitution Quo Graviora in which he renewed the prohibition on Catholics joining freemasonry.
2013-- the papal conclave elects Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio taking the name Pope Francis as the 266th Pope of the Catholic Church.
1599 – birthday of John Berchmans, Belgian Jesuit scholastic and saint (d. 1621). Buried in the church of Sant'Ignazio, Rome.
Natural: National Elephant Day (Thailand)-- the rare white elephant is the national animal of Thailand and holds significance in Buddhist and Hindi mythology.
Quote: "God is more interested in our future than in our past-- in the kind of person we can become than in the kind of person we used to be." -- Fr. Wade Menezes
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