A Carpe Diem Snapshot:
In Italy, a Carpe Diem moment can often be dining al fresco on an unseasonably warm day (and splurging on a bowl of homemade pasta with fresh seafood and a glass of chilled white wine).
Liturgical: Friday of the Fifth Week of Lent If I do not perform my Father’s works, do not believe me; but if I perform them, even if you do not believe me, believe the works, so that you may realize and understand that the Father is in me and I am in the Father.
Station church: Santo Stefano al Rotondo
Sanctoral: Nicholas Owen, Martyr. England +1606; Blessed Clemens August von Galen, Bishop of Münster (1933-1946)
Human: Death day of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (writer) – 1832 Info on his Italian Journey.
Natural: von Goethe's phenomenological approach to scientific observation- pretty interesting!
Quote: A selection of quotes by von Goethe:
"Few people have the imagination for reality."
"Love can do much, but duty more."
"Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do."
"There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings."
“Nothing can be compared to the new life that the discovery of another country provides for a thoughtful person. Although I am still the same I believe to have changed to the bones.”
“We are all pilgrims who seek Italy.”
"Yes, I have finally arrived to this Capital of the World! I now see all the dreams of my youth coming to life... Only in Rome is it possible to understand Rome."
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