A Carpe Diem Snapshot:
Yesterday we started something new for Four Season Schole- a "Friday Club," with our other homeschooled friend in Rome. The idea was to prepare for the major seasonal feast of Autumn, this year to be held on Thanksgiving. The girls did a whole lot of dressing up and make-believe games rather than sit-down studies, but I did manage to at least create this plan for the month on the white board. This visual aid helps me explain to the girls, and the students, all the many ways we can Carpe Diem in Rome this month (as for hunting, we probably won't be hunting cinghiale, but there is the option of partaking in the ancient tradition of truffle hunting, if you like expensive stinky mushrooms). One new activity for November that the girls are very enthusiastic about, begun by our residential director this past week, is the Villa Magnolia charity market on Wednesdays. Items are donated (or created) to be sold for just 50 cents or 1 euro to the community to raise money for Masses for the poor souls in purgatory. We've enjoyed this new tradition so much that we are planning to make it a "monthly market" with a new charitable fundraising theme each month.
Liturgical: Thirty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time
Just as it is appointed that human beings die once,
and after this the judgment, so also Christ,
offered once to take away the sins of many,
will appear a second time, not to take away sin
but to bring salvation to those who eagerly await him.
Bishop Barron's Sunday Sermon: Trusting God in Dire Straits
Fr. Plant's Homily: Two Small Coins
Sanctoral: Remember to pray for the Poor Souls in Purgatory through the month of November. The Memorial of St. Leo the Great, which is ordinarily celebrated today, is superseded by the Sunday liturgy.
Human: Birthday of Martin Luther (founder of the Lutheran church) – 1483, Statue of Our Lady of Prompt Succor first in the United States to be canonically crowned, New Orleans, Louisiana– 1895, 1619 René Descartes has a dream that inspires his "Meditations on First Philosophy", 1674 Dutch formally cede New Netherland (New York) to the English, 1940 Walt Disney begins serving as an informer for the Los Angeles office of the FBI; his job is to report back information on Hollywood subversives.
The Writer's Almanac edition today.
Natural: The S.S. Edmund Fitzgerald, an ore boat with 29 crewmen aboard, sank during a storm on Lake Superior– 1975. Here is the Great Lakes Shipwreck museum in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.
Italian: Sputa il rospo! (Spit it out!)
Quote: “The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.” ― René Descartes
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