A Carpe Diem Snapshot:
While Cordelia is benefitting in many ways from spending her days in a structured school environment with other high energy bambini like herself, Valentina and her Austrian friend are soaking up the benefits (and sunshine) of homeschool, captured in this video yesterday as we strolled along the Tiber after Art and Architecture class. They are lucky little ladies, indeed.
Liturgical: Friday of the Thirty-first Week in Ordinary Time
But our citizenship is in heaven, and from it we also await a savior, the Lord Jesus Christ. He will change our lowly body to conform with his glorified Body by the power that enables him also to bring all things into subjection to himself.
Therefore, my brothers and sisters,whom I love and long for, my joy and crown, in this way stand firm in the Lord, beloved.
Bishop Barron's Gospel reflections today.
Today is the last day to gain the special plenary indulgences during November 1-8 for the Faithful Departed.
Sanctoral: Blessed John Duns Scotus (1266-1308), a Scottish Franciscan priest and theologian who died in 1308. He was beatified in 1993 and the founder of the Scotistic School in Theology, and until the time of the French Revolution his thought dominated the Roman Catholic faculties of theology in nearly all the major universities of Europe. He is chiefly known for his theology on the Absolute Kingship of Jesus Christ, the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary, and his philosophic refutation of evolution. He is also known as the "Doctor of Mary Immaculate" because of his defense of the Immaculate Conception.
An audio biography.
Human: 308 AD – the congress in Carnuntum took place. To maintain peace in the Roman Empire, the leaders of the tetrarchy proclaim Maxentius and Licinius the two Augusti, while their rival Constantine I was proclaimed Caesar of Britain and Gaul.
Natural: X-rays discovered by German physicist Wilhelm Roentgen– 1895
Italian: Eventualmente (if necessary)
Quote: “Out of charity, out of justice, and out of excusable selfishness — we should have frequently on our lips this plea to God for those who have gone before us: ‘Requiem aeternam dona eis, Domine.’"
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