A Carpe Diem Snapshot:
"I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy." --Charles Baudelaire
Autumnal beauty is poignant, perhaps because it is so fleeting and we know what follows too quickly on its heels. There was a sharp drop in temperature during the night on the first of October, and suddenly we found ourselves in a new season. This video of mist rising as the heat of the morning sunlight hits the cooler waters captures the melancholic feel of early October. These shorter, colorful days practically beg us to stop and savor the shifting scenes before us.
Liturgical: Thursday of the Twenty-sixth Week in Ordinary Time
Job said:
Pity me, pity me, O you my friends,
for the hand of God has struck me!
Why do you hound me as though you were divine,
and insatiably prey upon me?
Oh, would that my words were written down!
Would that they were inscribed in a record:
That with an iron chisel and with lead
they were cut in the rock forever!
But as for me, I know that my Vindicator lives,
and that he will at last stand forth upon the dust;
Whom I myself shall see:
my own eyes, not another’s, shall behold him,
And from my flesh I shall see God;
my inmost being is consumed with longing.
Bishop Barron's Gospel reflections today.
Sanctoral: St. Theodore Guerin (1798-1856). She was born in France, joined the Sisters of Providence in 1823, taking the name Sister Saint Theodore. She was sent with five other sisters as missionaries to Indiana, USA in 1840. They established the Academy of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, the first Catholic women‘s liberal-arts college in the United States. Her work continued in Indiana and Illinois, establishing schools and orphanages and pharmacies, and a motherhouse for the Sisters of Providence. She died in 1856. She was canonized in 2006.
Human: 1849- The mystery of the demise of Edgar Allen Poe: was he a victim of political cooping or rabies? Find out more on the Writer's Almanac edition today.
Natural: A meteorite crashed through a roof in Golden, B.C. The homeowner, Ruth Hamilton, heard an explosion and found bits of the meteorite near her bed pillow, mere inches from where her head had been.– 2021. What are the chances that you could be hit by a meteorite? 1 in 250,000.
Italian: Scioglilingua (tongue-twister)
Quote: "A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world." --Maurice Chevalier
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