A Carpe Diem Snapshot:
Buona Domenica da Roma!
Liturgical: Twenty-Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time
Brothers and sisters: He "for a little while" was made "lower than the angels, "that by the grace of God he might taste death for everyone.
For it was fitting that he, for whom and through whom all things exist, in bringing many children to glory, should make the leader to their salvation perfect through suffering. He who consecrates and those who are being consecrated all have one origin. Therefore, he is not ashamed to call them “brothers.”
Bishop Barron's Sunday Sermon: The Biblical Vision of the Family
Fr. Plant's Homily: The Two Became One Flesh
Sanctoral: Today the Universal Church celebrates the Optional Memorial of St. Bruno (1030-1101), who was born in Cologne, Germany. He became a priest and achieved fame as a professor of theology at Rheims. He decided to leave the world and pursue a life of complete solitude and prayer. He established his hermitage in Chartreuse, near Grenoble, France. Soon he attracted disciples and he established the first monastery of Carthusian monks. Pope Urban II called him to Rome, but later Bruno was able to establish a second monastery in Italy. He died in 1101 at Calabria.
In the USA and Canada it is also the Optional Memorial of Blessed Marie Rose Durocher (1811-1849). She was born Eulalie Durocher at St. Antoine in Quebec, Canada, and was the youngest of ten children. Assisting her brother, a parish priest, for 12 years she helped establish the first Canadian parish Sodality for young women. She lived a life of great poverty and remained unswerving in her concern for the poor. In 1843, she founded the Sisters of the Holy Name of Jesus and Mary, dedicated to Christian education, taking the name Sister Marie Rose. This Order first came to the U.S. in 1859.
Human: 1948 Paleoanthropologist Mary Leakey finds the first partial fossil skull of Proconsul africanus, an ancestor of apes and humans on Rusinga Island, Kenya; 1949 US President Harry Truman signs Mutual Defense Assistance Act (for NATO); 1951 Joseph Stalin proclaims the Soviet Union has the atomic bomb
The Writer's Almanac edition today.
Natural: 1956 Scientist Albert Sabin announces that his oral polio vaccine is ready for testing; it would soon supplant Jonas Salk's vaccine in many parts of the world; 2021 WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus recommends world's first Malaria vaccine (Mosquirix) for children after a pilot program was effective in Africa
Italian: Mangiarsi le mani (to kick oneself)
Quote: "Because it is not us that can judge our sins or know what is sin in the Lord's eyes. She has had a hard life, but so does every woman. But you'd think from the way she talked that she knew more about sin and salvation than the Lord God Himself, than them who have strove and labored with the sin in this human world." --Cora, in As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner.
It was on this day in 1930 that William Faulkner published As I Lay Dying. And on this same day in 1932, he published Light in August. He wrote As I Lay Dying in a couple of months during his night shifts at the University of Mississippi power plant. He said, "Before I began I said, I am going to write a book by which, at a pinch, I can stand or fall if I never touch ink again."
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