A Carpe Diem Snapshot:
Today we Carpe Diemed and zipped over to the home of some dear friends to say goodbye before we head back to Rome. The girls wanted one more climb up to the roof of our friends' little shed, their preferred perch. Apparently, they are not alone in this, as I was told today that this a favorite activity of all the kids who come for visits. When I was little, I used to climb around the roof of my Dad's library building all the time. It's very satisfying to a child to be able to do something slightly dangerous like climb a roof, which is normally against the rules, and then to see the world from a unique, all-encompassing perspective. I suppose it makes little people feel like giants for a moment. It was fortuitous that we were able to stop by these particular friends' home today, as it happens to be National Coffee Day, and my friend just produced a highly informative and engaging documentary on coffee! Visit the link below.
Liturgical: Twenty-Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time
There is no one who performs a mighty deed in my name who can at the same time speak ill of me. For whoever is not against us is for us. Anyone who gives you a cup of water to drink because you belong to Christ, amen, I say to you, will surely not lose his reward.
Bishop Barron's Sunday Sermon: Whoever is Not Against Us is For Us
Fr. Plant's Homily: A Map for the Journey
Fr. Schmitz's Homily: Desperate for Freedom
Sanctoral: Today's feast of Michael, Gabriel & Raphael, Archangels is superseded by the Sunday Liturgy. Here is a hauntingly beautiful arrangement for the St. Michael prayer.
Human: National Days today-- Coffee Day, Gold Star Mothers Day, VFW Day, Urban Wildlife Refuge Day
In honor of National Coffee Day, here is a recent episode of The Moral Imagination podcast by Michael Matheson Miller: The Wonder of the Ordinary, Ignoring the Invisible, and Gratitude as an Antidote to Ideology (with a short film, "The Wonder of Coffee")
In the Christian world, today is Michaelmas, feast day of the archangel Michael, which was a very important day in times past, falling near the equinox and so marking the fast darkening of the days in the northern world — the boundary of what was and what is to be. Today was the end of the harvest and the time for farm folk to calculate how many animals they could afford to feed through the winter and which would be sold or slaughtered. It was the end of the fishing season, the beginning of hunting, the time to pick apples and make cider.
More on the Writer's Almanac today.
Natural: 20 Coffee Brewing Methods
Italian: Avere sale in zucca (to be wise / sensible)
Quote: The St. Michael Prayer
St. Michael the Archangel,
defend us in battle.
Be our defense against the wickedness and snares of the Devil.
May God rebuke him, we humbly pray,
and do thou,
O Prince of the heavenly hosts,
by the power of God,
thrust into hell Satan,
and all the evil spirits,
who prowl about the world
seeking the ruin of souls. Amen.
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