A Carpe Diem Snapshot:
Earlier this morning I experienced what the Swedes call "Gökotta," taking in all the bird song and the slowly rolling mist over the surface of the water before most of the world wakes up. Whenever I manage to wake before or at dawn, a Carpe Diem moment presents itself. Growing up in a family of night owls, I missed these moments for the majority of my life, being subject to a thick brain fog that made pre-dawn risings a physical impossibility. But, thanks to a tip from Valentina's kindergarten teacher about gaining energy for the morning through eliminating sugar from one's diet, I was eventually able to turn myself into a morning lark, and that has made all the difference.
Liturgical: Wednesday of the Twenty-second Week in Ordinary Time
"I planted, Apollos watered, but God caused the growth. Therefore, neither the one who plants nor the one who waters is anything, but only God, who causes the growth. He who plants and he who waters are one, and each will receive wages in proportion to his labor. For we are God’s co-workers; you are God’s field, God’s building."
Bishop Barron's Gospel reflections today: "In the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries, in an attempt to make Jesus more palatable to rationalists and “realists,” theologians put great stress on Jesus’ preaching, especially his ethical teaching.But this is not the Jesus that Luke presents. Rather, he is a healer—Soter, rendered in Latin as salvator, which just means “the bearer of the salus” or health. Jesus is portrayed as a healer, a savior. In him, divinity and humanity have come together; in him, the divine life and divine power are breaking through. God’s deepest intentions for his beloved creatures appears—what God plans for us in the kingdom to come is now historically anticipated."
Sanctoral: —Moses, the Prophet whom God chose to free the Israelites who were oppressed In Egypt and bring them to the Promised Land, to whom he also revealed himself on Mount Sinai, saying, "I Am Who Am" and proposed a law that would govern the life of the Chosen People. He died on Mount Nebo of the land Of Moab died before the Promised Land.
—Saint Rosalia (1130-1160), patrons saint of her native Palermo in Sicily. For sixteen years she passed her life as a recluse in a cave on a hillside on Mount Pellegrino, three miles from Palermo, and died there at the age of thirty (A.D. 1160). She was famous for the austere penitential life and for the many miracles wrought in answer to her prayers.
—The Canadian mystic Bl. Marie Dina Belanger (1897-1929) who was beatified by Pope St. John Paul II on March 20, 1993.
Human: Los Angeles founded by Spanish settlers– 1781: The city was originally named “El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Ángeles de Porciúncula,” which translates to “The Town of Our Lady the Queen of Angels of Porciúncula.” (after this Franciscan basilica in Assisi, Italy)
Russian decree issued concerning Northwest America– 1821
476 AD – the last Roman emperor Romulus Augustulus was overthrown and exiled to Naples by Odoacer, who gave him an estate near today’s Naples, and ordered to pay an annual pension of 6 000 solids (this sum is roughly the annual income of a Roman senator). Romulus lived in the Villa Castellum Lucullanum. The end of his reign and sending the imperial insignia back to Constantinople by Odoacer is considered to be the end of the West Roman Empire. His further fate is unknown. He probably lived for a long time and collected a pension from both Odoacer and his successors, including Theodoric the Great.
The Writer's Almanac edition today.
Natural: Banishing Brain Fog in the Morning
Italian: Angelo (angel)
Quote: Procrastination is the thief of time.
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