A Carpe Diem Snapshot : Carpe Plenam Lunam! Look up! Tonight we will see the brightest supermoon of the year. Last night we were gifted this incredible preview as we climbed the hill in Villa Pamphilj. When I turned around to check on the progress of the girls walking behind me, this was right before our eyes. Without even planning it, we caught a moonrise at sunset. Read all about this special moon in the Natural Cycle lesson below. Liturgical: Wednesday of the 31st Wee

A Carpe Diem Snapshot : The class and I stumbled upon this marching band in front of the Pantheon today, just in time to hear them play the Italian national anthem. A real Roman Carpe Diem moment! Liturgical : Tuesday of the 31st Week in Ordinary Time Romans 12:5-16ab So we, who are many, are one body in Christ, and individually we are members one of another. We have gifts that differ according to the grace given to us: prophecy, in proportion to faith; ministry, in minis

A Carpe Diem Snapshot : Capere pulchritudinem in morte! Seize beauty in death! Yesterday evening's Papal Mass for the Commemoration of All the Faithful Departed was held at the hauntingly lovely Campo Verano. Somehow, we managed to sit right up front, just four rows from the altar, and participate in what was a most unique open air, yet intimate, Mass. It was my first visit to this graceful land of the dead, which was built only yesterday, by Rome standards, in the early 1

A Carpe Diem Snapshot: One misty, moisty, morning, When cloudy was the weather, There I met an old man, Clothed all in leather, Clothed all in leather, With a cap under his chin. How do you do? And how do you do? And how do you do again? The morning broke all misty and moisty, creating a shroud for the dome of St. Peter's Basilica, where only yesterday we sat baking beneath summery sunshine for the Feast of All Saints. Today's weather is much more liturgically appropriate for