Calendar Class November 17, 2025

A Carpe Diem Snapshot:

The relic of Mantua has arrived! Come venerate it at San Salvatore in Lauro until the 25th of this month.

Liturgical: Monday of the 33rd Week in Ordinary Time

Jesus said to him, “Receive your sight; your faith has saved you.” Immediately he regained his sight and followed him, glorifying God; and all the people, when they saw it, praised God.

Luke 18:35-43

Sanctoral: The Church celebrates the Memorial of St. Elizabeth of Hungary (1207-1231), religious. She was the daughter of Andrew II, King of Hungary, and wife of Duke Louis IV of Thuringia. She is famous for her great kindness and inexhaustible charity towards the poor and the sick.

Human: 1558 Elizabeth I, aged 25, ascends the English throne upon the death of her half-sister, Queen Mary I

​1831 Ecuador and Venezuela separate from Gran Colombia

1922 The last sultan of the Ottoman Empire, Mehmed VI, is expelled to Malta on a British warship

Natural: Beauty and Mystery In the Night Sky--Aurora Borealis and the Language of Light

Italian: Formicolio (swarm / pins and needles)

If ants are known for one thing, it is their tendency to swarm, either during mating season and to collect food for the colony. This is where the first meaning for formicolio comes from, although it is mostly used to talk about swarms of people rather than ants or other insects.

Quote: "Wonder rises in us because we sense that the beauty and mystery we are beholding has a deep and ancient meaning."

-Sheila Carroll, in today's Natural Cycle link