Calendar Class of April 11, 2025

A Carpe Diem Snapshot:

It's the final Friday of Lent, and I finally made it to the Stations of the Cross stairway at San Pietro in Montorio. It was a small gathering this evening, but the scarcity of participants made the ritual more authentic, more similar to the actual event that is being remembered.

Liturgical: Friday of the Fifth Week of Lent Mass readings and Bishop Barron's Gospel reflections

If I am not doing the works of my Father, then do not believe me. But if I do them, even though you do not believe me, believe the works, so that you may know and understand that the Father is in me and I am in the Father.”

John 10:31-42

Sanctoral: Saint Stanislaus, patron of Poland, July 26, 1030 – April 11, 1079

Human: 146 AD – Septimius Severus was born. Roman leader, governor of Pannonia (today’s Hungary), where he was proclaimed as the new emperor after the death of Pertinax and Commodus. After a few years of civil war, he defeated his competitors: Didius Julius, Pescennius Niger, and Clodius Albinus. He started a new dynasty, the Severan.

217 AD – Macrinus became the new emperor three days after Caracalla’s assassination – thus the Severan dynasty ended. Macrinus cleverly eliminated all suspicion of his involvement in the plot, demonstrating his grief. The army – without finding a better candidate – proclaimed Macrinus the new emperor.

Natural: Forty-eight tornadoes hit the midwest – 1965

Italian: Ruzzolone (tumble / hard fall)

Quote: For everything you have missed, you have gained something else. —Ralph Waldo Emerson