Calendar Class of August 10, 2025

A Carpe Diem Snapshot:

A portrait of the artist as a young woman... in what is now an unfinished shed, but will someday- hopefully soon- be a proper art studio. With Mecosta's first annual artisan and maker's fair coming up on August 30, Valentina is getting down to work today. Come see her finished artwork at the fair and support the village's new initiative!

Liturgical: Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time

Luke 12:32-34: Jesus said to his disciples: "Do not be afraid any longer, little flock, for your Father is pleased to give you the kingdom. Sell your belongings and give alms. Provide money bags for yourselves that do not wear out, an inexhaustible treasure in heaven that no thief can reach nor moth destroy. For where your treasure is, there also will your heart be."

Pope Leo's Sunday Angelus today: the video and the full text.

Bishop Barron's Sunday Sermon: What is Faith?

Fr. Plant's Homily-Scripture Lesson: Have Your Lamps Lit.

Sanctoral: Today the Church celebrates the Feast of Saint Lawrence (d. 258), who was chief among the seven deacons who served the Roman Church during the mid-third century. The young cleric held a position of great trust, caring for the goods of the Church and distributing its alms among the poor. He was arrested under the Emperor Valerian in 258, laid upon a gridiron and slowly roasted to death. Lawrence rejoiced in his gruesome martyrdom and died praying for the conversion of the city of Rome, in the hope that from it the faith of Christ might spread throughout the world.

Human: St. Lawrence's Day

When told by Roman officials to surrender the church’s valuables, St. Lawrence brought the city’s poor and sick. “Here is the church’s treasure,” he said. Rome didn’t find this amusing, and legend says he was put to death in A.D. 258 by being roasted on a grate, although some scholars say he was more likely beheaded. In either case, folks in southern Europe still mark this day. It is customary there to eat only cold meat in recognition of the reputed manner of his death. Fair weather on St. Lawrence’s Day presages a fair autumn.

Natural: The Milky Way Galaxy--

Finding Our Place Beneath the River of Light

Italian: Per un pelo (in the nick of time)

Quote: Fair weather on St. Lawrence’s Day [August 10] presages a fair autumn. 

–Weather folklore