Calendar Class of July 14, 2025

A Carpe Diem Snapshot:

The boys are back in town: Aunt Marie's early birthday celebration brought together most of the boy cousins for a limited time only, so we captured the moment for posterity!

Liturgical: Monday of the 15th Week of Ordinary Time

Those who find their life will lose it, and those who lose their life for my sake will find it.

Matthew 10:34—11:1

Sanctoral: Kateri Tekakwitha (1656 – April 17, 1680)

We like to think that our proposed holiness is thwarted by our situation. If only we could have more solitude, less opposition, better health. Kateri Tekakwitha repeats the example of the saints: Holiness thrives on the cross, anywhere. Yet she did have what Christians—all people—need: the support of a community. She had a good mother, helpful priests, Christian friends. These were present in what we call primitive conditions, and blossomed in the age-old Christian triad of prayer, fasting and almsgiving: union with God in Jesus and the Spirit, self-discipline and often suffering, and charity for her brothers and sisters.

Human: Bastille Day, France

Commemorates the storming of the Bastille, which started the French Revolution, on July 14th, 1789. Bastille Day is also celebrated by many of France’s former and current colonies.

Birthday of Gerald Ford (38th U.S. president) – 1913

The first World’s Fair to be held in the United States opened in New York City – 1853

In Germany, the Nazi party declared themselves the only political party – 1933

Natural: A human chain (a line of people holding hands) rescued a swimmer caught in a rip current in Panama City Beach, Florida – 2019

How to swim out of rip currents- very important to know!

Italian: Sagoma (outline / shape)

Quote: Build a castle, comb a beach; summer's ripe as any peach!

- The Old Farmer's Almanac, 1996