Calendar Class of July 18, 2025

A Carpe Diem Snapshot:

I promise this isn't becoming a fishing blog, but yesterday did provide two Carpe Piscis moments worth sharing. The first was Cordelia's tiny catch of a bluegill on School Section Lake in the morning, and the second was this bigger catch of a small mouth bass on Portage Lake in the late evening (with a little help from our fisherman friend Jason here!). Tony grilled them both up with garlic and we had a little feast of fish at nearly midnight.

Liturgical: Friday of the Fifteenth Week in Ordinary Time

I tell you, something greater than the temple is here. But if you had known what this means, ‘I desire mercy and not sacrifice,’ you would not have condemned the guiltless. For the Son of Man is lord of the sabbath.”

Matthew 12:1-8

Bishop Barron's Gospel reflections today.

Sanctoral: The Church celebrates the Optional Memorial of St. Camillus de Lellis (1550-1641). Camillus suffered an incurable wound in his foot, experienced the horrors of the Roman hospitals in the sixteenth century in which the nursing and other staff were drawn from the dregs of the population. He effected a great change for the better, not content with making himself a slave of the sick and diseased he established for them a congregation of Clerks Regular pledged to this work, even when it involved those suffering from the plague, and whatever their state of life or disease.

St. Camillus died in Rome on July 14, 1614. Leo XIII proclaimed him patron of hospitals and the sick and Pius XI declared him the protector of all nuns who care for the sick. His name has been inserted in the Litany for the dying.

(Maya was born in the hospital that bears his name in Trastevere, San Camillo)

An audio.

Human: 390 BC--The Battle of the Allia River, Rome’s Crushing Defeat by the Gauls

(Henceforth in the Roman Calendar, this date became known as dies ater, the unfortunate day. It was a major psychological and military turning point in Roman history)

452 AD– The Huns suddenly invaded Italy and occupied Aquileia, then Pavia and Milan. Aquileia never regained its former meaning, its role was gradually taken over by Venice.

Death of John Paul Jones (naval commander) – 1792, Jane Austen (author ) – 1817, Eugene Shoemaker (American astrogeologist) – 1997, Gerry Thomas (invented the TV dinner and helped revolutionize food marketing and distribution) – 2005

President Harry Truman signed the Presidential Succession Act into law which places the Speaker of the House and the Senate President Pro Tempore next in the line of succession after the United States Vice President – 1947

Natural: Pierre and Marie Curie announced the discovery of a new element and called it polonium – 1898 (the video in the link is all about poisonous chemicals)

Italian: Demordere (to give up / to throw in the towel)

Quote: "Give a child a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a child to fish and you feed him for a lifetime."