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Calendar Class of July 24, 2025

  • Writer: Andrea Kirk Assaf
    Andrea Kirk Assaf
  • Jul 24
  • 2 min read

A Carpe Diem Snapshot:

Morning broke all misty and moist, with a balmy breeze. My sister Felicia said it looked like Washington state. But what images can't capture is the feel and sound of the wind, that invisible force that so affects our experience of the weather. Wind is a perpetually mysterious and elusive phenomenon. These last few days have been intoxicating at the lake thanks to the movement of air over the water. It obliges one to simply stop and soak in the wonder of the feeling of warm breezes ruffling the surface of the water, hair, wind chimes, and skin. As Christina Rossettie once wrote, "Who has seen the wind? Neither I nor you: But when the leaves hang trembling, The wind is passing through. Who has seen the wind? Neither I nor you: But when the trees bow down their heads, The wind is passing by."
Morning broke all misty and moist, with a balmy breeze. My sister Felicia said it looked like Washington state. But what images can't capture is the feel and sound of the wind, that invisible force that so affects our experience of the weather. Wind is a perpetually mysterious and elusive phenomenon. These last few days have been intoxicating at the lake thanks to the movement of air over the water. It obliges one to simply stop and soak in the wonder of the feeling of warm breezes ruffling the surface of the water, hair, wind chimes, and skin. As Christina Rossettie once wrote, "Who has seen the wind? Neither I nor you: But when the leaves hang trembling, The wind is passing through. Who has seen the wind? Neither I nor you: But when the trees bow down their heads, The wind is passing by."

Liturgical: Thursday of the 16th Week in Ordinary Time

The reason I speak to them in parables is that ‘seeing they do not perceive, and hearing they do not listen, nor do they understand.’ With them indeed is fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah that says:


‘You will indeed listen, but never understand, and you will indeed look, but never perceive.

For this people’s heart has grown dull, and their ears are hard of hearing, and they have shut their eyes; so that they might not look with their eyes, and listen with their ears, and understand with their heart and turn—and I would heal them.’


But blessed are your eyes, for they see, and your ears, for they hear. Truly I tell you, many prophets and righteous people longed to see what you see, but did not see it, and to hear what you hear, but did not hear it.

Matthew 13:10-17


From Bishop Barron's Gospel reflections today: But why is the biblical God so elusive? Because he brought the whole of the finite universe into existence. God must be other in a way that transcends any and all modes of otherness discoverable within creation.


Sanctoral: Charbel Makhlouf (May 8, 1828 – December 24, 1898)

Lebanon's surprising miracle worker, relatively unknown during his lifetime, globally famous after hisentrance into Heaven.

Read about St. Charbel's miraculous tomb here.

More info here.


Human: Hulda Crooks climbed Mt Fuji at age 91 – 1987; 9-yr.-old Emma Houlston became youngest person to pilot plane across Canada (Victoria, B.C., to St. John’s, N.L.) – 1988


Natural: What IS a Hummingbird Moth? 8 Fascinating Facts. These things actually exist!


Also: Sweet ’n’ Sunny Cauliflower Salad


Italian: Mammone (mama’s boy)


Quote: "A man who prays lives out the mystery of existence, and a man who does not pray scarcely exists."


Love is a Radiant Light: The Life & Words of Saint Charbel (2019)

 
 
 

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