Calendar Class of July 26, 2025

A Carpe Diem Snapshot:

Carpe myrtillus! Yesterday we had an impromptu belated blueberry pie birthday bash for the first of the four, Monica! This summer Monica is busy gardening (Cordelia has become her enthusiastic garden gnome) and organizing the musical performances at Mecosta's upcoming first annual Artisan and Makers Fair. If you are in the state of Michigan on August 30, Mecosta is really the only place you need to be!

Liturgical: Saturday of the 16th Week of Ordinary Time

But he replied, ‘No; for in gathering the weeds you would uproot the wheat along with them. Let both of them grow together until the harvest; and at harvest time I will tell the reapers, Collect the weeds first and bind them in bundles to be burned, but gather the wheat into my barn.’

Matthew 13:24-30

Sanctoral: Today is the Memorial of Saints Joachim and Anne, the parents of the Blessed Virgin Mary, also the grandparents of Jesus. It was in the home of Saints Joachim and Anne where the Virgin Mary received her training to be the Mother of God. Thus, devotion to Anne and Joachim is an extension of the affection Christians have always professed toward our Blessed Mother. We, too, owe a debt of gratitude to our parents for their help in our Christian formation. The Church invokes this saintly couple as the patron of grandparents.

(Buon onomastico, Annette Kirk!)

The Roman Martyrology commemorates St. Titus Brandsma (1881-1942). He was a Dutch Carmelite priest and professor who repeatedly criticized the growing threat of the Nazi regime in Europe. Like the more famous Maximilian Kolbe, Brandsma paid for this stance with his life, the latter being injected with carbolic acid in the death camp at Dachau.

Human: National Day of the Cowboy

Celebrated on the fourth Saturday in July, this is a day to explore cowboy culture and heritage and to acknowledge the contributions of cowboys and cowgirls across the United States.

A federal grand jury indicted Robert T. Morris, Jr. for releasing a computer worm, making him the first person to be prosecuted under the 1986 Computer Fraud and Abuse Act – 1989

Natural: First Moon rock samples analyzed, Lunar Receiving Laboratory, Houston, Texas – 1969. Video: the stories Moon rocks tell

Also: Vegetable Container Size Chart & Pot Size Calculator

Italian: 20 Unique Italian Names for Children

Book of the Day: Blueberries for Sal by Robert McCloskey

Recipe of the Day: Michigan Blueberry Pie- you haven't really experienced summer without it.

Quote: “Little Sal brought along her small tin pail and her mother brought her large tin pail to put berries in. ‘We will take our berries home and can them’, said her mother. ‘Then we will have food for the winter’."

--From Blueberries for Sal by Robert McCloskey