Calendar Class of June 15, 2025

A Carpe Diem Snapshot:

The early bird catches the worm, and the early riser catches some peace and quiet... and fish. The difference between pre-dawn, dawn, and daylight hours is even more apparent at the beach, as all of nature is transformed minute by minute with the approach of the sun, as are the corresponding human and sea creatures' activities. I was fortunate enough to naturally wake up at dawn today and catch some of this magic before the beach combers arrived. Only the fishermen and the hermit crabs were awake and busy with their solitary work.

Liturgical: Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity

The fundamental dogma, on which everything in Christianity is based, is that of the Blessed Trinity in whose name all Christians are baptized. The Solemnity of the Blessed Trinity needs to be understood and celebrated as a prolongation of the mysteries of Christ and as the solemn expression of our faith in this triune life of the Divine Persons, to which we have been given access by Baptism and by the Redemption won for us by Christ. Only in heaven shall we properly understand what it means, in union with Christ, to share as sons in the very life of God.

Pope Leo's Sunday Mass and Angelus today.

Bishop Barron's Sunday Sermon: The Theology of the Trinity

Fr. Plant's Homily: By Faith We Are Judged Righteous. (I don't just recommend this one, I consider it essential to better understand our Trinitarian faith.)

Sanctoral: St. Germain Cousin, France +1601

Human: Father’s Day 2025

Father’s Day is celebrated annually on the third Sunday in June in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, India, and a number of other countries around the world. Many countries celebrate this holiday at other times of the year. In Australia, for example, Father’s Day is held on the first Sunday of September; in Norway, Sweden, and Finland, on the second Sunday in November; and in some Catholic countries, on March 19 (St. Joseph’s Day).

The first known Father’s Day service occurred in Fairmont, West Virginia, on July 5, 1908, after the worst mining accident in U.S. history.

This horrific accident killed more than 360 men and boys and left about 1,000 children fatherless. Mrs. Grace Golden Clayton wanted to honor the many fathers who had died with a Sunday service in Fairmont.

Mrs. Clayton was the daughter of a dedicated reverend who had died in 1896, so she knew what it was like to lose a father.

Natural: Anything can be edible’: how Italians are making a meal of invasive crabs

Italian: Essere in alto mare (to have a long way to go / in difficulty)

Quote: A boy and his dad on a fishing-trip— Builders of life’s companionship!

Oh, I envy them, as I see them there

Under the sky in the open air,

For out of the old, old long-ago

Come the summer days that I used to know,

When I learned life’s truths from my father’s lips

As I shared the joy of his fishing-trips.

–Edgar Guest (1881–1959)