Calendar Class of June 21, 2025

A Carpe Diem Snapshot:

Back on the board! Tony knew just how to make me feel more at home on the sea by getting me a paddle board. This one is a lot bigger than the board I use on the lake, but also much lighter. This morning I took it out for a first "run" and it went pretty well... until I tried to stand up when the big waves came in. Guess I should have watched this video first! Paddleboarding on the sea with waves is a whole new challenge compared to the placid waters of Michigan's small lakes but it also offers new opportunities- such as surfing with a paddleboard! Stay tuned...

Liturgical: Saturday of the 11th Week of Ordinary Time

“So do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will bring worries of its own. Today’s trouble is enough for today."

Matthew 6:24-34

Sanctoral: The Church celebrates Memorial of St. Aloysius Gonzaga (1568-1591) today. His outstanding quality was his radiant purity and the Church praises this perfect innocence with the words, "Thou has made him little less than the angels." He was baptized in the womb, because his life was in danger, and he made a vow of chastity at the age of nine. When he was sixteen he joined the Society of Jesus and died at the age of twenty-three in 1591 in Rome as a result of his devoted nursing of the plague-stricken.

His relics are in the Jesuit church of Sant'Ignazio in Rome.

Human: 1788 US Constitution comes into effect when New Hampshire is the 9th state to ratify it

SpaceShipOne left the Earth behind and made its indelible entry in the history books as the first private spacecraft to carry humans into space – 2004

A 25-foot-tall, 17.5-ton treat of frozen Snapple juice melted, flooding Union Square in downtown Manhattan with kiwi-strawberry-flavored fluid – 2005

Tallest structure built with LEGOS (114 feet 11 inches) set Guinness World Record, Milan, Italy – 2015

Natural: 10 Life-Changing Health Benefits of Stand Up Paddleboarding

Italian: 35 Italian Words That Change Meaning Based on Gender

Quote: The following text is a transcription of the Constitution as it was inscribed by Jacob Shallus on parchment (the document on display in the Rotunda at the National Archives Museum.) The spelling and punctuation reflect the original.

"We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."

Preamble to the Constitution of the United States