Calendar Class of June 29, 2025

A Carpe Diem Snapshot:

This photo has nothing to do with today's feast day, except that my Mom is wearing a liturgically correct color! I just didn't want to miss the opportunity to post it now that the Kirk Center conference is wrapping up with a visit to Piety Hill. It goes without saying that none of us would be here without this lady in red. Thanks, Mom.

Liturgical: Solemnity of Saints Peter and Paul, Apostles

Pope Leo XIV's Mass and Angelus today.

Bishop Barron's Sunday Sermon: The Church is Built on the Rock

(He discusses Roman monuments and history!)

Fr. Plant's Homily-Scripture Lesson: Simon the Rock, Paul the Apostle to the Gentiles

Sanctoral: Sts Peter and Paul, Patrons of Rome-- How Rome celebrates!

Human: The temple of the god Quirinus was erected in Rome. At this building, architect and engineer Vitruvius set up the first public clock in Rome. In his book, De Architectura, he mentions that in Rome portable solar clocks are in use – in other words, the first pocket watches. The sun clocks were the main chronometers until the Renaissance.

Natural: How did Roman sundials function? And, a brief history of timekeeping.

Italian: Festa di Santi Pietro e Paolo, Patroni di Roma= Feast of Sts. Peter and Paul, Patrons of Rome

Quote: “The history of Peter and Paul shows us that the communion to which the Lord calls us is a unison of voices and personalities that does not eliminate anyone’s freedom. Our patron saints followed different paths, had different ideas and at times argued with one another with evangelical frankness. Yet this did not prevent them from living the concordia apostolorum, that is, a living communion in the Spirit, a fruitful harmony in diversity.”

--Pope Leo XIV, June 29, 2025