Calendar Class of March 10, 2025

A Carpe Diem Snapshot:

I think we've got a mascot! And one very loved puppy. Last night we watched "Beethoven" for the first time, and it made us happier with our choice of a St. Bernard (apart from the slobber, of course!).

Liturgical: Monday of the 1st week of Lent

"‘Truly I tell you, just as you did not do it to one of the least of these, you did not do it to me.’ And these will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”

Matthew 25:31-46

Sanctoral: Saint Dominic Savio, Italy +1857 Patron of Altar Servers

Catholics in Scotland celebrate the feast of St. John Ogilvie (1579-1615), who was educated as a Calvinist and was received into the Church at Louvain by Father Cornelius a Lapide. After becoming a Jesuit at the age of seventeen, he was ordained to the priesthood in 1613, and at his own request was sent on a perilous Scottish mission. He was eventually betrayed, but during a long imprisonment, no tortures could force him to name any fellow Catholics. Though his courage was admired by the judges he was condemned as a traitor and hanged at Glasgow. The customary beheading and quartering were omitted owing to undisguised popular sympathy, and his body was hurriedly buried in the churchyard of Glasgow Cathedral.

The Roman Martyrology commemorates St. Marie-Eugenie de Jesus (1817-1898). She was a religious sister who founded the Congregation of the Religious of the Assumption in 1839. On June 3, 2007, she was canonized in Vatican City by Pope Benedict XVI.

The Church also commemorates St. Simplicius, Pope (papal ascension, 468; d. 483). He was pope during the fall of the western Roman Empire to the barbarians.

March 10 is nine days before the Solemnity of St. Joseph, and the day to begin a nine-day novena to St. Joseph for his feast day.

Human: U.S. national paper currency first issued – 1862

Natural: Thomas Jefferson presented a paper on the megalonyx (which was later determined to be an extinct giant ground sloth) – 1797; healthy Morning Glory Muffins recipe (substitute the vegetable oil for coconut); The Vatican declared its opposition to test tube fertilization, embryo transfer, and most other forms of scientific interference in procreation – 1987

Italian: Intrippare (to stuff oneself / to obsess)

Quote: Instead of words, I'm opting for music today. Here is Rachmaninoff Prelude in g minor op. 23 #5, performed by Valentina Lisitsa.