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Calendar Class of March 23, 2025

  • Writer: Andrea Kirk Assaf
    Andrea Kirk Assaf
  • Mar 23
  • 3 min read

A Carpe Diem Snapshot:

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We made a sweet, fuzzy long-eared friend today at our human friend Roberto's agriturismo farm in Parco di Veio, on the outskirts of Rome. Along the property runs a section of the via Francigena, one of Europe's main pilgrimage routes, this one leading to Rome.


If you are planning to walk this route for the Jubilee and are looking for an agriturismo near Rome, you could get in touch with Roberto (and tell him Tony and Andrea sent you).


For the Third Sunday of Lent there is an option to read Luke 13:1-9 for the Cycle C instead of the Samaritan Woman at the Well.


"Sir," the man replied "leave it one more year and give me time to dig round it and manure it: it may bear fruit next year; if not, then you can cut it down." (Lk. 13:9) "In the Christian life, faith has consequences, that to 'serve God' we must renounce 'Mammon,' that to be free for God we must break the hold that the world has on us. Faith demands a reconstruction of the inner life, a reforming that can be brought about only by overcoming. —The Conversion of Augustine, Romano Guardini


Bishop Barron's Sunday Sermon: You Can't Grasp-- Or Hide From-- God

Fr. Plant's Homily: Give Me Time To Dig Round It



  • Try to observe this Sunday in Lent with your family — make it relaxing as befits the Lord's Day. Remember that the Sundays of Lent are not counted in the total forty days of this holy season, so you are not expected to continue your penances and fasting on this day. Reread the Gospel together and discuss it as a family, play games, cook a nice meal. We especially recommend the Late Spring Special Menu, with chicken stew and dumplings as the main dish, or the Spring, Fall, or Winter Sunday Dinner Menu, with the "best-ever meat loaf".

  • Read this document by our Holy Father, On Keeping the Lord's Day Holy.

  • Begin to pray the Prayer for the Third Week of Lent with your family.


The Lord indeed writes straight with crooked lines. Against his will, and from the unlikely springboard of an Inquisition tribunal, this man became the Christlike shepherd of a poor and oppressed people. God gave him the gift of loving others as they needed it.


Human: The Hilaria festival was celebrated on the occasion of the vernal equinox and the worship of the Phrygian goddess of fertility, harvest, spring and defensive cities. March 25 was an extremely positive day, full of joyful celebrations of Attis’ resurrection – Cybele’s lover. The cult of Cybele and Attis spread in ancient Rome during the reign of Claudius. On this day, people rejoiced at the nascent nature, there were masquerades, games, and everyone was cheerful. In addition, on that day, the Romans were also supposed to make fun of friends and family.


421 AD – according to the legend, Venice was founded at noon. On this day, the first foundations for the church of San Giacomo di Rialto were laid.


Natural: The World Meteorological Organization established by the UN – 1950


Italian: Essere agli sgoccioli (to be almost over)


Quote: The meaning of the Sabbath is to celebrate time rather than space. Six days a week we live under the tyranny of things of space; on the Sabbath we try to become attuned to holiness in time. It is a day on which we are called upon to share in what is eternal in time, to turn from the results of creation to the mystery of creation; from the world of creation to the creation of the world.


 
 
 

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