Calendar Class of March 25, 2025
- Andrea Kirk Assaf
- Mar 25
- 2 min read
A Carpe Diem Snapshot:
Happy Feast of the Annunciation, when the world was made new through Mary's Fiat. Today we took a class pilgrimage to Santa Maria Maggiore, the most important Marian church in Rome, followed by the ancient church of Santa Prassede, followed by the shrine of Our Lady of Perpetual Help.
Liturgical: "Again Lent's austerity is interrupted as we solemnly keep a feast in honor of the Annunciation. The Solemnity of the Annunciation of the Lord is a mystery that belongs to the temporal rather than to the sanctoral cycle in the Church's calendar. For the feast commemorates the most sublime moment in the history of time, the moment when the Second Divine Person of the most Holy Trinity assumed human nature in the womb of the Virgin Mary. Thus it is a feast of our Lord, even as it is of Mary, although the liturgy centers wholly around the Mother of God." —The Church's Year of Grace, Pius Parsch
"Mary said, 'Behold, I am the handmaid of the Lord. May it be done to me according to your word.'” Luke 1:26-38
Today's Mass readings and Bishop Barron's Gospel reflections.
Sanctoral: The Roman Martyrology marks the commemorations of St. Dismas, the Good Thief and St. Margaret Clitherow (1556-1586), wife and mother, who was one of the English martyrs. St. Margaret's feast is celebrated in England with the English Martyrs on May 4.
Human: 31 AD The first Easter, according to calendar-maker Dionysius Exiguus.
Why March 25, the Annunciation, Was Once New Year’s Day
In very ancient Rome, March was the first month of the calendar
Natural: Swedish waffles for "Lady's Day"
On the day we contemplate how "the word became flesh," let's also contemplate the life-long DNA connection between mother and child: fetal microchimerism.
Italian: Trasandato (shabby / sloppy)
Quote: “The scene of the Annunciation merits consideration for another reason, too: it is not only wholly Christological; it is wholly trinitarian as well…The angel’s initial salutation…brings her the greeting of the ‘Lord’, Yahweh, the Father…she will give birth to the ‘Son of the Most High’…the Holy Spirit will overshadow her…” – Hans Urs Von Balthasar
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