Calendar Class of March 7, 2025

A Carpe Diem Snapshot:

Life imitating art. Veronica of the Veil was the confirmation name Cordelia chose for herself last year (since they're Maronite rite they receive the sacraments of baptism and confirmation as babies, so I let them choose a confirmation name when they're ready). When I discovered the Feast of the Holy Face on Tuesday, I also learned that Veronica is the defacto patroness of this devotion because of how she wiped the face of Jesus, and because her name literally means "true image," which is what we become through gazing upon the face of Christ. Valentina created this card for Cordelia Ann-Marie Veronica Assaf today.

Liturgical: Thursday after Ash Wednesday readings and Bishop Barron's reflections

Then he said to them all, “If any want to become my followers, let them deny themselves and take up their cross daily and follow me. For those who want to save their life will lose it, and those who lose their life for my sake will save it. What does it profit them if they gain the whole world, but lose or forfeit themselves?

Luke 9:22-25

Sanctoral: The Roman Martyrology commemorates St. Colette (1381-1447), who revived the Franciscan spirit among the Poor Clares. Her reform spread throughout France, Savoy, Germany, and Flanders, many convents being restored and seventeen new ones founded by her. She helped St. Vincent Ferrer in the work of healing the papal schism.

Human: Birthday of Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (painter & sculptor) – 1475, and Elizabeth Barrett Browning (poet) – 1806

Death of Louisa May Alcott (author) – 1888

Natural: Death of Hans Bethe (nuclear physicist whose calculations explained how stars shine and laid the foundation for development of both the atomic and hydrogen bombs) – 2005

Italian: Spicciolo (loose change)

Quote: “All of us, with unveiled faces, seeing the glory of the Lord as though reflected in a mirror, are being transformed into the same image.”

2 Corinthians 3:18