Calendar Class of March 8, 2025
- Andrea Kirk Assaf
- Mar 8
- 2 min read
A Carpe Diem Snapshot:
Hildegard von Bingen was honored on International Women's Day in Rome today, at the Basilica of Santa Cecilia in Trastevere. A choral group performed several of her hauntingly beautiful compositions in her Symphonia armonie celestium revelationum (Symphony of the Harmony of Celestial Revelations).
Liturgical: Saturday after Ash Wednesday
"Those who are healthy do not need a physician, but the sick do.
I have not come to call the righteous to repentance but sinners."
Bishop Barron's Gospel reflections today.
Sanctoral: Today is the Optional Memorial of St. John of God (1495-1550). John was of Portuguese descent, was first a shepherd, a book dealer and then a soldier. At the age of forty he was converted, and devoted himself to the care of those sick in mind, showing himself in this thankless task to be a true innovator and a saint of super-human heroism. He founded the Order of the Brothers Hospitallers, which bears his name. He died at Granada in 1550. Pope Leo XIII declared him Patron of Hospitals and Patron of the Sick and commanded his name to be placed in the Litanies of the Dying. "God is love! Whoever abides in love; abides in God and God in him" (motto of St. John's community).
Human: It's International Women's Day! In Italy, that means every single woman is presented with a bouquet (or at least a sprig) of the bright yellow mimosa flower. In Rome this year, it also means a Jubilee pilgrimage around the city to learn about the Women Doctors of the Church!
Natural: Why is the Mimosa Flower the Symbol of Italian Women’s Day?
Italian: 8 Ways to Say “Thank Goodness” in Italian
Quote: “The world doesn’t need what women have, it needs what women are.”
St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross (Edith Stein)
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