Calendar Class of September 10, 2025

A Carpe Diem Snapshot:

After a little post-fair break, the artist is back on the job completing commissions. Here she is making an ordination card for Kyle, with a Sacred Heart of Jesus painting for Sandy next in line. Buon lavoro, Valentina, and thank you for using your gifts to bless others!

Liturgical: Wednesday of the 23rd Week of Ordinary Time

Colossians 3:1–11

So if you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God.Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth,for you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.When Christ who is your life is revealed, then you also will be revealed with him in glory.

Sanctoral: Thomas of Villanova (1488 – September 8, 1555)

The absent-minded professor is a stock comic figure. Saint Thomas of Villanova earned even more derisive laughs with his determined shabbiness and his willingness to let the poor who flocked to his door take advantage of him. He embarrassed his peers, but Jesus was enormously pleased with him. We are often tempted to tend our image in others’ eyes without paying sufficient attention to how we look to Christ. Thomas still urges us to rethink our priorities.

Human: 1776 George Washington asks for a spy, and Nathan Hale volunteers; 2008 The Large Hadron Collider at CERN, described as the biggest scientific experiment in the history of mankind, is powered up in Geneva, Switzerland; 2020 California's August Complex wildfire becomes the largest recorded in state history at 471,000 acres (736 square miles)

Natural: How to Press Flowers & Preserve Leaves | 3 Easy DIY Methods

Recipe of the Day: Traditional Succotash

Italian: Spiritosaggine (wisecrack)

The Italian word for a joke that is silly or tasteless, or that is supposed to come off as witty but falls flat due to its inappropriateness, is the feminine noun spiritosaggine. Often used in its plural form spiritosaggini, it derives from the adjective spiritoso which can translate as either witty or smart-alecky depending on the context.

Etc.: Ten lovely poems for Autumn

Quote: Experience is what you get when you expected something else.