Armodoxy for Today: One Minute for Summertime

The Moon and the Saints

On this day in 1969 Apollo 11 landed on the moon and Neil Armstrong took his memorable small step for a man and giant step for mankind on the surface of our closest celestial neighbor.

The moon has inspired poets and romantics, mystics and philosophers since the beginning of time. Men of old imagined light beyond the night sky and moon and stars as holes in that dark blanket giving us a glimpse of the light beyond. Scientists pursuing the origins of the universe have been intrigued by the Moon.- Some say it is the same size as the Pacific Ocean – that maybe it was thrown out of Earth during the early formation of the planetary system. Characters in stories, such as Moonstruck’s Cosmo Castorini used the size of the moon as a romance meter, Whether the size of his daughter Loretta’s head, or Frank Bigalow, the moon made for a nice love gauge. Kids have looked up, and seeing the circular marks of crashed meteors imagined the Moon to be made of Swiss cheese.

The Moon, much like the saints of our Church, are located above our heads, beckoning us to look up, to wonder, to discover brightness in the darkness.

Today’s one-minute for Summertime.