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Solar eclipse on October 3, 2005 from Oria, Italy Credit: Giuseppe Donatiello from Oria (Brindisi), Italy. An annular solar eclipse occurred on October 3, 2005. It was visible in a narrow strip through the Iberian peninsula and Africa. A partial eclipse was instead visible from a larger region of the Earth... This file is made available under the Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication.
By Tim Clark , EWTN News, April 10, 2024
Tim Clark Tim Clark received his bachelor’s in philosophy from Christendom College, and his master’s in Computer Science from George Mason University. He lives with his wife Yvonne and their eight children in Virginia. You can find his blog, “Between The Paws” at BetweenThePa.ws.
God simply never tires of ways of delighting us.
Awesome is an overused word. On Monday, I was lucky enough to experience a total solar eclipse.
It was … awesome.
Although I think I could easily give a dozen reasons why I found it so moving, I will offer just two.
First, consider that a total solar eclipse is almost universally acknowledged to be one of the most incredibly beautiful sights in all of nature. But we must stop for a moment to consider the fact that, for this beauty to even be possible, the sun and the moon need to be precisely the same relative size in the sky. We might simply take for granted that a planet’s sun and moon are precisely proportionate to each other. However, there is no scientific explanation or necessity why this should be the case. Indeed, astronomers haven’t observed any examples of this type of perfect moon/sun relationship elsewhere in the observable universe. The official explanation is: there is no explanation; it’s just a very, very, lucky coincidence. …
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