Age Quod Agis

So, the very first blog post.  I'll tell the story of Age Quod Agis and why I'm making this blog.

The purpose of this blog is to record my thoughts leading up to my D-Term Rome trip and what I experience while I'm there.  I got the idea for this by shamelessly copying two of friends who are doing the same thing.

Mary and Laura over at Canterbury Postcard are doing the same thing during Fall Term when they study abroad at Canterbury.  At least I managed to come up with an original name for the blog.

Now for Age Quod Agis:

It all starts back last school year when I was browsing the Catholic/Religion section of my local library.  I saw this book called Journal of a Soul by Pope John XXIII.  I looked at the inside cover and I decided to use this book for spiritual reading.  After all, he is Blessed John XXIII so I thought it might be good.  (Plus, I could see for myself how 'modernist' he was.  He wasn't).

Well, it was very good spiritual reading and I've been reading little bits of it every night since then.  In his spiritual diaries-for that's what the book is- this Latin phrase popped up. It was... Age Quod Agis!

The translator's footnote said that it appeared to be a misquotation of Plautus (whoever that is) and it may be translated as 'Pay attention to what you are doing.'  For some ineffable reason I was struck by that phrase and it kept bouncing around in my head.

When I was creating this blog, I was racking by brain for a good name.  Then I thought, 'hey!  Let's make it a Latin phrase!'  I immediately thought of Age Quod Agis and the rest is obvious.