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ROME 26/4– Day 32: What a day
In Rome the sun rose at 06:14. It set quite a while ago at 20:03. The Ave Maria Bells is still listed in the 20:15 cycle. Welcome Regstrant: CRM Among others, today was the Feast of Sts. Maria Cleope and … Read More
ROME 26/4– Day 31: tired
Over Rome at 06:16 the sun emerged and it will remerge (?) submerge at 20:02. The Ave Maria Bell ought to ring for the Curia at 20:15 (but it won’t). It’s the feast of St. George and St. Adalbert. I’m … Read More
ROME 26/4– Days 30: R.I.P.
Up came the sun at 06:17. Down goeth the sun at 20:01. The Ave Maria is in the 20:15 cycle for the Curia. It is the feast of three saintly Popes of yore: Soter, Caius and Agapitus. Perhaps more important … Read More
“Masses scheduled at impossible times”… Where have I heard that before?
Today in the Italian daily Il Foglio there is an article which starts… Catholics increasingly persecuted after the Agreement with China Human Rights Watch report: the situation has worsened after the agreement between Beijing and the Holy See. An assessment … Read More
ROME 26/4– Days 29: Happy Birthday Rome!
Today it was 06:19 when Pyrois, Eous, Aethon, and Phlegon bore the chariot of Helios into the view of Rome. At 19:59 the same “Fiery One”, “He of the Dawn”, “Blazing” and “Burning” will take dimming cart into West. The … Read More
Of Tolkien and a very young Fr. Z
J.R.R. Tolkien’s books provided inestimable foundations for my later acceptance of all that the Catholic Church taught and that in conjunction with its most powerful conveyer of doctrine, sacred liturgical worship. In fact, at the behest of a wise grandmother, … Read More
ROME 26/4– Days 27 & 28: Pope SAINT Leo IX lead an army
This beautiful sunny yet cool Roman day started by the sun’s rising at 06:20 and it will end at 19:59. The Ave Maria (which you know all about now) is at 20:15 according to the Vatican curial calendar. On this … Read More
Feast of St. Expeditus… belated
Yesterday, 19 April, was the Feast of St. Expeditus – patron saint of procrastinators. I put off posting about him till now. He was a Roman soldier and is so depicted, also holding aloft a sign or cross with the … Read More
ASK FATHER: Was the feeding of the 5000 just a moment of “sharing” or was it a true miracle?
From a reader… QUAERITUR: I hope you can explain something for me. I saw something about the Pope in Africa saying that Jesus’ miraculous feeding of the crowds was really just a moment of sharing, people stopped being selfish and … Read More
Your Sunday Sermon Notes – 2nd Sunday after Easter (N.O. 3rd Sunday OF Easter)
Too many people today are without good, strong preaching, to the detriment of all. Share the good stuff. Was there a GOOD point made in the sermon you heard at your Mass of obligation for this 2nd Sunday after Easter … Read More
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