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- on 13 May – Our Lady of Fatima: Three points, one that worries, one that consoles, one that puzzles: “All I will say is that I have been exceedingly confused (and a bit worried) about why the Third Secret…”
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- on WDTPRS – Sunday and Ascension (Novus Ordo): Christ is not insensible to our sufferings.: “Here in the UK the Ascension has been returned to Thursday-Deo Gratias. And mother’s day is always Laetare Sunday, also…”
- on 10 May: St. Job: “The thing is, as I read Job, one of the things it teaches is specifically: “Do complain. Don’t despair; but…”
- on Your Sunday Sermon Notes: Sunday after Ascension (N.O. 7th of Easter OR Ascension) 2024: “During today’s Novus Ordo Ascension Thursday Sunday Mass (why, oh why, Archdiocese of mine?), our pastor offered a perspective on…”
- on An innovative reform in the Novus Ordo: Vigil of Ascension (2002MR): “So, I’d support moving the observation back to Thursday, but if you intend to make it a Holy Day of…”
- on Your Sunday Sermon Notes: Sunday after Ascension (N.O. 7th of Easter OR Ascension) 2024: “I was up in Baltimore for Mother’s Day. Due to a communication error with my brother, I took the train…”
- on WDTPRS – Sunday and Ascension (Novus Ordo): Christ is not insensible to our sufferings.: “Father Z, Your writing on the Ascension by various authors was so motivating and spiritually moving, I decided to go…”
- on WDTPRS – Sunday and Ascension (Novus Ordo): Christ is not insensible to our sufferings.: ““Ascension Thursday Sunday” –made me chuckle much like “girl altar boys” Somehow those phrases provide much more clarity than the…”
- on Daily Rome Shot 1018: “FWIW, Father, Miss Swift’s lyric, “You know how to ball, I know Aristotle,” has been widely interpreted as a humorous…”
- on 10 May: St. Job: ““We could talk about Job all day and into next week or next year.” Very Gregorian of you, Father.”
- on Daily Rome Shot 1018: ““I know Aristotle” is part of a line in Swift’s recent song “So High School,” according to my Bing search.…”
- on 10 May: St. Job: “I read the book of Job was I was a young man. I thank God for leading me to it.…”
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That’s behind the Pantheon. Egyptian obelisk + Bernini elephant = Rome’s wonderful weirdness.
Sodalis quidam fratrum Dominicanorum e proximo coenobio, antequam rei initia ponerentur, Berninium carpsit, dictitans elephantem, grave pondus obelisci ferre non posse, atque novam rationem totius operis faciendi proposuit. Verumtamen Pontifex Maximus renuit.
Ioannes Laurentius non sine aliquo aculeo, non sine aliqua ulciscendi voluntate, collocationem elephantis ita mutavit ut eius tergum contemptim verteretur in coenobium illud, atque proboscis retorqueretur eodem.
Huius rei causa Ludovicus Sergardi (1660-1726) vir Italus litteratus sed maledicus et mordax, (praeter alia, satiras Latinas conscripsit) hos versus confecit: “Vertit terga elephas versaque proboscide clamat: Kiriaki (*) Fratres hic ego vos habeo.” (Carolus Egger: Roma Aeterna, pg. 102)
* Kiriaki – facete Dominicani ex Kypiakoi)
In the Piazza della Minerva, in front of Santa Maria sopra Minerva, one of my favorite churches in Rome, where the body of St. Catherine of Siena lies (except for her head and a finger, which are in Siena) as well as a sculpture of the risen Christ attributed o Michelangelo. Last time I was in Rome on Pentecost I went to Mass there because I couldn’t get into the Pantheon.
Cardinal Murphy O’Connor’s titular church was S Maria sopra Minerva. As he was appointed to Westminster in the Jubilee Year, I had wanted to to put a copy of the little elephant and his obelisk in the piazza in front of Westminster Cathedral. It would have been a quirky and charming legacy. One should always concentrate on the really important things!!! *
But no one was interested.
(* that’s irony for those peoples who don’t do it)
Good to see that the repair to the elephant’s tusk is looking good enough that it’s scarcely noticeable, at least in this photo. Some of you may recall back in 2016 it was damaged by vandals… https://news.artnet.com/art-world/rome-elephant-obelisk-sculpture-damage-vandals-749831