ROME 23/04 – Day 03: Holy Monday

The City saw a 6:48 sunrise and will have its sunset at 19:40.   The Ave Maria bell is to ring at 20:00.  The full moon is coming: 6 April: important for the dating of Easter, of course.  It is the Feast of Sixtus I and of St. Richard of Chichester.   The later always makes me think of the limerick my old pastor had in his back pocket for this day.   Posted earlier.

I had mentioned yesterday my gratitude to my Roman Donors.   I said Mass for your intention as soon as I arrived on Saturday.   And with my mention of donations a few more came in which I am please to acknowledge here.

Thanks…

EL, MP, PJMcD, HB, AFC, DMcN, KS, TO’R (wow)

I hope I didn’t miss anyone.  Donations come in via different services and it gets complicated.  Also, sometimes there are no email addresses, so it is hard to write thank you notes.

I’d like also to thank some of the past “200” and “100” campaigners who have persevered.   Sometime ago, I had campaigns to add monthly subscribers.   Each time I was blessed with a good response.  Of course there are those who silently drop away for one reason or another which is understandable.   I have lists of donors past and present and you are remembered in my prayers, in particular when I am informed that someone has passed away.  They are remembered in prayer.

Palm Sunday was wonderful at my adoptive parish of Ss. Trinità dei Pellegrini.  The place was packed as you can imagine.  All the images in the Church are covered and not haphazardly: many have individually made to cover the image just to the edge of the frame.  Striking.  Since there are a lot of large images, there is a lot of purple.  The altar, however, was dressed in Roman purple, which has a reddish cast.

You can see the deacon has his broad stole.

Lunch lunch with The Great Roman™ and the Great Roman Wife™ – a real treat since she can’t always join in – along with my Chicagoans.

Rigatoni alla carbonara.

And puntarelle.  What a pleasure.  They were perfect.

I ran into a few blog readers after Mass.  It is great to meet people whose names I’ve seen the combox and in donations over the years.  That’s one of perks.

Meanwhile,…

White to move in this unbalanced situation.

NB: I’ll hold comments with solutions ’till the next day so there won’t be “spoilers” for others.

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