ROME 23/04 – Day 26: The joy of concelebration

Here in the Eternal City the sunrise was at 0612 in a cloudless sky.  Who knows what the sky shall be when the sun sets at 2005.   The sky will probably be the same at the Ave Maria, still in its 2015 time slot.

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It is the Feast of St. Cletus, Pope and Martyr (+ c. 88).  It is also the Feast of Our Lady of Good Counsel, after a miraculous image at Genazzano south of Rome.

This morning a couple of the concelebrating priests chose the Mass for Our Lady of Good Counsel, which texts are in the “Aliquibus Locis” section toward the back of the Missal.  Here is a nice view of 6 concelebrating priests done with a pano setting.

Click for larger.  I was facing the church’s central doors.  The one altar without an altar piece… that’s in honor of St. Philip.  The painting is being restored.  Other wise the altars are from left to right St. Giovanni Battista De Rossi, St. Philip Neri, Crucifix and Sorrowful Mother, St. Carlo Borromeo, St. Augustine, St. Gregory the Great.  Two other side altars are not visible: St. Matthew and the Blessed Virgin.  The white canopy covers the baptismal font which YOU READERS helped to purchase and install when the church became a parish church!

Here’s a facchino schlepping fruits and vegetables to the stands in the Campo.

Outside church today the rondini were really at it!  Maybe a little hard to see them.  If in my native place my favorites are the chickadees, here in Rome the prize goes to the rondini.

The video is a little kitschy but… meh… the text is there. And for the Italian challenged my rendering:

I would like to enter the wires of a radio
And to fly over the rooftops of cities
To run into dialectal expressions
To blend myself into the smell of a coffee
To stop on the noses of old men while they read newspapers
And with the powder of dreams to fly and fly
To the coolness of the stars…and farther still

Chorus:
Dream, dream in the sea of dreams

I would like to whirl around in the sky like the swallows
And every so often stop here and there
To have a nest under the roofs in the coolness of porticos
And like them, in the evening to close my eyes with simplicity

I want to follow every beat of my heart
To understand what’s going on inside and what moves it
Where this strange sorrow comes from once in a while
I want, in short, to understand what love is
Where it is that it takes you, where it is that it gives you

Chorus:
Dream, dream, in the sky of dreams

My freesia are as happy as rondini this morning.

Meanwhile, today the FIDE World Championship continues in Astana, Kazakhstan to decide who will be called “World Champion” (since Magnus Carlsen abdicated). Game 11 today. Ian Nepomniachtchi will clash with Ding Liren who is down a point and really needs a win. Coverage HERE

White to move. Can you weave the net?

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

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May I make a recommendation? This morning after Mass I had a quick coffee and cornetto with Eduard Habsburg who has a new book.  Eduard is Hungary’s Ambassador to the Holy See.  The forward is by Viktor Orbán.

The Habsburg Way 7 Rules for Turbulent Times

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