ROME 23/05 – Day 07: Blasts from the past in the present are the future?

On this lovely Roman Sunday the sun arose at 05:57 and it will set at 20:17.  The Ave Maria is locked in at 20:30 right now.   Eventually, this will shift in another 15 minute increment as the days get longer.

It is the anniversary of the translation of the relics of St. Stephen, Protodeacon, to Rome from Constantinople.  They were placed with those of the greatly venerated St. Lawrence at the Verano cemetery and Basilica.

I should get out to St. Lawrence and the Campo Verano this week on a nice day, also the visit the grave of my friend Fr. Luigi Parrone.  The anniversary of his death is coming up: 13 May 2001.   I remember when you readers “Did it for Luigi!” and donated so that the parish here, Ss. Trinità dei Pellegrini, could have their baptismal font.  How very proud I was of you and how happy the people here were.  

Meanwhile, morons are active in Rome. The other day a group of these nitwits blocked traffic by taking off all their cloths and sitting down in the street. Not pretty is a far too generous a description.

Here are more morons. Notice that the people watching are not very happy. They are hurting their cause.

“Our future is as black as this water”. Climate activists pour black liquid into the waters of Bernini’s Fountain of the Four Rivers in Piazza Navona, amid a sea of insults from onlookers, before being dragged out by Rome police.pic.twitter.com/YIDuSuhDR1

— Wanted in Rome (@wantedinrome) May 6, 2023

And I cannot say with the word I would like what I would have done to the moron who did this. This is an ancient pomerium stone from the time of the EMPEROR CLAUDIUS!

From the English College, festivities for the coronation on the previous evening.

Their chapel.

From the swearing in of the Swiss Guard on 6 May.

Just because it was beautiful on the walk home.  Thanks, Rome, for having beautiful things to see on the walk home.

The door of the English College in Festive Mode.

A couple of videos from the Swearing.

All of these sights and sounds speak to us, handed as they are to us from the past.

What of our future?

We need the Traditional Latin Mass now, more than ever.  We are going to have it, too.  There is nothing they can do to stop it.

These lovely little tomatoes, very firm, extremely flavorful, are a little larger than golf balls.

With fresh pizza bianca from the forno and oozy mozzarella di bufala.

And the crowning shot… look at how this cheese leaks milk as you cut into it.

This is mozzarella.

We still have space for a puzzle.

Black to move and win.

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

A shout out to Roman donors.

Holy Mass this Sunday afternoon is for you.

Thank you and please pray for me.