To get high the sky over Rome, the Sun had to rise at 05:55. It will decline to the horizon line at 20: 19.
The Ave Maria Bell is at 20:30.
Today is, among others, the Feast of the Old Testament Prophet Isaiah.
Most, if not all, of the Old Testament prophets have a feast in the Roman calendar, listed in the Martyrology if not in the Missal. I am not sure what text, what Mass formula one would use for Isaiah. Doctor?
After Mass today, I had a chat with Our Lord and did not forget to admire the beautiful flowers that the faithful have given, roses and peonies.
I had breakfast with a couple of priests and then started a stroll to Gammarelli to get the estimates for the vestments for Ss. Trinità. I cut through a little passage to get over to this famous fountain, a gift from Alexander VII.
It is too nice not to share more fully.
At Gammarelli, we looked at my photos from the other day in the sacristy and the great Max instantly knew the fabric. We took a look at trim options. It’s the trim that really changes the range in prices. One or another could swing a single vestment a couple hundred euro! I have to talk to the parish priest again about this, whether he wouldn’t be okay with synthetic for the daily use of priests who come and go, since it would be tougher, more resistant to daily use, getting out of drawer, laying out, leaning on the altar, drawing the maniple over the edge of the altar, putting away, etc.
I should have estimate on silk-blend tonight sometime after Max gets the price on putting my coat-of-arms on the back. I’ll reach out to some of you who have written already. Soon.
On the way back to the Campo to buy myself flowers for the apartment, I saw the tiny church of San Giuliano was open, national church of the Flemish.
It is a sweet little church, neo-classical baroque in its decoration. It has a stupid altar, but that can be taken care of my a couple of men, crowbars, and a cart. The supports could go back to being altar rails (I think).
Here’s something for you.
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Your comment about the supports becoming altar rails reminds me of something that happened at a parish I sometimes attend. A former bishop of this diocese ordered the pastor to remove the altar rails. He didn’t want to do it, so he hid them in plain sight! He incorporated them into kind of chair rails on the wall in the vestibule. They were there for decades.
Well, several years ago they were restored to their rightful place. This happened around the same time that the parish started offering a regular TLM. The rails are even used during the Novus Ordo!
Another side note: this parish also has an altar for Mass versus populum. However they only put it in place for the Sunday NOs, and the gorgeous high altar is used for both the NO and TLM the rest of the week!
Father Z,
That is not a stupid altar. It’s a Cranmer Table.
I guess as long as the table is being used for the re-presentation of the Sacrifice of Christ on the Cross then it would still be considered an altar, albeit a stupid one. Altars are for sacrifices, tables are for meals.