In the early morning the sun rose at 07:30 and it will set at 18:18. The Ave Maria bell is in the 18:30 cycle. In a few days, 29 October, the “legal hour” ends and we will set our clocks back an hour. So, it will be much brighter in the early morning and get dark much earlier in the late afternoon.
Today is the Feast of St. Raphael the Archangel in the Vetus calendar. It is unfortunate that the biblically named angels were put together on just on days in the Novus calendar. We don’t, as a Church, pay enough attention these days to the Holy Angels. We spend even less time considering the activities of the fallen angels. This is ungrateful on the one hand and imprudent on the other.
Here is a lovely tondo at the parish that that was restored recently depicting the Archangel Raphael.
Raphael is the healing angel who acts in the Book of Tobit, one of the seven Archangels who stands before the Lord.
O Lord, thank you for this day. I ask today the intercession of St Raphael to bring physical healing to my kind benefactors who are in need as well as spiritual healing to my malefactors.
In church today, all the side altars were being used, though you can’t at the moment I made this see every priest. How I wish that the red vestments were being used! That would be a sight.
On the way home I stopped at little St. Bridget’s and prayed especially for a donor who has stayed with the Brigettine many times and who are very attached to the place.
The Blessed Sacrament was exposed. I spent a little time here remembering my kind donors and their requested petitions.
Meanwhile, you are white and it is your move.
Can you find mate in 3?
NB: I’ll hold comments with solutions ’till the next day so there won’t be “spoilers” for others.
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I saw a note that Anthony Esolen’s new translation of Augustine’s Confessions is now available from TAN Books. This is great.
I got the note about availability yesterday. If you get a “sold out” note, retry.
Meanwhile, more from Esolen.
No Apologies: Why Civilization Depends on the Strength of Men
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Qxp f7+, Kd8
Qf8+, any valid move
Qd6#
Wonderful photos, as always!
1. Qxf7+ Kd8
2. Qf8+ (Kc7 or Kd7)
3. Qd6#
I always love seeing Priest filling up all of the Altars saying Mass.
St. Ann De Beaupre’ Basilica in Canada. One year when my wife was pregnant , we went there and said prayers at every Altar.
1. Qf7+ Kd8 2. Qf8+ Kc7 (or Kd7 ) 3. Qd6#
1. Qxf7+ Kd8
2. Qf8+ Kc7
3. Qd6#
Or
2. … Kd7
3. Qd6#
Thanks for posting these puzzles. I haven’t played regularly in nearly fifteen years, but you’ve drawn me back in. Back then I found puzzles frustrating and wouldn’t have bothered trying a mate-in-three; age must have done something to my brain.
Now that is what I call true concelebration! Wonderful video Father. Thank you.
I literally JUST bought that book: “No Apologies” by Anthony Esolen. I forget how I came across it, but decided to order it for myself. I haven’t cracked it open yet (I have sooooo many books that I’m behind on needing to read), but it’s very interesting and was highly recommended.
The name of the author was familiar to me but I couldn’t quite place it. And then I realized that he’s the author (actually, translator) of another book I’ve long had on my “need to buy” list: his translation of Dante’s “The Divine Comedy”.