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Remember COVID and all the churches being shut down? I live streamed Holy Mass everyday to quite a large viewership. At that time, a tech savvy fellow set up a page called LatinMass.live, where you can STILL find live streams of TLMs. I was on that list until I was driven “underground” as it were. Anyway, he has a YouTube channel and needs some subscriptions so he can live stream. They require at least 1000, I think. You might help him out. HERE. I am not sure where he is going with this, but during COVID he performed a service for which we all should be very grateful. I sure am. Give him a boost.
And another thing… as I was leaving Rome, someone sent me a donation designated for flowers. I didn’t get flowers there, since I was leaving, but I bought some yesterday for the Two Trinities Chapel, which should take me up to Advent and their removal.
In situ…
I do like alstroemeria. They are a type of lily, if I understand rightly. They last a long time. I think that that is why my flower guy at the Campo de’ Fiori doesn’t like them! It’s a running thing between us. He doesn’t often have them and I usually have to ask ahead.
They look nice with the colors of the Murillo and the beautiful green vestments, the gift of a long-time reader and live-streamer follower back in the day.
I think I mentioned while in Rome that I found a copy of this Murillo in San Crisogono. The original is in Room 30 of the National Gallery in London. It is magnificent, a late work and perhaps one of his last before his death. I once got to London fairly often and this painting was a frequent visit, since I greedily haunted the Gallery, usually finishing my museum crawls at a pub at Seven Dials. I digress. The copy in San Crisogono.
Meanwhile, white to move. Mate in FOUR.
1. Rxe6+ Nxe6 2. Qh8+ Nf8 3. Qxf8+ Kxf8 4. Rd8#
NB: I’ll hold comments with solutions ’till the next day so there won’t be “spoilers” for others.
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The monks at Norcia have completed their guest house. Benedictines have a strong dimension of hospitality, so guest houses are important. You can help them with this and other projects. And the beer is GREAT.
In St. Louis, Fabiano Caruana won the 2023 Saint Louis Rapid & Blitz after winner-take-all game with Maxime Vachier-Lagrave. MVL finished second. Ian Nepomniachtchi and Le Quang Liem tied for third. Next, the Sinquefield Cup, the final leg of the 2023 Grand Chess Tour, begins Tuesday 21 November. Last year there was the huge blow up between Magnus and Niemann. That’s settled now. Sort of.
Have a great Sunday! Pray for me, please.
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1. Re6+ Nxe6
2. Qh8+ Nf8
3. Qxf8+ Kxf8
4. Rd8#
Took like a minute, same as yesterday’s.
It would be nice to once again read your blog while you are in England. Perhaps your readers can donate for a trip. “blognics anyone?” And how is your friend and fellow blogger, Fr. Timothy Finigan, doing? Last I heard/read was that his health was poor. I wish him well.
To paint a picture like that, I think Murillo should be canonized.
acardnal says: Fr. Finigan Yes, Father has had non-trivial health problems over the years. We are not in touch as often as before, but I also hear about him from mutual friends. I would very much like to see him again and spend a little time in London catching up with friends.
The S Crisogno painting is very interesting, as the figures of the Earthly Trinity are nearly copies, even to the drapery and the setting of steps, though St Joseph’s face is changed and much younger (a tribute to a patron perhaps?), but God the Father is absent, so the Holy Trinity not in fact present. This is really “The Holy Family with the Holy Ghost”, perhaps even “The apotheosis of the Holy Family”. I don’t think that’s a blasphemous description.
It is all the stranger as the proportions of the canvas are in fact taller than the National Gallery painting, so the figure of the Father not omitted for space grounds, but as a definite choice.
The Holy Ghost has been moved up to fill the gap (as indeed has also the Family group), and thus the ‘greek-cross’ shape of the two Trinities in the Murillo is this missing.
The quality of the brushwork is distinctly less than Murillo’s, so this is I think certainly a later copy, indeed, it looks 19th century in the reduced detail and colour-palette.
Un mistero! Indeed that makes three Mysteries – the two in the Murillo and this one…
Thank you so much for this fun post!
I pray for you daily, Fr. Z, and for your mother.