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A couple photos from the close of Forty Hours at my adoptive parish in Rome. FORTY HOURS MUST BE REVIVED.
BISHOPS! PAY ATTENTION! Do you even know what this is? Not just the old stories about the priests’ gatherings afterwards in the old days?
At the close of Forty Hours the Solemn Mass is coram Sanctissimo! It’s a rara avis now. I’ve done it a few times. It was such a powerful experience that it felt like a “first Mass”, or like what some older priests or bishops, such as Most Rev. Joseph Strickland, feel when they say the TLM for the first time.
From The World’s Best Sacristan™
In the “Freestyle” (960) invitational at the fancy German spa, where taste is, apparently, optional but the chess is surreal, Carlsen defeated the dangerous young 19 year old Nodirbek. The more I see of this young Uzbeki, the more impressed. He was the youngest male ever to win a World Championship (Rapid). The youngest ever champ was a woman. Heh. A girl. Heh heh.
The woes of the world continued as the Eumenides plagued poor Ding Liren who lost again. He did have a single win in this entire enterprise. I feel terrible for him. I feel like this for him. Especially because he lost to Puer (aka Alireza). GAH. His last game was disaster. To him…
Dismounted, we drank to bid you farewell.
I asked, “My friend, where are you heading?”
You said, “Oh, nothing is working my way,
So be back to the crags of Nanshan, retiring.”
“Go then! You’ll ask of the world no more!
Ah, days of endless white clouds, unending!”Wang Wei
I have to get back to my Chinese. After my Hungarian and Polish… and now maybe Ukrainian? Time to look at the Divine Liturgy. I digress.
Ding. You have a big one coming up. Pull it together.
Vincent Keymer beat Gukesh. Fine by me.
This photo below puts me a at ease. I was glad to see this photo on chess.com… of which I am now an affiliate… sign up with my link and I benefit… let’s get a CATHOLIC thing going…
Magnus needs a hair cut. He always needs a hair cut. Something in the Norwegian water?
Remember Magnus! I know you are reading this. Dating is not for “fun”. Dating is for your (plural) future life.
Black’s more. Can you mate in 3?
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I have identified the painting of the top of this post as “Popielec” (Ash Wednesday) by the Polish impressionist Julian Falat. The priest is wearing a white or gold chasuble. I have looked in Adrian Fortescue’s “Ceremonies of the Roman Rite Described” and found the following on p. 268: “ASH WEDNESDAY. The colour is purple for both blessing and Mass.”
Fortescue also indicates that, for the imposition of Ashes, which takes place before Mass, the celebrant is vested in a purple cope.
Did our Polish impressionist get it all wrong?
bluechieftain says: get it all wrong?
Yup. Pretty much.
Still, it’s a nice image. I find something else, since this might bother people’s aesthetic senses.
…, Qc7+
Rxc7, Rf8+
Rc8, Rxc8# (either Rook)