ROME 24/3– Day 11: Easter Sunday – With notes for priests on how properly to wear a stole

Looking at my queue in the admin area, I realized that I left the Easter Sunday post as a draft!

Hence, I will quickly add some points and move on.

Lunch at the nearby place, now a favorite, featured an interesting hybrid pasta, a cross between gricia (with guanciale) and cacio e pepe (but without pepper) and fried artichokes on top (alla giudia).

The texture was creamy like a properly made cacio e pepe which had a good contrast in the crunchy artichoke bits.

I had little appetite as it turned out and took most of it back to the apartment.  It is nice to have a kitchen while here.  Thank you donors!

One of my dining companions had these lovely chicken rolls with olives and capers.  I took one of these home too.

Beautiful.  You can tell what they believe here by the care they take of every detail of the church.

Very old processional banners were unfurled, recently restored.

Fathers… here is a lesson on how to wear a stole.  I know what you are thinking.  “I’m a priest.  I’m an expert at these things.”  Oh, yeah?  Most priests wear their stole hanging from the neck.  The stole, in the Roman fashion, should lie upon the shoulders.

Also, when it is a straight stole, as in this lovely Roman set the central bit is folded under and bound down by the cincture, as the two appended parts in front, crossed over the breast right over left, are also bound down.

A sausage made at this time of year.  I don’t recall the name.  It’s good.

Prep for my vegetable soup.

From the Vigil of Easter.

Larger HERE

A closer look at the vestments.

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The Lord of Life is the slayer of the death that is perpetual. In doing so, He was like the new Adam putting to right what the old Adam had failed to do. Consider how Adam, who was given guardianship of the garden and all that was in it, had also been given guardianship of Eve. Christ overturned the old defeat of our human nature and undid what Adam and Eve had done: St. Jerome has more to say about the new Adam and the curse of Eve:

Two different feelings occupied the minds of the women: fear and joy. Fear came from the magnitude of the miracle they had witnessed and joy from their desire for the resurrection. Nevertheless both feelings impelled their steps. They continued on to the apostles so that through them the seed of faith would be scattered. “And behold, Jesus met them, saying, ‘Hail!’” They who sought Him out and ran to Him deserved to be the first to meet the risen Lord and to hear Him say “Hail!”. Thus it happened that Eve’s curse was undone by these women. [Commentary on Matthew 4.28.8-9]