Monthly Archives: October 2024

Rome 24/10 – Day 31: The game’s afoot

The weather here should be perfect for the rest of my stay.   Thus say the forecasts. On this 305th day of the calendar year and the 31st of my Roman Sojourn, the sun rose at 06:40.   It will set at 17:07.    … Read More

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31 October: All Hallows Eve – Vigil of All Saints

The Roman Church for centuries observed a vigil before the Feast of All Saints. All Saints is a Holy Day of Obligation.  Make a plan. We Roman fast before our feasts. The fast was intended also as a way to … Read More

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IMPORTANT about the Confessional, Your Phone, and … Who Knows?

At the National Catholic Register there is a story about how the Bishop of Lincoln has told priests, “NO PHONES in the Confessional”. HERE Bishop James Conley of the Diocese of Lincoln, Nebraska, formalized a new policy this year banning … Read More

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Rome 24/10 – Day 30: A little help, please

On 30 October, after the priests have said their usual morning Masses, The World’s Best Sacristan™ is already setting up Missals and vestments for observance of the Vigil on the 31st, though strictly speaking it is not in the 1962 … Read More

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Celebrating Palestrina at at Sacred Heart Church in Grand Rapids, MI in 2025 – world famous choirs

Any number of parishes could do something like this.  Here is a parish that has done something! My friends at Sacred Heart in Grand Rapids, MI had a wonderful idea which they have executed expertly. They are celebrating in 5th … Read More

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UPDATED! – Really? I ask the readership… a serious question… no, really… the MASCOT for the Jubilee Year

UPDATE: 30 October 2024 More… below. UPDATE: 29 October 2024 From bad to…whatever level this is.   More work by the same guy who designed this… whatever this is.  BELOW. And remember the logo for the 2025 Jubilee (which you see … Read More

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Meanwhile, the actual teenagers….

Meanwhile, the actual teenagers… https://t.co/Fem7TaV6vC pic.twitter.com/iFZFsZq64t — Samuel J. Howard (@Jahaza) October 28, 2024 UPDATE: The boomers at the Vatican have no idea what they have unleashed. https://t.co/Df7wFB19N9 — Catholic Sat (@CatholicSat) October 29, 2024 UPDATE: Once the Church inspired … Read More

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Rome 24/10 – Day 29: “The lady doth protest too much, methinks”

I note that the Vatican curial calendar is back on track several days after the end of the “ora legale”. Good work guys. The sun rose at 06:37 (if the calendar is to be believed), 7 minutes after I did. … Read More

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Rome 24/10 – Day 28: Impossible causes

On this Feast of the Apostles Simon and Jude, when some of our thoughts turn to impossible causes, the sun rose NOT at 07:36 as the screwed up Vatican calendar says, but rather at 06:38 at 107° East.  It will set, again … Read More

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Your Sunday Sermon Notes – Christ the King (N.O.: 30th) 2024

Too many people today are without good, strong preaching, to the detriment of all. Share the good stuff. Was there a GOOD point made in the sermon you heard at your Mass of obligation for this Feast of Christ the … Read More

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Rome 24/10 – Day 27: The end of time

The sun rose today at 7:35 on the Vatican curial calendar but the hour is now different since daylight savings ended at 03:00 here in the Central European Time zone: hence 6:37 (the calendar is off a couple minutes according … Read More

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BOOK REPORT: Brother Petroc’s Return by S.M.C.

Brother Petroc’s Return by S.M.C. US HERE – UK HERE Recommended to me by a priest friend recently here in Rome. I found it on Amazon.it and read it in one evening. Charming. No doubt S. M.C = Sr. Mary … Read More

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Rome 24/10 – Day 26: Waiting for the bride

For the sun’s rising, I can report the hour of 07:34.  Sunset is still a bit in the future as I write at 18:14. The Ave Maria is still in the 18:30 cycle. It is the feast of St. Dimitri … Read More

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Annual St Crispin Day – Henry V speech roundup!

What you have been waiting for all month, I’m sure, knowing that soon it would be St. Crispin’s. The 3rd c. martyrs Crispin and Crispinian were killed in Soissons.  They converted people as they plied their trade as cobblers and … Read More

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Rome 24/10 – Day 25: “This day is called the Feast of Crispian…”

Behind the clouds over Rome, the sun rose at 07:32 and at 18:15 it will set, hopefully with no clouds, or at least no rain.  I have to be out and about this evening. The Ave Maria ought to ring … Read More

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Rome 24/10 – Day 24: Copies

While the sunset tonight will be at Rome’s 18:17, the sun rose behind rain clouds at 07:31. And I do mean rain. Tonight there ought to ring the Ave Maria in the 18:30 cycle in Roman Curia. However, I thought … Read More

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23 October 2023 – The altar painting of the Holy Trinity by Guido Reni taken down for an exposition.

23 October 2023 – The altar painting of the Holy Trinity at Santissima Trinità dei Pellegrini in Rome by Guido Reni is taken down for an exposition.

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23 October – St. Severinus Boethius: “A man content to go to heaven alone will never go to heaven.”

“A man content to go to heaven alone will never go to Heaven” – Boethius What have you done, lately, to help someone get to Heaven? Today is the feast of St. Severinus Boethius (+525), the author of the Consolation … Read More

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Rome 24/10 – Day 23: The Deposition

At 7:30 the sun rose here in Rome. It set at 18:18. The Ave Maria is at 18:30 I think a church in the neighborhood is ringing the Ave Maria.  I’ll try to capture it.  It was 3-4-5-1 at exactly … Read More

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Rome 24/10 – Day 22: Over the river

07:29 for the sun rise and 18:20 for the sunset here in Rome. It was a lovely midday and not so lovely late afternoon. The Ave Maria is 18:30. It is/was the Feast of St. John Paul II. Lord, thank … Read More

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