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 you for this day.

Although… I hear that there is another encyclical coming.

I went across the river today for the first time since I’ve been here.   No, that’s not right.  I went over the near me, but not toward the Vatican, which I avoid as much as possible.

However, I had an errand there… a pleasant one as it turns out… to meet up with some well-known Catholic writers (whose names you would know).

I spotted that the Angel Bridge is all boxed up.   This is really a bad time to come to Rome for sightseeing.   Everything is entombed and being restored.

Then…

A quick stop in one of St. Philip Neri’s churches, San Giovanni dei Fiorentini.

This one saw the consistory list.  Poor little guy.

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Thanks to readers for flower money. I have some roses going. And Pippo gave me the outlier today when I stopped for alstroemeria.

Hey Fathers!  How about a clerical Guayabera shirt?

In chessy news… HERE.

(White to move and mate in 4)