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. Such short days, each shorter.
The Ave Maria ought to ring at 17:30 for a few more days before the cycle changes.
Thank you for this day, O Lord.
Apartment sleuthing news: I have consulted with the wonderful rather senior lady with the realty agency in the area. I have suspected a rat about the place I had been looking at. However, they found me another possibility that will work very well, though it won’t be as luminous. It will have a very quiet address, across from a place guarded by the police, with a small interior courtyard I can use freely. The rent is good. Ground floor. I had yesterday in a Holy Votive Mass of St. Joseph asked for help again. He is so powerful as an intercessor and he was my guy when, some time ago, I needed a place with urgency. I am hopeful. The next few days will tell. If it goes, I’ll let you know. The way I figure, even if I cannot spend a great deal of time here, it’ll still be less expensive in the long run than the way I am doing it now. Sure, my place now is really nice. But, damn.
Please say a prayer for this, perhaps quickly, to St. Joseph: Help Fr. Z with his apartment project.
Since it is Reformation Day, we might observe it by checking out a book about Martin Luther. It was written by someone just a couple decades after Luther, hence firmly within living memory. It was originally in French, vetted by the University of Paris, and then Latin. The title (with apologies to a priest friend and piper) is:
The Devil’s Bagpipe: The True Life of Martin Luther by James Lang (Author) and Fr. Robert Nixon (Translator)
It is a short read, but packed, as is consistent with writers before the age of word processors.
On 1 Nov, All Saints at The Parish™, there will be an exposition of the relics here. The World’s Best Sacristan this morning was doing some work on reliquaries of St. Erasmus, martyr and St. Agapitus, martyr.
Something is definitely afoot. Maybe this saint can help with my pied-à-terre?
Spotted last night at the Campo… at the bar restaurant “Eretico” next to the statue of the heretic Giordano Bruno.
They are also against spelling.
Something has to be done about the pedana at the vestment cases in the sacristy. It is getting really bad and one day it is going to hurt someone.
Last night I wanted chicken… so I made chicken.
Thank you to a reader who made it possible to get bottles of hot sauce from my amazon wish list before I came over. US – HERE I brought a couple. It was a nice addition to the chicken.
In churchy news… after the end of walking together about walking togetherity there is a 3 days of darkness … conference on walking together about walking togetherity. HERE
“From the Council to the Synod: Rereading a Church’s Journey, 60 Years on Since Lumen Gentium (1964–2024)” — was hosted by the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome from Oct. 28–30.
In chessy news…. HERE
(White to play and mate in 2)
QUAERITUR: How’s it going having the chessy stuff in a comment?
White to move and mate in 2
[NB: I’ll hold comments with solutions ’till the next day so there won’t be “spoilers” for others.]
BIG SALE right now on courses from this fellow. He helped my game. Interested in learning? Try THIS.
Fabiano won the 9LX tournament in St. Louis ahead of Hikaru and Wesley. Fabi is playing amazing chess. At 61 years of age Garry Kasparov, former Champ, came in 4th.
I am sorry you are not here in Chile.
Thomas and I could fix that step up in one day, good as original condition.
Love the Chicken Legs we are eating the same for Lunch today.
Also in your kindness could you and your readers include,
Padre Pancho (Francisco Triviño)
of Osorno Chile, in your prayers. He passed away yesterday. He was a good priest who provided my family, here in Chile at my house, with Clandestine Masses during the circus event from 2021-2022.
Not a traditional Priest but a good one none the less. He was 72 years old. He was ordained October 24, 1981. He did not speak any English but he was always very patient and kind and very pious. May his soul and all the souls of the faithfully departed rest in Peace. May the perpetual Light of Christ shine upon him.
Yucatan Sunshine is great! Used to be my mainstay, and I forgot about it.
Also worthwhile, Russell Kirk’s book *Ancestral Shadows.*. Sorry, I don’t know where to find the italics key here.?????
In my list of Prayers for Priests: Fr. Z, his parents, the place he wants to find. Spera in Deo!
My prayers to St. Joseph for your new residence in Rome,
1. Q-f8+
If . . . . . . . K×f8
2. R-d8#
If . . . . . . . K-h7
2. Q-g7#
1. Qf8+ Kh7
2. Qg7#
If 1. …Kxf8
2. Rd8#
1. Qf8+ Kh7
2. Qg7#
OR
1. Qf8+ Kxf8
2. Rd8#
Myyyy eyyyyeeessssss thhheeeee purrrrpppllllllle
Qf8+, Kxf8
Rd8#
Or
Qf8+, Kh7
Qg7#
St Joseph, terror of demons and father of clergy, help Fr Z with this apartment situation, please.
Father Z, even your blogging when you are in Rome is different, lighter, with a sense that you’re in your element, in your neighborhood, there seeing your friends and neighbors, where you are happiest….
Joseph most just, it’s time, help our friend Father Z.
Those potatoes look delicioso. Also, the World’s Best Sacristan is as cute as can be.