I didn’t see it take place, but assuredly the sun rose on Rome at 6:46. It will set at 17:01.
The Vatican calendar is again screwed up. My records show that the Ave Maria was to change from its 17:30 cycle – 22 Oct – 4 Nov) yesterday to its 17:15 cycle (4-20 Nov). What to do? What to do about a bell that ought to ring, but never does… except at Ss Trinità – aka The Parish™?
Thank you for this day, O Lord.
If you are paying attention also to the auxiliary calendar in the back of the Traditional Missal, in the section for propers “in some places… aliquibus locis” there is a Mass today for the Feast of All Relics. It is certainly relic seasons, given the proximity to All Saints and All Souls and the theme of November being the Four Last Things.
Relics be the instruments of miracles, physical and spiritual. They are sacred. Poor care of a reliquary with a relic in it is sacrilege. Relics must not be sold. That’s a serious sin.
I am mindful today and grateful for the apostolate of my good friend Fr. Carlos Martins, whose Treasures of the Church has brought countless thousands of people into contact with holy relics, resulting in conversions and healings. At present he is taking a major relic of St. Jude the Apostle to different parishes in the United States, a real labor of love.
At The Parish™ we had a solemn displaying of the relics preserved there. I made a video. It’s a lovely event. In a way it is like looking at our Family Album together, for they are already in the family of Heaven and they are waiting for us.
All the parishes used to do in Rome once upon a time. No one does it anymore. I thought it was unique in Rome other than in Lent when in St. Peter’s many relics are exposed and the Veil of Veronica is displayed. However, I found some music written for Ostentatio Reliquiarum by one Cardinal Albrect Brandenburg. So, it was done elsewhere. Makes sense.
Speaking of family, yesterday at The Parish™ we had a Solemn Requiem for the 30th day from the burial of our friend and confrere in the Archconfraternity, Gian Carlo Ciccia. After the Mass we sand Vespers… and Matins… and Lauds…. it was really long. The music for the Mass was splendid, the Requiem for 6 voices by Tomás Luis de Victoria (+1611). There were also instruments.
Nice people! Great service!
Friends, taking this is was like being transported back to the early 17th century to see precisely what they would have done. The Guardiani of the Archconfraternity were in their habits and in the sanctuary, where they received Communion. The music was period and appropriate for the ritual and architecture. Victoria also spent time as a musician in Rome, so it was a Roman venture. Would you like to participate in a bit of it? Perhaps the Requiem?
The repetition of the ritual, so long used, so finely tuned and thought through by our forebears is a sacred action, an act of Religion, which brings great solace. The traditional Requiem Mass might be ornamented with more or less magnificent vestments, in a more or less magnificent setting, for a more or less famous person, rich or poor, powerful or small. We come into the world the same way and we go forth as well. All alike, we go before our Creator, the Just Judge, the King of Fearful Majesty. The older form of the Requiem doesn’t have lots of options, as the Novus Ordo does. The Novus Ordo, full of options, aims at being adapted, tailored, to make it express what we want to express. The Vetus Ordo reflects what Holy Church – the greatest expert on humanity there has ever been or will be – know what we really need, what it best for us, in particular for the person who is deceased: prayers for the person’s soul, relief from Purgatory, swift access to Heaven. That is the point of a Requiem: the deceased. The deceased is the point, but we are not excluded. We know that, with the older Rite, in our own time we will be prayed for in this most power and efficacious way. We know that we will receive what the Church knows what is best for us in that state: prayers, penances, indulgences.
It’s a matter of priorities.
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In churchy news….
Eccles posted the WINNERS of the 2024 World Cup of Synod Jargon. HERE
GOLD MEDAL for “forgiveness in the name of all the baptised for the sins against synodality”
SILVER for “the principle of circularity that animated the whole synodal process” https://t.co/tw0Di0aBtg— Eccles (@BruvverEccles) November 5, 2024
There were a great many “worthy” options for votes. Hard work. BUT… the voters walked together to a conclusion of this World Cup.
Meanwhile, …
The Catholic diocese of Yibin has organized a tour of patriotic shrines, “to express gratitude to the [Communist] Party.” https://t.co/dTiXGkE8D4
— Father V (@father_rmv) November 4, 2024
I wonder what the Holy See gets from the China deal that hasn’t been disclosed.
Also, because the Indonesian bishop declined to be made a Cardinal, Archbishop Battaglia of Naples has been chosen. Why he wasn’t chosen in the first place is a little baffling… it’s NAPLES after all, and not the one in Florida. The new Cardinal-elect has a reputation of being quite anti-mafia. Meanwhile, the Archbishop of Los Angeles is not a Cardinal. And I am not a Monsignor. Heck, I’m 65 now! There should be a world-wide movement.
The monks of Le Barroux in S. France make excellent wine. Help them and you help yourselves!
In chessy news…. HERE
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White to move and gain a winning position
[NB: I’ll hold comments with solutions ’till the next day so there won’t be “spoilers” for others.]
In chessy news… a THREE YEAR OLD from Kolkata (Calcutta for those of you in Columbia Heights) has rated 1555 ELO FIDE. 1555. He’s THREE. He name is Anish… which I suppose is a common name in that region. There is a well-known Super Grand Master Anish Giri. Anish did his first classical tournament last month where he faced opponents up to six years older. He scored 5.5/8 and finished 24th of 140 players. He played in another tournament for children under 13 years old a week later and fulfilled the minimum score required for a FIDE rating, which became official on 1 November.
Yeah… I think I’ll just quit chess.
But not before I get you to sign up for chess.com. I am an affiliate, so if you sign up, I get credit.
“Holy Church – the greatest expert on humanity there has ever been or will be – know(s) what we really need, what it best for us”
If only more people realized this.
“I wonder what the Holy See gets from the China deal that hasn’t been disclosed.”
It makes me wonder what the Beijing regime has on the Vatican that the latter is so tenacious of a deal it seems to get so little (or anything at all) out of. A deal that hasn’t been leaked yet, which is a remarkable thing in itself, in this day and age. I don’t consider myself much of a conspiracy theorist, but I increasingly get the feeling something terrible must be going on that we are ignorant of.
In the spirit of circularity and walking togetheriness, I’d vote for you for Monsignor. Where do I get my synodal ballot?
You’ll always be a monsignor in our eyes.
During the presentation of the relics video there were some wonderful organ interludes. Perhaps somebody might know what they were or where they came from? Perhaps the organist has personally collected them from various sources, maybe (hopefully) they exist in a published compilation?
Thank you for the help.