Where I am the sun rose at 7:12 and it will set at 17:02.
If you were in Rome, after seeing the sunrise at 7:28 you could venerate the relics of St. Emerentiana at the Basilica of St. Agnes on the Via Nomentana and then later observe the sunset at 17:16 to be followed by the Ave Maria Bell, theoretically at 17:30.
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Last night priest friends and I went to a favored Chinese place for supper. We started with xiao long bao (not shown) and moved on to other delights.
This was the cumin lamb.
I had to move fast because one our gang practically lunged at the food as it came out of the kitchen.
Shrimp in mayonnaise with walnuts and pineapple. For those of you in Columbia Heights, yes, that’s broccoli.
Eggplant in garlic sauce.
Dry Pepper Chicken. Quite spicy.
Mixed Vegetables.
Another thing not shown here is the Beef in Hot Sauce. I know I took a photo, but this morning it isn’t in the album. Strange. It was a medium-sized bowl with a stew of beef, garlic, Chinese cabbage and lots of hot peppers with a touch of peppercorns. At this point even our lunging companion had to slow down. Good conversation. Good food. Hard to beat. It’s a pretty simple place. Nothing fancy about it at all, kind of a long marrow hole in the wall, but nice people and good food. We keep going back. I’ve slowly but surely been working out way through the menu, but something are absolutely necessary, like xiao long bao. They are not the best I’ve had, but they are pretty good. But they need bigger spoons! (Note to self. Bring spoon.)
In churchy news, I already posted about the great article on the Catholic teaching concerning “deportation”. HERE
After Chinese, when there was perhaps a little cigar smoke wafting, I saw a video for the first time of the decidedly stupid speech given by the bishopette aimed at 47 and colleagues. The reactions in the pews were great and quite restrained given the obvious insult. However, I saw this interesting tweet. HERE As we saw, Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) was in charge of the inaugural doings. As it turns out, that “bishopette” was in Minneapolis for a while, which was ground zero for women’s ordination in the Episcopal Church. So, Amy got her dig in, and used her position for a personal jab. But, hey, I grew up in Minneapolis where the Klobuchar name was familiar. Her father was a long time newspaper columnist, which is surely how she made her way: name recognition (not rare).
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In chessy news…. nah.
White to move and win. Win, not mate. There’s a move that wraps it up.
[NB: I’ll hold comments with solutions ’till the next day so there won’t be “spoilers” for others.]
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“I read on X a suggestions that the Gulf should be renamed the Gulf of Our Lady of Guadalupe.”
I would rather we didn’t. I don’t doubt the apparition. I DO question the Church’s emphasis on Hispanic culture. If Our Lady’s apparition aimed to encourage people to come to Christ, too many have assumed we may only worthily do so through a Hispanic lens. It’s as if no other group of people–like my own Irish or German ancestors–ever had any merit or faith. ..I can assure you they did.
Nor do I think the Gulf of America is especially wise either. Trump’s reference to Manifest Destiny in his inaugural address bears some scrutiny. I’m not terribly fond of Mexico and we certainly need to assert ourselves–protect our rights–with the Panama Canal. Still, I don’t think we have need to poke the Mexican people in the eye this way.