More from Sant’Ignazio. The tomb of St. John Berchmans.
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Speaking of Jesuits…
Today the Firefly lunar lander Blue Ghost successfully (softly and in a stable, well-behaved way) touched down on the moon, the last stage beings entirely autonomous to avoid iffy terrain. The landing site is in Mare Crisium, which is visible from the Northern Hemisphere in the upper right of the full Moon. It is sometimes called the “Sea of Crises”. Some of you might know it from a story by Arthur C. Clarke. It is NE of Mare Tranquillitatis. A Soviet lander went there in 1976. Blue Ghost 1 launched on 15 January and is part of the CLIPS program, which pairs NASA up with companies making their own landers and payloads.
There is a fascinating connection between the name of the company and the place where Blue Ghost landed, but I’ll save that for News of the Church, which I want to do today, before Lent.
Here is a dramatic photo, one of the first to come back…
A blessing for the Church that @FrMarcusHolden has been appointed Rector of the Pontifical Beda College in Rome.
Saint Bede, pray for him. pic.twitter.com/l4Qoh8vdCs
— Fr Timothy Finigan (@FatherTF) March 2, 2025
After legislators in Campeche, Mexico, decided to decriminalize abortion, Bishop José Francisco Gonzalez announced that Catholics involved in or advocating for abortion will be excommunicated.
Follow: @AFpost pic.twitter.com/bh4FHMRxxj
— AF Post (@AFpost) March 1, 2025
The month of March is dedicated to St. Joseph, Guardian of the Redeemer and Patron of the Universal Church. pic.twitter.com/jjqrmXxcgF
— Father V (@father_rmv) February 28, 2025
In chessy news… HERE
Here’s a good one. White to move and win material. There’s a mini windmill.
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Here’s a good one. White to move and win material. There’s a mini windmill.
NB: I’ll hold comments with solutions ’till the next day so there won’t be “spoilers” for others.
In the esports teams thingy… “Puer” joined Team Falcons Esports who also has Hikaru. Team Liquid has Magnus Carlsen and Fabiano Caruana.
The Jeans of Magnus: they sold for $36K.
Fr Marcus Holden is wonderful.
Funny how the Space Program is always looking for “LIFE” or signs there was once water. Yet, a Child in the womb is a clump of tissue. God help them.
Oh yes, don’t forget William Shatner, aka Captain Kirk who went to space and came back with tears in his eyes crying “There is nothing there!”