When 06:00 arrived, up came the sun here in Rome. One minute ago as I write, which is 20:15, the sun officially set.
The schedule for the Ave Maria Bell is still 20:30, though technically it should be more closely connected to sunset.
In the older calendar today we celebrate St. Monica, the mother of St. Augustine, who died at Ostia, Rome’s port on their way back to N. Africa. She has a lovely collect:
Deus, mæréntium consolátor et in te sperántium salus, qui beátæ Mónicæ pias lácrimas in conversióne fílii sui Augustíni misericórditer suscepísti: da nobis utriúsque intervéntu; peccáta nostra deploráre, et grátiæ tuæ indulgéntiam inveníre.
More about her in another post.
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Which drink is mine?
Okay, that was an easy one. For bonus points: Can you guess what it is?
There is still only one because I was waiting for friends to arrive and I wanted to be “using” the table rather than just sitting at it when others were circling.
A nice shot from this morning’s Solemn Mass.
A nice shot from Solemn Vespers with Benediction.
And a nice shot of ITALIAN FSSP seminarians who were with us for Good Shepherd Sunday. A great sign of life.
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Ice tea?
Love the photo of seminarians. Brick by brick.
Americano or Negroni would be my guess as to your drink.
Matt: Oooo… sooooo close. You get points for that. But.. not… quite.. close.
The darker color red suggests whiskey instead of gin, so is it a boulevardier? The cocktail is an American invention, btw.
Tu vuo’ fa’ l’americano
‘Mericano, ‘mericano
Sient’a mme chi t’ ‘o ffa fa
Tu vuoi vivere alla moda
Ma se bevi whisky and soda
Po’ te siente ‘e disturba
Tu abball’ o’ rock’n’roll
Tu gioch’ a baseball….
It’s a Manhattan surely. If not, it ought to be. Thank you for all you do.
I’ll go with an Aperol spritz . . . because of the color and the orange.
la bevanda mi sembra un chinotto
Nice pics of Solemn Mass, vespers and the seminarians! A few of the young men have very short surplices. Is that a particular style to be so short, or is it because that’s all that was available?
Here’s a totally superficial question. Is the white collar on the MC/sacristan and some others a shirt collar, worn over the neck of the cassock? Is it a dickey? It’s very smart looking.
First… it is a negroni… BUT… it isn’t.
It is a “negroni sbagliato”.
The collars of the servers are sort of like the collar of St Philip, which means sort of like the collars of the oratorians. Not quite. They do look good.
Yes. I had noticed the similarity to the Oratorians’ collars. Very nice.