I’m happy to report that the sun did rise over Rome at 5:41 and that it did set at 20:33. However I was in my bedroom for the first and in a restaurant for the later (where I ran into the “windy cardinal” in lay clothes with another cardinal in mufti). We were not far from the prosciutto carving rack with its severely sharp long knife, but there wasn’t time to chat. He locked eyes for a moment and surely knew he’d been recognized, so they brushed by and slithered onto the rain dampened cobbles to vanish up the Via Pollarola. Chickens. Namely… the street name refers to the fact that chickens were once sold there. My barber is also in that street, who has multiple sharp objects. For cutting hair.
The Ave Maria Bell was to be rung at 21:00. Notice the change?
BTW… the prosciutto remark refers to the fact that the first really sweet melons are coming now and we are getting prosciutto e melone. It’s an anticipation of Heaven. It helps to slice prosciutto very thin.
Speaking of instruments of work.
THAT knife is a clue that some water critter is about to arrive.
I met German friend, long time read and donor, tonight for supper. We both agreed that lunch supper lunch supper lunch supper was getting to us, so we opted for elegant but low impact.
We both had the same thing. The heavy part was the conversation.
And… at The Parish™, The Pastor™ doing what needs to be done before evening Mass.
And walking home.
For supper we had wine, but as I was eating I thought, “Wow, this would be great with BEER from Norcia!”
I’m too tired to write about chess.
Just buy some beer, please.
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you mentioned elsewhere not quite knowing what a substack is. it’s a blog platform that allows monetization and so far doesn’t impose leftist censorship like most other common similar platforms. Don Surber has a good one about general interest news, updated every day but Sunday. so does Glenn Reynolds, but his updates are less frequent.
I like all these pictures of Rome, I have many good memories of my years there. I used to walk a lot, every day taking a different route, visiting old places, churches, museums, alleys. Each time of the year is special, for instance, during winter very early it becomes dark and the city looks different with all the lights. Also, after the rain the pebbled streets look gorgeous.
Do you have any favorite places in Rome for gelato?
Back in the 1970s my elderly (Italian) grandfather would occasionally come over to my parents house for Sunday dinner. Prosciutto e melone in the spring and summer was always on the menu, along with his own homemade red wine. Hah!
Sid: Gelato? No! I don’t have a favorite place. I don’t have much of a sweet tooth so gelato doesn’t exert its “siren call” to me. I know of good places, but I haven’t had a gelato here for … a couple of years, probably.
@Sid
I have a sweet tooth, and try to have at least one gelato every day when I’m in Italy!
These are my favourites in Rome:
Gelateria dei Gracchi
Via dei Gracchi, 272, 00193
OGGI
Via Tacito, 66, 00193
Giolitti
Via degli Uffici del Vicario, 40, 00186
And Venchi at FCO for my last one before leaving
Dear Father,
My wife and I will make our very first visit to Rome for Christmas and New Year, just booked our tickets. Any recommendations for a one-week trip during that period? And any advice on how to get admission to the Papal Masses? Otherwise, we will of course be attending Mass at St.ma Trinità dei Pellegrini! Thank you in advance.
@blackscholescat
https://www.vatican.va/content/vatican/en/info.html for info to obtain tickets to Papal events amongst others
I thank Fr. Z and all who answered my request for a Gelato place. To date my favorites are Giolitti and Ciampani.