This morning the sun was on time to rise at 5:40. The sun was similarly punctual in setting at 20:35.
We don’t know about the Ave Maria Bell for the Curia, since they don’t ring it, but it ought to have rung at 21:00.
Today is the Feast of Our Lady, Help of Christians.
Today is also the “World Day of Prayer for the Church in China”.
Yesterday was the Feast of a wonderful saint, and important for The Parish™, St. Giovanni Battista de Rossi (+1764). He was entombed beneath the altar of one of the side chapels for a long time, until a church was built in his honor on the periphery of Rome. His body was translated there. However, the side chapel and tomb are still sacred and relics, by the fact that the saints body was there. Right now that side of the church is in scaffolding for cleaning and restoration. St. Philip Neri’s altar is also there, so the devotions that began today had to be at the main altar.
To bring you into the life of The Parish™ a bit, I made this little video. I tried to incorporate some pages of the booklet so you could at least here and there follow the litany, prayers and hymn. A triduum has begun in anticipation of the Feast of St. Philip Neri.
Here’s the hymn. I’m sure you will sing along!
Welcome registrants:
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A couple shots of the altar of today’s saint from last year:
Another painting but in a different church:
A reliquary with relics of saints who have been here or were involved with the Archconfraternity.
Note also St. Joseph and the House of Loreto.
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I recently enjoyed Holly Ordway’s contribution to the collection Tolkien among the Theologians – a sort of Oratory (and Oxford) update-essay to her biography of John Ronald Reuel Philip Tolkien (who took his fourth name from St. Philip).