Getting ready for confirmations at The Parish™. Photos from The World’s Best Sacristan™.
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Today, Pentecost Sunday at Pantheon, Rome
Absolutely unreal?? pic.twitter.com/GQGZosIiIK
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Firefighters drop thousands of rose petals through the oculus of the Pantheon in a spectacular Pentecost tradition in Rome.pic.twitter.com/nssoq81thj
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Hymn of Pentecost, Veni Creator Spiritus. #Pentecost #chant pic.twitter.com/pwDYeOd9VY
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Proper concelebration on the Chartres Pilgrimage
White to move and mate in 7! There are two techniques in here you should be able to name. Also, note what a deadly combo a queen and a knight can be.
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White to move and mate in 7! There are two techniques in here you should be able to name. Also, note what a deadly combo a queen and a knight can be.
NB: I’ll hold comments with solutions ’till the next day so there won’t be “spoilers” for others.
The “proper concelebration on the Chartres Pilgrimage” picture brought tears to my eyes.
Wonderful photo of the simultaneous celebration. I have regular access to two churchs/chapels where there are many small side altars. One one or two days a year, I would love to have such a concelebration done, with likeminded priests, with all of the side altars being used. There are still relics in the altars. OK, the side altars were needed for simultaneous celebration of Mass, when Mass was restricted to the morning hours with the long fast, there were many priests and we did not have concelebration. Still, a wonderful form of worship and a sign of solidarity in the Eucharist in an older way.
No one has posted on the chess problem yet, and perhaps no wonder — White is down two minor pieces, and soon to be three down, if he can’t save his Knight; his Queen will be pinned against his King if he moves that Knight; and if he tries to get out of the pin by castling, he loses his Queen, plus castles into mate on the King’s side. A multitude of troubles, but the solution lies in seeing the pattern which the problem presents: it is a setup for that classic form of smothered mate called Philidor’s legacy. But first one has to get rid of the pesky Rook that pins White’s Queen:
1. Qe5+ Ka8 (forced; if Kc8, Qc7 mates)
2. Nc7+ Kb8
3. NxR dis+ Ka8 (forced again)
And now, with the Queen unpinned, White can proceed with Philidor’s mate:
4. Nc7+ Kb8
5. Na6 dis+ Ka8
6. Qb8+ RxQ
7. Nc7 mate