From St. Peter’s Basilica today from The World’s Best Sacristan™.
And from The Parish™.
Here is something interesting at The Parish™. For extra credit, who can explain this?
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When St. Dominic was worried over the future of the Dominican Order, he went to St. Peter’s to pray. There, the two apostles, Peter and Paul, appeared to him, and confirmed him in his mission.
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I wonder if the libs who yammer about the use of the cappa magna will insult the Ecumenical Patriarch.
His Holiness Pope Leo XIV and a delegation of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople pray at the tomb of St. Peter this morning, the Feast of the Holy Apostles Saints Peter and Paul. pic.twitter.com/dMZQgjRces
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Hey Fathers! How about a clerical Guayabera shirt? (They have mostly lay clothes, but they have some clerical items, too.)
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First plaque: “In this place, Peter and Paul left one another, and Paul, going to his martyrdom, said to Peter, “Peace be with you, O foundation of the Church and pastor of all Christ’s sheep.” And Peter to Paul, “Go in peace, O preacher of the good ones and guide of salvation for the just.” From the Letter of [Pseudo] Dionysius to Timothy [NB: today not counted in the Dionysian corpus].
Second plaque: The above plaque, formerly placed on the exterior of our chapel on the Via Ostiense, was brought here after the demolition of the same chapel and placed here for an eternal memory, AD 1935.
The main inscription says —
At this spot, St.Peter and St.Paul parted company on their way to martyrdom, and Paul said to Peter: Peace be with you, Co-Foundation of The Church and Shepherd of all Christ’s lambs; and Peter to Paul: Go in peace, Preacher to the blessed and Guide unto salvation of the just.
(Dionysius, in Letter to Timothy)
A speculative Google revealed the existence of a non-scriptural and pseudepigraphical (he didn’t really write it) Letter to Timothy attributed to Dionysius The Areopagite, an Athenian converted by St. Paul.
The lower inscription says —
The stone above, already sited on the outside of our chapel on the Via Ostia, was brought to these parts when that one was demolished and placed here as an abiding memorial in the year of Our Lord 1935.
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All very unusual. I wonder how old the first one is?
The Choir’s singing of Palestrina’s ‘Tu est Petrus’ is very lovely indeed! Msgr. Pavan has done a wonderful job shaping these young voices into a disciplined mellifluous instrument. The perceived imbalance in volume between the parts (especially with regard to the seemingly overpowering soprano voices) is most often due to microphone placement and mixing, and may not necessarily reflect the quality of the singing.