Today the sunrise in Rome was at 7:35 and the sun should set at 18:13…. ooops… no … wait. The Curial calendar did not reset. “Daylight Savings” here ended yesterday night. Hence, today’s calendar page should say sunrise was at 6:35 and sunset at 17:13.
The Ave Maria Maria, therefore, will be in its “normal” 17:30… which they got right on the calendar!
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Yesterday the church was jammed for the closing Mass of the Summorum Pontificum Pilgrimage. “See you next year!” BTW…I’m told there were probably about 5000 people at St. Peters. The Vatican people had estimated there might be 500.
For lunch some of us went to Ai Balestrari a Campo de’ Fiori. The bruschette were okay, because you can’t screw them up easily.
The scamorza was cooked to consistency of shoe sole.
They do preserve one of the old phones that took gettone. Memories.
This is the second time I’ve eaten at this place. The ONLY reason I went back was for the company. On my own I would never eat here again. Mediocre tourist trap.
Or just have a couple bruschette and a beer.
White to move and mate in 2.
NB: I’ll hold comments with solutions ’till the next day so there won’t be “spoilers” for others.
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This comment by Damian is a tad overly optimistic, given that this was a single event. However, we’ll take it! It is a “win”, especially given the number of people who turned out for it. And for the exorcism at the end.
‘Leo XIV, by authorising the Mass in St Peter’s, has put an end to the most drastic phase of the liturgical war against the Vetus Ordo inaugurated with Traditionis Custodes.’ By @nicospuntoni: https://t.co/eDphWoJVsn pic.twitter.com/1BAkUV5V6A
— Damian Thompson (@holysmoke) October 27, 2025
What we need, really need, is for Rome to back off on the persecution of diocesan priests. Revising and extending on that, Rome needs to signal to diocesan bishops to stop persecuting their flocks by not allow priests of the diocese to use the older books. The enemies of the traditional forms understood that it is through the diocesan priests that the real growth and influence of the traditional Roman Rite would come. That’s why they drop the hammer the hardest on them, and through them, the people in the pews.But wait… there’s more…
Massive SSPX Pilgrimage in Lourdes this morning. https://t.co/hP97tBAMj8
— Catholic Sat (@CatholicSat) October 26, 2025
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Looking at that SSPX video at Lourdes I cannot believe there are some at the Vatican who believe that the TLM “problem” resides mainly in the USA!
1. Bh6 g7xB (only move)
2. Qa1 mate
“What we need… is for Rome to back off on the persecution of diocesan priests… Rome needs to signal to diocesan bishops to stop persecuting their flocks by not allow priests of the diocese to use the older books.”
I think that is a very reasonable first step. It will get more difficult thereafter: how to (as we hope) eviscerate Traditionis Perditores and largely resurrect Summorum Pontificum without creating the appearance of an ever-swinging legislative pendulum? I doubt we’re going to see “Libertas Missæ Ætatum”* setting everything right in one fell swoop! So if there must be a gradual approach, the next step might be to disinter the PCED, restore to it the powers described in Universæ Ecclesiæ i.e. as primary recourse with regard to these disputes, and “edit” Traditionis Perditores accordingly.
*a fictional (wishful) name
Wow! The SSPX needed the big underground Basilica. I was recently in Lourdes and we had Mass in a small chapel which is used for the TLM.
A parenthetical observation: I always think that the green patterned carpet around and below the altar in your picture poses a terrible tripping hazard at the corners.
1. Bh6 gxh6 2. Qa1#
@L – very much so!
1) Bh6 gxh6 (forced)
2) Qa1 mate
I think what we need is the “cancelled masses” to be reinstated stated by the priests themselves. I mean, the Bishop of Charlotte…. come on, who’d listen to a buffoon like him. I’m thousands of miles away on Hadrians Wall but seriously what threat could he be to anyone.
On another issue I’m reliably informed by Mrs Pict the it is your birthday Fr Z….!!! 66 and all that. When can we hope to see you again in the Coal Hole by the Strand, Londonshire….???
We will leave our northern fastness and travel south and even buy you a pint…. not all Picts are as generous as that. Cheers.
1. B-h6 . . g7×h6 (Black’s only move)
2. Q-a1#