The calendar says sunrise was at 6:38.
The sunset was at 17:09.
For Curia the Ave Maria Bell would have been at 17:30.
However I was in the sacristy of The Parish™ tonight because I had presided over a ritual washing of feet by the Archconfraternity of the Most Holy Trinity of the Pilgrims and Convalescents, going back to the mid-16th century as founded by St. Philip Neri. In the sacristy, before Mass, I heard the Ave Maria ring at about 17:38. I want to get a clean recording for you.
Meanwhile…
I’ve been WAITING!!!!
The Jetson ONE personal air vehicle.
Price: $128,000pic.twitter.com/qrlTipWFqm
— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) October 30, 2025
And….
Preparativi#Newman #DottoredellaChiesa #Vaticano pic.twitter.com/U4vRQgBCgQ
— Vatican News (@vaticannews_it) October 29, 2025
When Titans Walked The Earth… both acting and the script.
From a recent meal….
You’ve seen it before, pizza bianca and sliced tongue with a lovely green herbal sauce and homemade mayo. A nice starter to share.
This is rib-sticking.
Risotto with saffron topped with ossobuco. ka’BLAM
Dig that marrow!
A lot of chess is being played. Can I have a day off, please?
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My 5 yo grandson and I made risotto recently and he loved it. I need to make it again soon.
… and the directing, and the cinematography … Oh my! Thank you, Father, for the memory!
I can’t wait until the Personal Air Vehicle is used by one of the “With It” Novus Ordo Priests, who will make his “Entrance” into the “Mass” on one of these new-fangled guizmos.
Singing, of course, “She’ll Be Coming Round The Mountain When She Comes” !!!
There is a clip of Ernest Milton, Orson Welles, and Peter O’Toole discussing Hamlet on a television program:
https://youtu.be/smMa38CZCSU?si=2rl8RJH6nG8EnmDB
They were great actors, not just because they could act, but because they could understand.
As my Scripture studies intensify in my old-age-unemployment, too early to retire, I’m exploring the Hellenistic and Roman perspectives at the coming of Christ. Because I don’t know about my confreres in other milieus, but around these parts, we learn scripture from a strict Hebrew Jewish perspective as the anti-Marcionist continuity of OT+NT.
Anyway, I loved D’Aulaire’s Greek Myths when I was just a tyke (tykon?) and I find it fascinating to step into the hypothetical shoes of a figmentary Greek plebe, or some dude in Egypt, and envision what they might’ve gleaned from the Koine texts that were coming out of Alexandria in those days.
Now I’m being encouraged to read the modern saints and the recent encyclicals and the 24/7 news cycle is force-fed to me, it feels like a mikveh on the sabbath to recover cultural knowledge and pop-culture references that strengthen and confirm our faith. (What is the deal with that tower in Siloam anyway?)