ROME 25/10 – Day 7: It was the best of times. It was the worst of times.

When did the sun rise over Rome, you ask, on this feast of St. Faustina?  7:09

When did the sun set over Rome on this Feast of Sts. Placido and Mauro?  18:47

Was the Ave Maria Bell supposed to ring?  Yes, at 19:00

Today also was the Supplica to Our Lady of Pompeii.

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More shots…

It’s always fun watch someone light the really high candles.  It’s sort of a pre-game entertainment.

I live a pretty isolated life when not in Rome so I really enjoy the sacristy activity.  This included the shushing of the bambini coming from their catechism classes from a priest who pointed up at the great SILENTIUM painted on the wall.   Ironically….I’ll leave it there.

Just nice.

Tonight at Vespers.  I have some audio clips but I really don’t want to get into the weeds.

For the rest….

Tonight after everything… Solemn Mass in the morning with all the FSSP, the Supplica holy hour for the Archconfraternity, lunch, Vespers, Mass, long day.  The Great Roman™ and I went for a drink at my usual watering hole on the Campo de’ Fiori, where we plumbed the depths of many questions. To our annoyance, a vagabond duo came along, bass and sax and, inter alia nugatoria, play the horrendous “Bella Ciao” which is the darling of commies and now Antifa.  I was not complementary to the guy asking for money.

Then we leave that place, head around the corner to the P.za Farnese so The Great Roman™ could find his car and I my digs. The street is nearly blocked.  We made our way through the crowd and it was all men, in couples, focused on a bar on the corner of the piazza … festooned completely with TRANS flags.

I will never get a coffee or drink from them again.    HERE  – VyNIQUE Farnese

Let it live in infamy.  Let it be forgotten and, unless local and corporate repent, my the holy angels block its view from those passing by until the bar DIES.

UPDATE:

I have to add this.  This is NUTS!

Chess… meets TEAM cage match.   innovative Checkmate: USA vs India match in Arlington, Texas.

India v. USA