Up came the sun at 06:17. Down goeth the sun at 20:01.
The Ave Maria is in the 20:15 cycle for the Curia.
It is the feast of three saintly Popes of yore: Soter, Caius and Agapitus. Perhaps more important in Rome than in Columbia Heights or Broward County.
Meanwhile… there but for grace…
My Jesus, mercy. I am 66 and I was ordained in 1991. Pray for this priest. Requiescat in pace.
Please join me in prayer for the repose of the soul of Fr Dennis John Howard, who died this morning at the age of 65. He was ordained a priest in the Diocese of London, ON @DOL_ca April 28th, 1990 and incardinated into Diocese of Lansing, MI in 2001.https://t.co/WXfm6b8Iq9 pic.twitter.com/Fr0IpiJh8A
— Joe Sales (@joesales) April 21, 2026
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From Sunday’s lunch with The Great Roman™…
After lunch we were fiddling around with an app that shows the location of heavenly (physical) objects and we spotted a couple of amazing conjunctions.
Alas, it was full daylight and we could not see them.
In this engraving, we see what the washing of feet of female pilgrims was like by the sisters in the Archconfraternity of The Most Trinity of the Pilgrims and Convalescents. The customs of the Archcon have been revived, although we don’t yet have a Cardinal member to preside. It’s amazing how the details are the same.
When I have assisted, I’m the guy in the middle, though not a Cardinal. However, according to the reasoning of a certain document, I’ve discerned myself to be a “Monsignor”. Therefore everyone is obliged to accompany me as a Monsignor and to use my monsignorial pronouns.
In this following we read that in the Jubilee year of 1625, the Archcon members washed the feet of 567237 pilgrims and cared for 24306 sick pilgrims.
Can you imagine what it was like around that church and complex every day? Ss. Trinità was the second most visited church in Rome after St. Peter’s.
It is hard to describe briefly how important and even powerful the Archconfraternity was in those heady years of the amazing Roman 17th and 18th centuries, before everything flew apart.
Meanwhile, my work on a book continues. More research on Friday when I meet with an expert on 18th c. chess sets.
I could really use a laser printer.
Part of my work. Except… I have to rotate it. That’ll take some work, but I’m getting using GIMP.
Speaking of chess… black to move and mate in 4.
NB: I’ll hold comments with solutions ’till the next day so there won’t be “spoilers” for others.
