In Rome we got sun at 06:02.
It set at 20:13.
The Ave Maria Bell is in the 20:30 cycle.
In the Novus Ordo calendar, along with being the 5th Sunday OF Easter, it is the Feast of the Apostles Philip and James the Lesser.
In the Vetus Ordo, in the back of the Missal, we find texts today the Feast of the Finding of the Cross. The orations are terrific.
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Welcome Registrant:
Phil the Elder
The damage this man did was inestimable.
I wonder if he found them easier to negotiate with than liturgists. https://t.co/p8q6UBIq1f
— Joseph Shaw (@LMSChairman) May 2, 2026
White to move and win.
NB: I’ll hold comments with solutions ’till the next day so there won’t be “spoilers” for others.
A screenshot of this instead of posting code, so that I don’t slime up my page. Two comments. A priest how long and that was a first Mass ad orientem? Celebrating Mass this way is so far off his radar that he doesn’t know enough Latin to spell it correctly. St. Ignatius would be so proud.
Pray that he have the courage to work with Courage.
I was out to lunch with The Great Roman™ after Mass today. We went to a nearly legendary place right on the Campo and had a great meal. We ate inside in the “upper room”. It was quiet and some air was on the move with open windows. The saltimbocca was, honestly, the best I’ve had in a Centro restaurant for years. Mixed salad for veg and a glass of Cesanese (a varietal common in Lazio). More on that below.
I took a big step. I got my jasmine (no, not the Jesuit). I’ll transplant it into that nearby planter and let it climb.
In the restaurant today there was a great framed “Bando” decree from 1716 fixing prices of meats, qualities and terms of sales.
I quite enjoy the stipulation that …
Terrific saltimbocca today. With a little bread at the end … ho fatto la scarpetta.
Okay, prediction time. Fr Martin SJ gets hooked by celebrating…. ad orientum. Eventually, he celebrates ad orientem, includes Latin, full “anti-hero conversion story arc.”…. becomes an erudite traditional philospher and full-throated defender of tradition in a way that would make Pope St Pius V blush.
In other news, I saw a flying bacon sandwich this morning.