We’ve broken the 06:00 barrier for sunrise by 1 minute.
Sunset is at 20:15.
The Ave Maria Bell: 20:30
We are 125 days into this civic year.
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For centuries, bearing weight.
I’m really tired and I have more to do. A wall across from The Parish™.
Rest well Father !!
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LifeSite says :
Pope Leo XIV has appointed and ordained four new auxiliary bishops for Rome, selecting parish priests for the roles while urging “outreach to the marginalized” in a ceremony that underscored his vision for the Church’s mission on “the material and existential peripheries.”
On May 2, Pope Leo XIV consecrated four new auxiliary bishops for the Diocese of Rome in the Basilica of St. John Lateran – Stefano Sparapani, Alessandro Zenobbi, Andrea Carlevale and Marco Valenti – assigning them respectively to the west, east, south, and north sectors after announcing their appointment on February 25, 2026, and calling them to a pastoral mission focused on “those most excluded from society.”
“I encourage you to reach the discarded stones of this city and to proclaim to them that in Christ, our cornerstone, no one is excluded from becoming an active part of the holy building that is the Church and of the fraternity among human beings,” Leo said in his homily.
All four appointees were serving as parish priests at the time of their nomination and had not previously held episcopal office. Their selection reflects a profile rooted in ordinary pastoral ministry rather than in academic, curial, or specialized formation, echoing the style adopted by Pope Francis. The language used during the homily further reinforced this orientation. The expression “discarded stones,” employed by the Pope to describe those on the margins, follows the vocabulary of his predecessor, centered on social exclusion and reintegration.
At the same time, the new appointments follow a series of decisions that have modified the organizational structure of the Diocese of Rome. The four new auxiliary bishops have been placed in charge of the non-central sectors, while the central district has been re-established as a distinct entity and entrusted to separate leadership.
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Personally, I view this new policy for episcopal nominations, i.e. from within the Dioceses rather than appointed to them from without, as one of the only good Bergoglian reforms.
My body, which has also been bearing weight for years, kind of looks similar.