ROME 26/5– Day 65 & 66: better late than the other thing

Up went the sun at 05:36.

Down it’ll go at 20:40.

The Ave Maria Bell, you ask? For the Curia 21:00.

However, the real schedule is pegged to sunset.

It is the Feast of St. Ferdinand, King of Castile and St. Petronilla, virgin martyr, and the wonderful St. Joan of Arc.

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A reminder to those who register. I take that “bio information” spot seriously. What you put in there doesn’t have to be elaborate. It just has to underscore that you are a real person. Confirmation names are pretty good as is favorite saint or prayer or the name of your parish even without the city. Get the idea? Ignore it or put something meaningless in there… I’ll delete the registration.

Here’s a good thing…

On Thursday May 28th I was in Omaha, Nebraska, where I ordained 12 priests for the FSSP in the Usus Antiquior of the Roman Rite. pic.twitter.com/AfZ0AlLoi1
— Thomas Wenski (@ThomasWenski) May 30, 2026

And we are facing what he said back then…

In 1933, Eugenio Cardinal Pacelli (the future Pope Pius XII) gave a prophetic warning concerning the tampering of the liturgy:
“This persistence of the Good Lady in face of the danger that threatens the Church is a divine warning against the suicide that the alteration of the… pic.twitter.com/fGQv08NeF0
— JamestheCatholic (@theTexasTrad) May 30, 2026

I feel like a bit of an underachiever…

Holy. Mackerel. https://t.co/dtebVffZDe
— Merriam-Webster (@MerriamWebster) May 29, 2026

White 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.

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