At Rome (how said in Latin?) the sun rose at 7:16. The sun will set at 18:37. Clouds moving in. Will we see it?
The Ave Maria Bell has, according to the Vatican that never sounds it, shifted to the 18:45 cycle.
The Vatican calendar indicates today at the Feast of John XXIII. However the Vetus calendar has today as the Feast of the Maternity of Mary. It is also the Feast of St. Philip the Deacon.
Thank you for this day, O Lord.
Sauteed porcini mushrooms.
On the way home the other night.
In a nearby church is this lovely tribute to Out Lady. There is a detail at the bottom….
… which should not be missed. Click for larger. HERE The heretics Pelagius Mohammed and Luther are identified by heresies. Mohammed was long considered a Christian heretic (as in Dante). There are hell-critters near them, which is only proper. I see a couple of cardinals too, which also seems proper right now.
The restaurants of the Campo are aggressively pushing into the space these days. They are not all tourist traps. Some are quite good.
In churchy news… I really haven’t been following much since I was mostly focused on what happened in Florida.
What’s going on?
Are they still “walking together”? Oh,… yes, there was something. The Jesuits hosted a meeting for sodomite luv at their HQ, replete with some Cardinals, one of whom is a Jesuit (I thought they were suppose to decline… oh well…) from Hong Kong. Jasmine was there of course. I’m sure it was a gay ol’ time.
This is why I often don’t even want to know the news. But it is better to know some things than not.
In chessy news… HERE
(White to play and mate in 3)
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NB: I’ll hold comments with solutions ’till the next day so there won’t be “spoilers” for others.
In London at the Tech Mahindra Global Chess League 2024 the PBG Alaskan Knights defeated Triveni Continental Kings to become the first finalists. They will face the winner of Alpine SG Pipers and TCK. Anish Giri (who beat “Puer”), Nodirbek Abdusattorov, Zhongyi Tan and Alina Kashlinskaya scored the victories to ensure their team’s place in the finals. Round 10 starts today: Ganges Grandmasters v. upGrad Mumba Masters from 1 p.m. London time.
Giri v Firouzja… Puer screwed up and the arbiter had to be called in. He moved and let go of a rook and grabbed it again to place it on a different square (a blunder, too), but Giri had noticed. Giri stopped the clock, claimed a breach of rules (“touch-move”). Giri was angling for more time to be put on his clock but the move was also a blunder. YAY!
The Indian announcer gets a little excited.
Fr. Z thank you for all of your columns! Did you know that the daily chess quiz has not been showing up for a few days? It just shows “Daily Quiz” and a big blank area where the board would show. I have checked it on Safari and Chrome browsers on Mac, and Edge on Windows. I have checked on several computers.
I hope it can be fixed – I enjoy it every day! Take care and God bless.
I wonder how many of the unseen guests were at the conference of Luv. I can smell sulphur right now. Sick. Let us pray for their conversion.
“At Rome (how said in Latin?) the sun rose at 7:16. The sun will set at 18:37. Clouds moving in. Will we see it?”
Romae (quomodo dicitur latine?) Sol Ortus est VII:XVI, et occiderit XVIII:XXXVII. Nubibus venientibus, eum videamus?
Qxh7+, Kxh7
Rh4+, Kg8
Re8#
There are indeed some good restaurants on the Campo dei Fiori. I make a point of going to La Carbonara every time I am in Rome. Yes, the food is very good, but it is also for nostalgia’s sake as well. I have been going there since 1975, which means that next year, in addition to the Giubileo, will be the 50th anniversary of my first visit to La Carbonara. I used to always get pajata there, but they stopped serving it a dozen or so years ago, so I have to go elsewhere for my veal intestine fix.