On this beautiful Sunday, when Pope Leo took possession of the Cathedral of Rome, the sun rose at 5:39 and it set at 20:36.
The Ave Maria Bell would have rung at 21:00
Today is the feast of Gregory VII, Venerable Bede and Maria Magdalena de’ Pazzi… and it is the 5th Sunday after Easter in the more venerable and not pazzo calendar.
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Today was The Parish™ pilgrimage for the Jubilee … which maybe is starting to pick up a little… to St. Peter’s and its Holy Door. It was sunny and very warm today, so we really got heated up, but a large crowd of parishioners came, impressive.
I might try to assemble some videos people send (if they are not all in the pernicious vertical orientation which makes them hard to deal with).
All along the way we sang the Litany and other things all in Latin. Many gawkers took photos of us.
Just behind me is where I lay prostrate on the floor during the Litany of Saints exactly 34 years ago… tomorrow!
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I look forward to these posts with your commentary and photos every day of your Roman sojourn. Thank you, Father. Happy anniversary a little early!
It looks wonderful. I can’t imagine how in your environment you must feel to be there, it is home for you in many ways. If only you could stay all the time. And congratulations on your anniversary! Thirty four years of serving the Lord. Thank you for it. We all benefited, your teaching over the years has been a great help, you kind of picked up where Mother Angelica left off, in our lives. You ended up with a real teaching ministry, to a congregation you mostly never met but which numbers in the thousands if not tens of thousands.
@Kathleen10 absolutely. I have learnt so much about the faith (especially the liturgy), church politics and other intracacies of the church just from this blog.
May God bless Fr Z and all good priests.
Kathleen10: “… a congregation you mostly never met but which numbers in the thousands if not tens of thousands”
Absolutely, Kathleen. I still remember about 14 years ago when a young guy in my choir, born mid-80s, knowing I was Traditional, said: “do you know about Fr. Zuhlsdorf’s blog? I love it!”
Ex ore infantium…