Here is a shot of the bright Venus. This is is my view.
Am I fortunate?
Comments are closed.
Coat of Arms by D Burkart
St. John Eudes
- Prosper of Aquitaine (+c.455), De gratia Dei et libero arbitrio contra Collatorem 22.61
Nota bene: I do not answer these numbers or this Skype address. You won't get me "live". I check for messages regularly.
WDTPRS
020 8133 4535
651-447-6265
“He [Satan] will set up a counter-Church which will be the ape of the Church because, he the devil, is the ape of God. It will have all the notes and characteristics of the Church, but in reverse and emptied of its divine content. It will be a mystical body of the anti-Christ that will in all externals resemble the mystical body of Christ. In desperate need for God, whom he nevertheless refuses to adore, modern man in his loneliness and frustration will hunger more and more for membership in a community that will give him enlargement of purpose, but at the cost of losing himself in some vague collectivity.”
“Who is going to save our Church? Not our bishops, not our priests and religious. It is up to you, the people. You have the minds, the eyes, and the ears to save the Church. Your mission is to see that your priests act like priests, your bishops act like bishops.”
- Fulton Sheen
Therefore, ACTIVATE YOUR CONFIRMATION and get to work!
- C.S. Lewis
PLEASE subscribe via PayPal if it is useful. Zelle and Wise are better, but PayPal is convenient.
A monthly subscription donation means I have steady income I can plan on. I put you my list of benefactors for whom I pray and for whom I often say Holy Mass.
In view of the rapidly changing challenges I now face, I would like to add more $10/month subscribers. Will you please help?
For a one time donation...
"But if, in any layman who is indeed imbued with literature, ignorance of the Latin language, which we can truly call the 'catholic' language, indicates a certain sluggishness in his love toward the Church, how much more fitting it is that each and every cleric should be adequately practiced and skilled in that language!" - Pius XI
"Let us realize that this remark of Cicero (Brutus 37, 140) can be in a certain way referred to [young lay people]: 'It is not so much a matter of distinction to know Latin as it is disgraceful not to know it.'" - St. John Paul II
Grant unto thy Church, we beseech Thee, O merciful God, that She, being gathered together by the Holy Ghost, may be in no wise troubled by attack from her foes. O God, who by sin art offended and by penance pacified, mercifully regard the prayers of Thy people making supplication unto Thee,and turn away the scourges of Thine anger which we deserve for our sins. Almighty and Everlasting God, in whose Hand are the power and the government of every realm: look down upon and help the Christian people that the heathen nations who trust in the fierceness of their own might may be crushed by the power of thine Arm. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, Thy Son, who liveth and reigneth with Thee in the unity of the Holy Ghost, God, world without end. R. Amen.
If you travel internationally, this is a super useful gizmo for your mobile internet data. I use one. If you get one through my link, I get data rewards.
Visits tracked by Statcounter since Sat., 25 Nov. 2006:
Are you rubbing it in? Just because we have a blizzard watch and are up to our butts in snow……..
michigan: I post them because I love you.
BTW: The bright part is P.za Navona!
Fortunate? Yes.
Camera Settings?
Fr. Z:
Horace in his Epistles (II. 2) complains that he cannot write poetry in Rome for all the hustle and bustle that disturbs him. Among other things he mentions “a large crane hoisting now a stone, now a beam” (torquet nunc lapidem, nunc ingens machina tignum). It is curious that all of your “window” photos show an ubiquitous crane. I don’t suppose it’s the same one Horace saw, but, hercle, is it ever going to be finished? It’s been 2000 years since Horatius wrote his Sermones!
And also, I’m left to wonder, which will come first: the crane removal or the motu proprio?
Fr Z:
It’s so bad here the Catholic churches are cancelling Saturday evening Masses, the snowplows have stopped running and people are being warned not to go outside because human flesh freezes in just a few minutes in this weather.
Please say a prayer for us that the power doesn’t go out in this area. It’s windy by the lake.
I often see lights like that — usually atop towers at oil refineries and the like. :-P
Being one of those folks who crosses himself whenever passing (or seeing) a Catholic “worship space,” I imagine I would appear a bit ridiculous in Rome, what with crossing myself every five seconds Lucky you, indeed.
Andrew: I am reminded of a piece by Juvenal about a man fleeing Rome and describing what goes on in the City. If could have been written about today’s Rome! And, yes, I think it might actually by the same crane.
Andrew: I am reminded of a piece by Juvenal about a man fleeing Rome and describing what goes on in the City. If could have been written about today’s Rome! And, yes, I think it might actually by the same crane.
And probably for the same job.
During my years there it was amazing to see scaffolding put up, no work done, then taken down, only to be put up again.
Did you notice the planet Mercury below and to the right of Venus?
(Zoom in to see it)