For this Palm Sunday, European “Daylight Savings has kicked in. We lost an hour, but we are back in usual sync with the USA.
Today the sun rise in Rome was, therefore, 06:56, rather than 05:56. Sunset is al 19:34, not 20:34.
The Ave Maria bell… here’s the test of the calendar… is listed at 2000, which is correct if they got the change from 18:45 to 19:45 correct yesterday (and I have my doubts).
I’m feeling a little better today.
The Candidates Tournament begins today in Cyprus. The winner will challenge Gukesh for the title of World Champion… the “title”, if not the reality. Speaking of Magnus, there is about to begin a “freestyle” (“Fischer Random”) tournament in Germany which will lead eventually to a world title.
Some Palm Sunday images. I think there will more from The Pro™, Barbara.
Singing the Passion, yours truly sang Christus.
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“In the old liturgy for Palm Sunday, the priest, arriving in front of the church, would knock loudly with the shaft of the processional cross on the door that was still closed; thereupon, it would be opened. This was a beautiful image of the mystery of Jesus Christ Himself Who,… pic.twitter.com/Qs5VyGXHP3
— Father V (@father_rmv) March 29, 2026
When Neil Armstrong landed on the Moon in 1969, he radioed back his position
The Sea of Tranquility
That name was not chosen by NASA
It was chosen by a Jesuit priest in Bologna in 1651
Giovanni Riccioli drew the first definitive map of the lunar surface
He named every… pic.twitter.com/ZgHjBhfy5m
— Robbert Leusink (@robbertleusink) March 28, 2026
And… I think my dear late friend (deacon) Harold Hughesdon might have been in this shot but inside the church on the other side of the door. A few years later, he’d be flying a fighter in the RAF. Requiescat, old friend.
Palm Sunday in 1933 at Westminster Cathedral, London pic.twitter.com/4KKhtgHDRn
— Catholic Sat (@CatholicSat) March 29, 2026
being both (1) of Swiss descent – so genetically obsessed with horology – and (2) an accountant, i can’t accept that both sunrise is an hour later and sunset an hour earlier after the clocks were bamboozled. those books gotta balance!!
That knocking at the door is normal at our parish, and indeed at all of the parishes down here.
Indeed, when our Bishop Monseigneur David first visited the parish after his installation, the same — plus supplication to be permitted entry, prostration before the altar, and a ritual of permission and recognition granted by the Parish Congregation through our PP.
It’s not only a Vetus Ordo thing.