As predicted, the sun rose over the Eternal City at 06:39.
About 13 hours and 6 minutes later the sun will officially be down (except the Gianicolo is sort of in the way) at 19:45.
The “Ave Maria”, if we are sticking to the easy cycle calculation, would ring at 20:00.
It is Wednesday in the Octave of Easter and it is the 98th day of the calendar year.
It is the anniversary of the assassination of Caracalla in 217 and in 1974 Hank Aaron hit his 715th home run.
In 2014 Microsoft stopped supporting Windows XP, which means that I have to maintain an older computer running Virtual Machine so I have access to a spectacular database on virtual CD-ROMs of classical and patristic and ecclesial texts. Grrrr.
It’s chore day. I am tidying up the apartment. I did laundry and put it out in my miniscule courtyard (court… stamp) to dry. I’ve handled an Amazon order for a visiting friend here and received a delivery of some things I purchased yesterday. Internety things are on the slate and I have listened to a podcast that has made me pretty mad for a moment or two until I consigned it to proper basket. I will try to edit together a short walking video as some premium content for Roman donors.
Speaking of which, I said Mass for the intention of all my Roman Donor benefactors on Easter Sunday. On Monday Mass was for donors, Tuesday for the family of SW. Today for MB+ from MP.
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I thought there was one unique expression of the Roman Rite, such that, the pre-Conciliar Roman Rite, in use for a thousand years, must be suppressed.
The Zaire Rite is so beautiful ?
The Zaire Rite, or “Roman Missal for the Dioceses of Zaire,” is a valid, Vatican-approved (1988) liturgical form of the Roman Rite for the Democratic Republic of Congo. It is a key example of inculturation, integrating African cultural… pic.twitter.com/r2qoaBeSGX
— Fra Francis U. Ezeh OFM Cap (@FrCescoofmcap) April 8, 2026
I’m slated to go out tonight with friends from the States in town (last night) and the Great Roman™ with the Great Roman Spouse™. Japanese. More later on that.
White to move and mate in 4.
