In Brooklyn today the sun rose at 5:24 (in Rome at 5:32) and it will set at 20:27 (in Rome at 20:48). In Rome, the Ave Maria Bell will not ring for the Curia at 21:15, but it will at The Parish™ at 21:18.
The only place it will ring in Brooklyn is on my wonderful Ave Maria Clock phone app… unless there are other people here, I hope, who have been classy enough to download it, at 20:57.
We decided last night, priests and some seminarians that is, decided not to go out to eat because of the Knick’s game and because of other activities we knew were going on at usual places. Hence I made a huge batch of sauce for rigatoni all’aAmaticiana. Alas, this is the only photo I thought to take. However, since the guanciale is the only ingredient other than tomatoes, this is about the most important point. After, you apply pecorino cheese as a necessary component. I like also chopped parsley as a garnish.
There wasn’t much of anything left. And we saved a lot of money staying in.
White to move and mate in 4.
NB: I’ll hold comments with solutions ’till the next day so there won’t be “spoilers” for others.
I think tonight we may be going back for round two of Chinese.
Meanwhile…
As it turns out, I may be in Philadelphia on 4 July! Cool?The Committee of Five—John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Robert Livingston, and Roger Sherman—was appointed to draft the Declaration of Independence 250 years ago today.
— Library of Congress (@librarycongress) June 11, 2026
Jefferson's draft of the document is here at the Library, and will be featured in a new… pic.twitter.com/Ja1jHvqgkT
nex001 on “…the young are more to be pitied, since they know not of what they have been deprived.”: ““Let the little children come to me.””
