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Category Archives: SESSIUNCULA
ROME 24/3– Days 18 & 19: Octave of Easter and Annunciation
The sun, which will not visibly eclipsed in totality from Rome, rose at 06:39 and it will set at 19:46. The Ave Maria should ring at 20:00 Speaking of the Ave Maria, today we celebrate the Feast of the Annunciation, … Read More
Your Sunday Sermon Notes: Low Sunday, Divine Mercy Sunday, Quasimodo Sunday, Thomas Sunday, Sunday “in albis depositis” 2024
Too many people today are without good, strong preaching, to the detriment of all. Share the good stuff. Was there a GOOD point made in the sermon you heard at your Mass of obligation for Low Sunday, 2nd of Easter? Tell … Read More
ROME 24/3– Day 17: Easter Saturday “in albis” (& Fr. Z’s Kitchen)
Hello sun at 06:42 and g’bye at 19:44. Ave Maria, still at 20:00. It is Saturday in albis. It is amazing how the Church wove the texts and readings of Holy Mass together over the Octave. Today, in the ancient … Read More
ROME 24/3– Day 16: Easter Friday (& Fr. Z’s Kitchen)
Please remember me when shopping online and use my affiliate links. US HERE – UK HERE WHY? This helps to pay for health insurance (massively hiked for this new year of surprises), utilities, groceries, etc.. At no extra cost, you provide help for which I … Read More
ROME 24/3– Day 15: Easter Thursday
The Parish™ 6 July 2023 4 April 2024 This beautiful sunny yet cool Roman day started by the sun’s rising at 06:45 and it will end at 19:42. The Ave Maria (which you know all about now) is at 20:00 … Read More
ROME 24/3– Day 13 & 14: Easter Tuesday and Wednesday – QUAERITUR: The Ave Maria Bell Explained… even too much
Today, 3 April, Easter Wednesday, at 6:47 the sun rose over the Eternal City. The sunlight day will begin to end at 19:40. I got a little screwed up with my days in posting, so this is a sort of … Read More
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ROME 24/3– Day 12: Easter Monday – great food
The sunny part of the day began at 06:50 and ended at 19:38. I’m writing on the 2nd. The Ave Maria: 19:00 (where rung) It was the Monday of the Octave of Easter, called “Pasquetta” here in Rome. At the … Read More
ROME 24/3– Day 11: Easter Sunday – With notes for priests on how properly to wear a stole
Looking at my queue in the admin area, I realized that I left the Easter Sunday post as a draft! Hence, I will quickly add some points and move on. Lunch at the nearby place, now a favorite, featured an … Read More
Your Sunday Sermon Notes – Easter Sunday 2024
It is EASTER Sunday and the beginning of Paschaltide. Was there a GOOD point made in the sermon you heard at your Sunday Mass of obligation? Did you go to liturgies of the Triduum? Did you GO TO CONFESSION? Tell … Read More
ROME 24/3– Day 10: Holy Saturday and the Harrowing of Hell
Sunrise, when? 05:54 Sunset, when? 19:36 Ave Maria? 19:00 Quiet day, as befitting Holy Saturday. All is quiet in the Church as Christ’s soon to be reclaimed Body is in the tomb while His human fused divinity harrows Hell. HEY! … Read More
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