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Category Archives: SESSIUNCULA
ROME 24/3– Day 9: Good Friday
On this Good Friday the sun arose at 5:55 and it will set at 19:35. The Ave Maria bell is in its 19:00 phase. There are 279 days left in the year. The Roman Station is Santa Croce in Gerusalemme. … Read More
ROME 24/3– Day 8: Holy Thursday
Rome expected the sun to rise. This won’t always be the case. However, it did today at 05:57. Similar expectations await its setting at 19:34. The cycle of the Ave Maria bell changes today to 19:00. It hops by quarter … Read More
ROME 24/3– Day 7: Oooops!
Sunrise: 05:59. Sunset: 19:33. Ave Maria… still 18:45. The 15 minute shift is coming up. The Roman Station is Santa Maria Maggiore. Welcome registrant: Michael Joseph Last night, the full Moon over the Campo de’ Fiori. This is the full … Read More
ROME 24/3– Day 6: Quiet Day
Today sunrise was at 6:01. Sunset will occur at 19:32. Ave Maria 18:45 for a few more days. The Roman Station is Santa Prisca on the Aventine Hill. Today in the Vetus Ordo we read the Passion according to Mark. … Read More
ROME 24/3– Day 5: Getting stoffa
Today sunrise, with crystal clear skies and low temp of 42F, was at 6:02. Sunset will come at 18:30, 15 minutes before the Ave Maria Bell should ring to signal the end of the day’s business. It is Monday in … Read More
25 March 1991- Archbp. Marcel Lefebvre – Requiescat in pace
On this day in 1991 Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre died. Lefebvre was a great churchman, an astoundingly effective missionary. Much of the Church in French speaking Africa even today owes a great deal to his work. I find it not unusual … Read More
Your Sunday Sermon Notes – Palm Sunday 2024
It is Palm Sunday and the beginning of Holy Week. Was there a GOOD point made in the sermon you heard at your Sunday Mass of obligation? Tell about attendance especially for the Traditional Latin Mass. I hear that it … Read More
ROME 24/3– Day 4: Palms and Procession
The time of the rising of the sun upon Rome today was 06:04. It also set on schedule at 18:29. The Ave Maria bell is in the 18:45 cycle. Tomorrow is the Full Moon, first after the Vernal Equinox. The … Read More
ROME 24/3– Day 3: Buttery Blossoms
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 am … Read More
ROME 24/3– Day 2: Quiet, sort of, Stations and meals
In Rome the sunrise was at 06:07 and it set at 18:27. The Ave Maria bell ought to ring at 18:45 in this cycle. But it won’t. Too bad. We need more Ave Maria bells and less … whatever it … Read More
maternalView on MAIL CALL: A note about St. Expeditus and an online shrine: “Thank you! I don’t put many apps on my phone. I added this one.”
