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Category Archives: SESSIUNCULA
ROME 26/5– Day 62 & 63: NEWS
When, you ask, was sunrise in Rome? It was at 5:38. And you will likely ask when the sunset was, too. It was at 20:37. The Ave Maria for the Curia is in the 21:00 cycle. In the New Fangled … Read More
OLDIE PODCAzT 87: Veni Sancte Spiritus – The Pentecost Sequence dissected
Original Notes from : In this PODCAzT I dissect the Pentecost Sequence, Veni Sancte Spiritus, also used during the Octave of Pentecost in the traditional Roman calendar. I give you some background on what a sequence is, what an octave … Read More
26 May 1991: 35th anniversary of ordination – It was Trinity Sunday and St. Philip Neri
Many priests observe the anniversary of their ordination at this time of year. It is a common time for ordinations, probably because Ember Days were common times for ordinations and Ember Days fall during the Pentecost Octave. In any event, … Read More
ROME 26/5– Day 61: initial notes on the encyclical
Liturgically busy day, just as it was in life. I’m getting behind. By the end of the day, I’m…. ugh. The Roman sun rose at 5:39. The Roman sun set at 20: 36. In the Curia the Ave Maria Bell … Read More
ROME 26/5– Day 59 & 60: A lovely view
On Pentecost Sunday, the son broke the Roman horizon at 05:40. The setting therefore was at 20:35. The lengthening of days produces these lovely long evenings of light found only here. The Ave Maria Bell has shifted into the 2100 … Read More
WDTPRS – Pentecost Sunday – Vetus Ordo: Savvy?
In Acts 2 Peter addressed the crowds and unfolded to them the ramifications of what had been done to Christ and the consequences of his Resurrection in the light of the descent of the Holy Spirit like illuminating tongues of … Read More
ROME 26/5– Day 57 & 58: doubled up
My heavens… my days in Rome are numbered, unless I change my flights. Another double post. I’m getting slammed. And I am bone weary. Sunrise: 5:4… Sunset: 20:3… A… yeah yeah… 20:45 Welcome Registrant: Dom Anselm Marie Yesterday was the … Read More
ROME 26/5– Day 56: All that Jasmine… no, not the…
At 5:43 the sun rose upon Rome. I was already up (and not because I wanted to be) It will set at 20:31 (I’ll be up then, too). Were the Ave Maria Bell to ring, it would do so for … Read More
ROME 26/5– Day 54 & 55: double
On this 19th day of the month we celebrate Feast day of one counted as a saint, but whom Dante put in Hell for having made “the great refusal”. St. Peter Celestine (+1296)/ Just goes to show that quitting the … Read More
Pagliarani and Leo at Tanagra
While texting with a priest friend recently an idea came up. Picture if you will… SSPX Superior Fr. Davide Pagliarani going to the Sant’Anna gate of the Vatican every day asking that Pope Leo grant him an audience. Rain or … Read More
Suburbanbanshee on NEW BOOK about how the Novus Ordo Lectionary came to be with its cycles and edits of Scripture: “Duuuuude! The Susanna reading is the BEST! I go to church on a weekday especially for the boy detective reading!…”
