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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
ROME 26/5– Day 53: Persevere!
5:46 – this was sunrise 20:28 – this was sunset 20:45 – this is for the Ave Maria Bell St. Paschal Baylón is remembered on his feast day. He was a model of perseverance in pursuing his vocation. He also … Read More
ROME 26/5– Day 52: lace imitates God’s beauty enlaced in flowers
On this Feast of St. Ubaldus the sun came into view at 5:47. We will lose sight of it again at 20:27. Our ears will not hear in the Curia the un-rung Ave Maria Bell at 20:45. But it does … Read More
Fr. John Zuhlsdorf on ROME 26/6 – Day 74-75: Last Day: “Eugene: I suppose that it has been the custom in Italy going way back. In fact, in older rites books…”
