On my way home.
The delays with Delta have begun.
UPDATE:
The plane arrived. I hope the weather window allows an escape.
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Next leg!
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In the lounge, on the way to a new home.
8 week old Australian Labradoodle.
So we have a dog, but no plane yet.
UPDATE
Better late than never.
Two years ago today I posted this. I haven’t changed my mind one little bit. Not an iota.
I had this from a reader. He said he was not advocating these things. However, liberals will advocate them.
I’ve got some other suggestions. But first the wacky liberal stuff:
I have an idea for a blog topic – how about brainstorming with your readers on the top 10 changes that Pope Francis will make that will shock the Church and the world. I would orient the discussion around the Pope’s “vision” that the Church is for the poor and should itself be poor. For example, here are some ideas I had:
1) Pope Francis will live at the Lateran Basilica as an example that he will live a simple life away from the Vatican.
2) Pope Francis will allow the ordination of women deacons in service to the poor.
3) Pope Francis will sell the Vatican Museums to a private company and give the proceeds to the poor.
4) Pope Francis will get a petition from the English speaking bishops and will rescind use of the 2010 RM because the language is too complicated.
5) Pope Francis will repudiate Humanae Vitae since too many children tends to perpetuate poverty.
Yep. This is precisely what liberals will push for, hopelessly. [In fact, they are pushing for some pretty subversive thing, but I don’t think they will get their way. That doesn’t mean that there won’t be a lot of damage.]
What do I think we should push for?
As many celebrations of the older form of the Roman Rite as possible in as many places as possible as soon as possible.
It’s ‘grind it out’ time.
I am getting some defeatist email.
Those of you who want the older form of the liturgy, and all that comes with it, should…
1) Work with sweat and money to make it happen. If you thought you worked hard before? Been at this a long time? HAH! Get to work! “Oooo! It’s tooo haaard!” BOO HOO!
2) Get involved with all the works of charity that your parishes or groups sponsor. Make a strong showing. Make your presence known. If Pope Francis wants a Church for the poor, then we respond, “OORAH!!” The “traditionalist” will be second-to-none in getting involved. “Dear Father… you can count on the ‘Stable Group of TLM Petitioners-For-By-Now-Several-Months” to help with the collection of clothing for the poor! Tell us what you need!”
3) Pray and fast and give alms. Think you have been doing that? HAH! Think again. If you love, you can do more.
4) Form up and get organized. You can do this. Find like minded people and get that request for the implementation of Summorum Pontificum together, how you will raise the money to help buy the stuff the parish will need and DO IT. Make a plan. Find people. Execute!
5) Get your ego and your own petty little personal interpretations and preferences of how Father ought to wiggle his pinky at the third word out of the way. It is team-work time. If we don’t sacrifice individually, we will stay divided and we won’t achieve our objectives.
At the midway point of SEAL training, BUD/S, there is a “Hell Week” to see how much you want it to keep going.
Do you want this? Do you? Or, when you don’t get what you want handed to you, are you going to whine about it and then blame others?
The legislation is in place. The young priests and seminarians are dying to get into this stuff. Give them something to do.
And to those of you will you blurt out “But Father! But Father!… I don’t like your militaristic imagery”… in order to derail the entry, here’s a new image from your own back yard.
Pope Benedict gave you, boys and girls, over the course of his 8 years, a beautiful new bicycle! He gave you a direction, some encouragement, a snow cone, and a running push. Now, take off the training wheels and RIDE THE DAMN BIKE!
It’s the Feast of the wonderful St. Joseph! In his Litany we invoke him under beautiful titles, including Pillar of families, Solace of the wretched, Hope of the sick, Patron of the dying and, my favorite, Terror of demons.
Happy Name Day, Pope Benedict!
As I write, The Great Roman™ Fabrizio is texting me photos of the procession in the streets of Roman for St. Joseph.
A few shots in almost real time…
Thanks to the Great Roman™!
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I drilled into a beautiful Gregorian chant hymn to St. Joseph in the Liturgia Horarum, the Liturgy of the Hours.
The hymn is Te, Ioseph celebrent and it is in the Liber Hymnarius for 1st and 2nd Vespers for the Feast of St. Joseph.
Also we listened to an indulgenced prayer written by Pope Leo XIII, Ad Te Ioseph.
Finally, we hear St. Bernardine of Siena (+1444) preach on our Patron of the Universal Church who is Patron of the dying.
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UPDATE on the procession!
More images are flowing in.
UPDATE:
At Holy Innocents in Manhattan, my friends have built a St. Joseph Table.
An interesting thing happened while I was updating this post. At a certain point none of the images of St. Joseph would upload. They just froze. I tried other images, not a problem. So, a quick prayer or two and badda bing… up they went. Terror daemonum… ora pro nobis.
Kudos to the folks at Holy Innocents… who are also busy with Rosaries in front of the big-business abortion-for-profit Planned Parenthood.
MEANWHILE… back in Rome… the procession comes to a conclusion.
UPDATE:
The auxiliary bishop blesses the crowd
Back into church for Mass.
The Great Roman™ says that they were reminded to pray also for the Pope Emeritus.
This is what I wrote for The Catholic Herald about St. Joseph Tables. It should be in the present number of the magazine:
19 March is the feast of the glorious St Joseph, earthly father of Our Savior, Spouse and chaste Guardian of the Virgin Mary. Among his titles in the Litany in his honor we sing Pillar of families, Solace of the wretched, Hope of the Sick, Patron of the Dying, Terror of Demons, Protector of the Church. Many customs adorn his feast day to which we, like “las golondrinas”, the swallows of Capistrano of song, would be happy and wise to return. St Joseph is a formidable intercessor, upon whose help I have several times relied in time of dire need.
Speaking of customs for this feast, one of the most beautiful is the building of a St Joseph Table. During the Middle Ages there occurred a terrible drought in Sicily. The people turned to Joseph for succor. They’re prayers were answered, for as I mentioned he is a powerful intercessor. In their gratitude the people distributed food to the poor. Can you get more Catholic than that? Ever since, it is the custom among Italians, especially Sicilians, to build a table in three-levels in honor of the Trinity with a statue of the Saint at it’s summit. The tables are loaded with customary Lent-appropriate foods (Joseph’s feast is always during Lent), the priest blesses them, and the less-fortunate especially are invited to partake. The Table includes breads baked in shapes like chalices and carpenter’s tools, 12 different fish for the 12 Apostles, lilies for purity and pineapples to symbolize hospitality. I’m not clear about the pineapple thing, but they are delicious. You might also see lots of breadcrumbs scattered about, because they look like sawdust. There is a traditional pasta dish “di San Giuse” with breadcrumbs rather than grated cheese. When we Catholics were serious about our identity and the Lenten fast, we didn’t eat cheese during Lent.
Of Joseph, St Bernardine of Siena (d 1444) preached:
If the whole Church is in the debt of the Virgin Mary, since, through her, it was able to receive the Christ, surely after her, it also owes to Joseph special thanks and veneration. … Therefore be mindful of us, blessed Joseph, and intercede for us with Him Whom men thought to be your Son. Win for us the favour of the most Blessed Virgin your spouse, the mother of Him Who lives and reigns with the Holy Spirit through ages unending. Amen.
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UPDATE:
More from Rome. You’ll love this.
The Great Roman™ texts:
The bishop invited all – in the name of St Joseph – to receive in the mouth and NOT in the hands to avoid risks of falling particles!!
It is a wonderful feast day.
UPDATE:
CUCCANGA!
And Frittelle di San Giuseppe!
And it wouldn’t be a festa without…
UPDATE:
Meanwhile, back in NYC at Holy Innocents, Father is blessing the zeppoli!
It looks he is using his phone for the text of the blessing, and I’ll wager that he is using the “Ad omnia“. In it, you get to say “creaturas istas” without naming them. Figuring out a Latin term for zeppoli isn’t easy. The etymology of the word is difficult. In late Latin there is a form zippulae which isn’t very satisfying but will do in a pinch. It stands for a cake of dough and honey. It might come from cippus which is like a shive or wedge. It might come from serpula which has to do with the serpentine shape some of them have when fried. I also saw a word frictilia, which I doubt but which is fun.
UPDATE:
Meanwhile… back in Rome…
Bigné di San Giuseppe!
I’ve given a couple talks here in Florida in the last couple days, both during Q&A and after, and also in my email, I’m getting questions about Card. Kasper’s claim, made in a recent speech, that the forthcoming Apostolic Exhortation (following the two Synods on the Family) is going to “turn the page” on some 1700 years of whatever.
Let’s first remember that Card. Kasper has a fluid relationship with the truth. What do I mean by that? For Card. Kasper the truth is a moving target when it comes to interpreting texts, even texts of Scripture. As the scholar Robert Stark pointed out, those who talk about bending the Church’s teachings (and practices) to “reality”, would say that truth can vary from place to place and time to time. What might have once been true doesn’t necessary need to be true now. The German/Kasperite/Rahnerian approach replaces the philosophical grounding of theology with politics (majorities can determine truth, and that might diverge from what people thought in the past). Truth changes according to shifting mores, values, etc. To hell with reason (e.g., syllogisms).
Also, let’s remember that His Eminence spins. Quite a bit. Who can forget how he denied making those amazing comments about how African bishops shouldn’t tell the Synod what to do. HERE Of course the great Edward Pentin had a recording.
So, now Card. Kasper says that the new document is going to be a really big deal!
Suuuure it is!
There is a good piece in the UK’s best Catholic weekly, The Catholic Herald by Ed Condon. HERE A couple quips…
[…]
While there is no question that there needs to be an urgent rethink about how parishes pastorally respond to, and better include, families in this situation, and while we all hope that Pope Francis will produce something profound and original to this end, the zombie-like return of Cardinal Kasper and his eponymous proposal would be an ecclesiastical nightmare, and his comments have caused more than a little concern.
The theological contradictions of such a move have already been expounded at great length, and, if they need to be again, I shall leave them to those theologically better qualified than myself to do so.
But before too much is assumed from Cardinal Kasper’s comments, we should remember that that he has already demonstrated a willingness to claim that documents say something which they clearly do not – he famously insisted that the final relatio of the family synod “opened a door” for his plan. The majority of synod fathers, however, protested that, not only was the door not open, there wasn’t even a door.
It is perfectly possible that the good cardinal is, in a rather political way, spinning a document which has not yet been released, with a view to influencing how it will be received. It should be noted that, while he was very forthcoming about what he thought the exhortation would say, he did not actually say he had read it.
[…]
And…
[…]
Pope Francis’s ecclesiology of a dynamic, diverse, personal Church, is radically at odds with Kasper’s flat, essentially German, understanding of a parish. According to the cardinal’s vision, the function of the parish is not missionary but distributive, people come to get Communion (and pay their Church tax, of course). To receive Communion is to be in the parish, and vice-versa.
In the Kasper model, the parish is reduced to a sort of sacramental McDonald’s, where everyone drives through, gets the same order, and leaves again; there is no distinction between people’s situations, no expectation of a change in their lives, no real concern for them beyond “are the getting what everyone else is getting?” rather than are they getting what they need?
This is the reason I don’t think the apostolic exhortation will incorporate the Kasper proposal. Francis wants a dynamic, messy Church of individuals helping each other on the way to faith, where our problems are the unique way God speaks to each of us and brings us to know Him better. Cardinal Kasper wants a whitewashed Church where everyone sits in neat rows.
[…]
From Live Action News:
Obama nominee Garland sided against Priests for Life in contraception mandate case
As Americans attempt to discern the views of Judge Merrick Garland, President Barack Obama’s nominee to replace Justice Antonin Scalia on the Supreme Court, the Washington Post’s Julie Zauzmer has identified a past case in which he sided against Priests for Life.
In May, the DC Circuit Court of Appeals voted 6-3 to deny the group an en banc hearing by the whole court in its case against the Obama Administration’s contraception mandate, which had the result of preserving an earlier ruling in favor of the mandate.
Jay Wexler of Boston University attempted to downplay Garland’s vote with the majority as a procedural move “which doesn’t say much of anything about his views on the case,” though he did acknowledge it meant Garland “didn’t think the panel opinion denying the Priests’ religious freedom claim was clearly wrong.”
In addition, Planned Parenthood President and CEO Cecile Richards was seen entering the White House West Wing minutes after Obama’s announcement of the nomination concluded, which has been interpreted as a sign that Obama wished to reassure Richards of Garland’s commitment to upholding a right to abortion.
As Live Action News covered Wednesday, Garland has not explicitly discussed or or directly ruled on abortion, but was a former clerk for Justice William Brennan, who voted in favor of Roe v. Wade, and has praised Justice Harry Blackmun, the author of Roe’s majority opinion.
In other news, big-business abortion-for-profit seems pleased with the appointment…
Planned Parenthood CEO Applauds Obama’s Supreme Court Nominee
After President Barack Obama nominated Judge Merrick Garland to the U.S. Supreme Court Wednesday, Planned Parenthood President and CEO Cecile Richards applauded the president’s choice and urged the Senate to approve him.
“Judge Garland is an intelligent, highly accomplished judge who has secured bipartisan support in his previous appointments,” Richards said in a statement. “Now that the President has upheld his constitutional duty, it is time for the Senate to uphold theirs. The American people deserve a full court and a justice appointed by the President they elected for four years — not three. It is time for the Senate to do their job and give Judge Garland a fair hearing and up or down vote.”
[…]
Leaving aside considerations of his bad ruling in DC about the 2nd Amendment, if big-business abortion-for-profit Richards wants him approved, …
From a reader…
What color veil is the Cross covered with on Good Friday for the Adoration of the Holy Cross? Rather, is there any place in or outside the Missale Romanum that would indicate any color other than violet?
I respect our good Pastor’s authority, naturally. I am sorry for adding to his stress level approaching Holy Week, but I opened my unfortunate mouth and asked why we don’t use violet. Being merely a lay person I defer to him, and was hoping to learn. However, my question was not received well and went unanswered. I understand this is a rather silly question about “nitty gritty details,” but I honestly was curious.
The Roman Missal – for the Ordinary Form, the Novus Ordo – has a specific indication about the color of the cloth covering the Cross on Good Friday in rubric 15:
“The Deacon accompanied by ministers, or another suitable minister, goes to the sacristy, from which, in procession, accompanied by two ministers with lighted candles, he carries the Cross, covered with a violet veil [velo violaceo obtectam], through the church to the middle of the sanctuary.”
In the traditional, Extraordinary Form, violet prescribed for Good Friday.
In recent years, for Good Friday in St. Peter’s celebrated by the Pope, we have seen a red veil. It strikes me that this is a custom of papal liturgy. For example, red vestments are used for the Requiem of a Pope rather than black or violet/purple.
That said, the fact remains that the Missal says violet, not some other color.
From a reader…
Father, my youngest son, who is less than a year old, is frequently unruly at Mass and throws very loud and lengthy tantrums, often over small things. I (or my wife) sometimes have to stay outside for very long periods of time until he calms down. Nevertheless, we continue to pray silently as best as we can and offer our prayers and trials in union with the Mass. My question is: is there a certain point where being outside too long, or being away from the church, causes us to fail to fulfill our Sunday obligation?
I always tread carefully when any question comes up about noisy kids at Mass. It is like the proverbial “third rail”.
That said, speaking for myself, thank you from the bottom of my beady-black heart for taking Junior out. I believe that many people are honest when they say that they don’t mind some crying infants or fussing kids or even melt-down tantrums. I believe also that many people do mind these thing when they are extended no matter what they say.
So… you take Junior out. Good move.
In my opinion you are still morally present in the rites on the other side of the door. You are in heart and mind certainly still united with the action inside. You are most likely trying to guess at which point it is in the Mass. You desire to be within but for the sake of charity and practicality, you had to go out.
There are various reasons why someone might suddenly have to leave a Mass. You can, I am sure, think of a few.
Also, yes, our obligation to participate at Mass is a serious obligation. However, God does not require the impossible from us and neither does Holy Church.
If you are impeded in some way, for a good reason, from participating on a day of obligation, you are, so to speak, “dispensed” from the obligation. If there is a blizzard and it is too dangerous to go, you don’t have to fulfill the obligation. If you are sick… if there is a forest fire to fight… if you have no idea where to go to Mass when you are traveling… your obligation is relaxed. We are reasonable. If you are taking care of your child who is melting down, you are doing what you need to do.
I also remind everyone here that going to Communion at any Mass is not obligatory, even if you are in the state of grace. You are not forced to go. You are not obliged to go. If you aren’t sure about going because you only managed to be in the church for 5 minutes of the 45 minute Mass while Junior was out of control, you don’t have to go. It seems to me that if you are checking in with what is going on in church and you are doing your best to participate, you can probably go to Communion. But you don’t have to.
Also, if your child is having these melt-downs only in church, you might speak to the parish priest. Use some sacramentals judiciously.
Good luck with that child. And to all who have young children… I admire you. Parents of small children often have to deal with things that would make most priests curl up in a ball in the dark and bar the door.
From a reader…
I would like to know why many parishes do not offer the Sacrament of Penance on Holy Saturday? There’s only 1 parish in my area that hears confessions on Holy Saturday and I often wonder is there a law forbidding the Sacrament of Penance on Holy Saturday?
In answer to “why”, I have no idea. It’ll depend on the parish priest.
In answer to “is there a law against hearing confessions”. NO!
Each year one sees confusion about the Sacrament of Penance during the Triduum. Confusion is rarer now than before because there have been official explanations and also changes to the wording in the Roman Missal. But, the less than informed and some liberals who don’t care to keep up to date, cling to their past errors.
Some priests, liturgical experts, and even diocesan liturgy offices wrongly claim – or claimed – that the rubrics of the Missal (or in the old, obsolete editions in English, “Sacramentary”) forbade the sacrament of Penance.
However, this claim was and is incorrect.
Here is what the texts really say.
The previous, obsolete 1970 and 1975 editions of the Missale Romanum (the Novus Ordo) said of Good Friday and Holy Saturday (BTW… the language of this rubric goes back to Pope Innocent III +1216):
Hac et sequenti die, Ecclesia, ex antiquissima traditione, sacramenta penitus non celebrat… On this and the following day, the Church, from a most ancient tradition, does not at all celebrate the sacraments.
However, since this is in the Missal (the book for MASS), sacramenta refers only to the Eucharist, Holy Mass, and not to the other sacraments.
The Congregation for Divine Worship and Discipline of the Sacraments (CDWDS) clarified this in its official publication Notitiae (1977 – no. 137 (Dec) p. 602).
In the 2002 edition of the Missale Romanum at paragraph 1 for Good Friday all doubt is removed.
The above cited text has been amended to say (the change with my emphasis):
Hac et sequenti die, Ecclesia, ex antiquissima traditione, sacramenta, praeter Paenitentiae et Infirmorum Unctionis, penitus non celebrat…
On this and the following day, the Church, from a most ancient tradition, does not at all celebrate the sacraments, except for (the sacraments of) Penance and Anointing of the Sick.
Priests can indeed, and probably should, hear confessions on Good Friday and on Holy Saturday.
Who can forget the image of the late Pope – Saint – hearing confessions in St. Peter’s Basilica on Good Friday? Who can forget Pope Benedict? Pope Francis? Francis even made his own confession on Good Friday!
So, it is absolutely FALSE that it is forbidden to hear confessions during the Triduum.
That said, there may be other reasons why the priest has decided not to hear confessions. It may be, for example, that he has been hearing confessions every day during Lent before Masses.
PEOPLE: Go to confession. Don’t wait until the last minute. In my 20 Tips I recommend that people go to confession at the time confessions are scheduled to begin, not a few minutes before they are to end. Why? So you don’t lose your chance to go. Similarly, go to confession now, before the Triduum.
Here is a bonus tip, speaking of confessions.
As I have posted before, it is both permitted and appropriate in many instances for confessions to be heard during Holy Mass on other days of the year!
Want proof? Try the CDWDS document Redemptionis Sacramentum 76 and also the Congregation’s Response to a Dubium in Notitiae 37 (2001) pp. 259-260.
Having a priest in a confessional before and even during Mass on Sundays and feasts could be a way to revive the use of this ailing but essential sacrament.
GO TO CONFESSION!
The Latin word loríca (note the accent… lo-REE-ka) means “a leather cuirass; a defense of any kind; a breastwork, parapet”. In effect, it means “armor”. It has come to be associated with a prayer attributed to St. Patrick (+ 5th c.) .
“Loríca” is also association with an rhythmic invocation or prayer especially for protection as when going into battle.
The Loríca of St. Patrick is rooted in an unconfused belief in the supernatural dimension of our lives, that there is a spiritual battle being waged for our souls, and in our absolute dependence on the One Three-Personed God.
One could pray this prayer each and every morning.
In one source, we read that Patrick composed it on Easter Saturday in 433 while traveling with some clerics to Tara, to shield them from the plots of druids (equivalent to ancient Democrats and Fishwrap readers and most liberals in general) and assassins. Perpend: “Tunc vir sanctus composuit illum Hymnum patrio idiomate conscriptum, qui vulgo Feth-fiadha, et ab aliis lorica Patricii appellatur, et in summo abinde inter Hibernos habetur praetio; quia creditur, et multa experientia probatur, pie recitantes ab imminentibus animae, et corpore preservare periculis.”
In the recording, below, I read the prayer as adapted in a common English format.
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And now a more ancient version in Latin, that will not correspond perfectly to English versions you have heard.
For you students of Latin, the preposition ad can mean many things, including “next to” or “in the presence of”. Temoria is the seat of the high kings where Patrick preached. The hill of Temoria is, if I am not mistaken, Tara.
Sancti Patricii Hymnus ad Temoriam.
Ad Temoriam hodie potentiam praepollentem invoco Trinitatis,
Credo in Trinitatem sub unitate numinis elementorum.
Apud Temoriam hodie virtutem nativitatis Christi cum ea ejus baptismi,
Virtutem crucifixionis cum ea ejus sepulturae,
Virtutem resurrectionis cum ea ascensionis,
Virtutem adventus ad judicium aeternum.
Apud Temoriam hodie virtutem amoris Seraphim in obsequio angelorum,
In spe resurrectionis ad adipiscendum praemium.
In orationibus nobilium Patrum,
In praedictionibus prophetarum,
In praedicationibus apostolorum,
In fide confessorum,
In castitate sanctarum virginum,
In actis justorum virorum.
Apud Temoriam hodie potentiam coeli,
Lucem solis,
Candorem nivis,
Vim ignis,
Rapiditatem fulguris,
Velocitatem venti,
Profunditatem maris,
Stabilitatem terrae,
Duritiam petrarum.
Ad Temoriam hodie potentia Dei me dirigat,
Potestas Dei me conservet,
Sapientia Dei me edoceat,
Oculus Dei mihi provideat,
Auris Dei me exaudiat,
Verbum Dei me disertum faciat,
Manus Dei me protegat,
Via Dei mihi patefiat,
Scutum Dei me protegat,
Exercitus Dei me defendat,
Contra insidias daemonum,
Contra illecebras vitiorum,
Contra inclinationes animi,
Contra omnem hominem qui meditetur injuriam mihi,
Procul et prope,
Cum paucis et cum multis.
Posui circa me sane omnes potentias has
Contra omnem potentiam hostilem saevam
Excogitatam meo corpori et meae animae;
Contra incantamenta pseudo-vatum,
Contra nigras leges gentilitatis,
Contra pseudo-leges haereseos,
Contra dolum idololatriae,
Contra incantamenta mulierum,
Et fabrorum ferrariorum et druidum,
Contra omnem scientiam quae occaecat animum hominis.
Christus me protegat hodie
Contra venenum,
Contra combustionem,
Contra demersionem,
Contra vulnera,
Donec meritus essem multum praemii.
Christus mecum,
Christus ante me,
Christus me pone,
Christus in me,
Christus infra me,
Christus supra me,
Christus ad dextram meam,
Christus ad laevam meam,
Christus hine,
Christus illine,
Christus a tergo.
Christus in corde omnis hominis quem alloquar,
Christus in ore cujusvis qui me alloquatur,
Christus in omni oculo qui me videat,
Christus in omni aure quae me audiat.
Ad Temoriam hodie potentiam praepollentem invoco Trinitatis.
Credo in Trinitatem sub Unitate numinis elementorum.
Domini est salus,
Domini est salus,
Christi est salus,
Salus tua, Domine, sit semper nobiscum.
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