Have you PRAYED for a good outcome? The best possible outcome that will benefit the nation spiritually and materially (if that is what God wills)?
Have you also prayed to ask the Holy Angels to prevent interference from the fallen angels when it comes to anything electronic used in the election results? Demons are really good with electronic things.
So,… have you PRAYED?
Now’s the time.
I didn’t see it take place, but assuredly the sun rose on Rome at 6:46. It will set at 17:01.
The Vatican calendar is again screwed up. My records show that the Ave Maria was to change from its 17:30 cycle – 22 Oct – 4 Nov) yesterday to its 17:15 cycle (4-20 Nov). What to do? What to do about a bell that ought to ring, but never does… except at Ss Trinità – aka The Parish™?
Thank you for this day, O Lord.
If you are paying attention also to the auxiliary calendar in the back of the Traditional Missal, in the section for propers “in some places… aliquibus locis” there is a Mass today for the Feast of All Relics. It is certainly relic seasons, given the proximity to All Saints and All Souls and the theme of November being the Four Last Things.
Relics be the instruments of miracles, physical and spiritual. They are sacred. Poor care of a reliquary with a relic in it is sacrilege. Relics must not be sold. That’s a serious sin.
I am mindful today and grateful for the apostolate of my good friend Fr. Carlos Martins, whose Treasures of the Church has brought countless thousands of people into contact with holy relics, resulting in conversions and healings. At present he is taking a major relic of St. Jude the Apostle to different parishes in the United States, a real labor of love.
At The Parish™ we had a solemn displaying of the relics preserved there. I made a video. It’s a lovely event. In a way it is like looking at our Family Album together, for they are already in the family of Heaven and they are waiting for us.
All the parishes used to do in Rome once upon a time. No one does it anymore. I thought it was unique in Rome other than in Lent when in St. Peter’s many relics are exposed and the Veil of Veronica is displayed. However, I found some music written for Ostentatio Reliquiarum by one Cardinal Albrect Brandenburg. So, it was done elsewhere. Makes sense.
Speaking of family, yesterday at The Parish™ we had a Solemn Requiem for the 30th day from the burial of our friend and confrere in the Archconfraternity, Gian Carlo Ciccia. After the Mass we sand Vespers… and Matins… and Lauds…. it was really long. The music for the Mass was splendid, the Requiem for 6 voices by Tomás Luis de Victoria (+1611). There were also instruments.
Nice people! Great service!
Friends, taking this is was like being transported back to the early 17th century to see precisely what they would have done. The Guardiani of the Archconfraternity were in their habits and in the sanctuary, where they received Communion. The music was period and appropriate for the ritual and architecture. Victoria also spent time as a musician in Rome, so it was a Roman venture. Would you like to participate in a bit of it? Perhaps the Requiem?
The repetition of the ritual, so long used, so finely tuned and thought through by our forebears is a sacred action, an act of Religion, which brings great solace. The traditional Requiem Mass might be ornamented with more or less magnificent vestments, in a more or less magnificent setting, for a more or less famous person, rich or poor, powerful or small. We come into the world the same way and we go forth as well. All alike, we go before our Creator, the Just Judge, the King of Fearful Majesty. The older form of the Requiem doesn’t have lots of options, as the Novus Ordo does. The Novus Ordo, full of options, aims at being adapted, tailored, to make it express what we want to express. The Vetus Ordo reflects what Holy Church – the greatest expert on humanity there has ever been or will be – know what we really need, what it best for us, in particular for the person who is deceased: prayers for the person’s soul, relief from Purgatory, swift access to Heaven. That is the point of a Requiem: the deceased. The deceased is the point, but we are not excluded. We know that, with the older Rite, in our own time we will be prayed for in this most power and efficacious way. We know that we will receive what the Church knows what is best for us in that state: prayers, penances, indulgences.
It’s a matter of priorities.
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Eccles posted the WINNERS of the 2024 World Cup of Synod Jargon. HERE
GOLD MEDAL for “forgiveness in the name of all the baptised for the sins against synodality”
SILVER for “the principle of circularity that animated the whole synodal process” https://t.co/tw0Di0aBtg— Eccles (@BruvverEccles) November 5, 2024
There were a great many “worthy” options for votes. Hard work. BUT… the voters walked together to a conclusion of this World Cup.
Meanwhile, …
The Catholic diocese of Yibin has organized a tour of patriotic shrines, “to express gratitude to the [Communist] Party.” https://t.co/dTiXGkE8D4
— Father V (@father_rmv) November 4, 2024
I wonder what the Holy See gets from the China deal that hasn’t been disclosed.
Also, because the Indonesian bishop declined to be made a Cardinal, Archbishop Battaglia of Naples has been chosen. Why he wasn’t chosen in the first place is a little baffling… it’s NAPLES after all, and not the one in Florida. The new Cardinal-elect has a reputation of being quite anti-mafia. Meanwhile, the Archbishop of Los Angeles is not a Cardinal. And I am not a Monsignor. Heck, I’m 65 now! There should be a world-wide movement.
The monks of Le Barroux in S. France make excellent wine. Help them and you help yourselves!
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Continued from THESE.
Let’s remember all who are ill, who will die soon, who have died recently, who have lost their jobs, who are afraid.
I get many requests by email asking for prayers. Some are heart-achingly grave and urgent.
As long as my blog reaches so many readers in so many places, let’s give each other a hand. We should support each other in works of mercy.
If you have some prayer requests, feel free to post them below.
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In your kindness continue prayers for my mother, who has been diagnosed with something grave and incurable.
Pray for me, for my circumstances and wisdom in my decisions.
Also, I received this note:
I also humbly ask for your prayers for [our 8 year old son] Patrick. He has a lesion on his brain and is at the Children’s Hospital.
Patrick loves all things military and firefighters. For All Hallow’s Eve he wanted to be God’s GI Joe: Chaplain Emil Kapaun. This was his second time to learn about and dress up as Fr. Kapaun.We are asking you to join us in asking Servant of God Chaplain Emil Kapaun to walk this journey of unknowns with Patrick and if it be in God’s Holy Will to heal Patrick, we ask this through the intercession of Fr. Kapaun. I cannot link the website with the novena to Fr. Kapaun, but there is one on his website.
Thank you.
We appreciate all prayers for Patrick and our family.
All for Jesus, Amen!
The website of Fr. Emil Kapuan – HERE
Please stop and pray here and now for this little boy.
For Your glory and praise, Almighty and merciful God, and to increase faith in You and Your Church, through the intercession of Servant of God Emil Kapaun, I beseech You, that You grant a sudden, complete and lasting miraculous healing for little Patrick, suffering from a lesion on his brain and for whatever other ailment by which he may be affected. I ask this in the Most Holy Name of Jesus Christ, Your Son, who lives and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit, ever one God, world without end. Amen.
When the sun rose at 6:43 , I was already up. I will still be up at 17:04 when it sets.
Today the Ave Maria would ring at 17:30. IT RANG AT THE PARISH PRECISELY AT 17:30!
It is the 4th Sunday remaining after Epiphany resumed to fill the gap of Sundays at the end of the liturgical year.
Lord, thank you for this Sunday.
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For centuries the Archconfraternity of Ss.ma Trinità dei Pellegrini e Convalescenti, founded by St. Philip Neri, on the first Sunday of the month conducted full Forty Hours Devotion. As the Archconfraternity is being renewed, the members on 1st Sundays have begun spending an hour of Adoration before the Blessed Sacrament exposed, using prayers from Forty Hours. Brick by brick. Today was also a day when food and money was collected to feed the poor.
You can see some of them in red habits. It is also a treat to hear the extremely rare little 17th century portative organ which was discovered in a cubbyhole and lovingly restored.
Also, this occurred in first 8 days of November, and so the church is arranged for prayers for the Poor Souls, which includes absolution of the catafalque and Masses for the Dead.
From lunch on All Saints with The Great Roman™. (He had to finish it). Rigatoni and sauce of coda alla vaccinara.
Like these photos? Thank DM for the new phone and better camera.
An Italian Army band was getting ready for something this morning. Piazza Farnese on my way to The Parish’s™ Solemn Mass.
Before Mass.
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After Mass in the evening, following Vespers.
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(White to move and mate in 4)
Churchy….
Let us continue to pray for his safety and release. He offered himself in place of two seminarians who were about to be kidnapped, during evening prayers. Such great love from Fr. Thomas. https://t.co/SOBpsF2qWN
— Fr. Edmond Nyoka (@ednyoka) November 2, 2024
At the end, I rant.
The Collect for the 31st Ordinary Sunday, which was in the ancient Veronese Sacramentary, is also found in the Extraordinary Form on the 12th Sunday after Pentecost.
Omnipotens et misericors Deus, de cuius munere venit, ut tibi a fidelibus tuis digne et laudabiliter serviatur, tribue, quaesumus, nobis, ut ad promissiones tuas sine offensione curramus.
Servio, “to serve”, is very rarely found in the passive. We must break “that it be served in reference to You” down into “that You be served”.
Offensio (related to offendo) concerns “a striking against, a stumbling”. It is also “an offense” and “that which causes one to offend or sin” as in a lapis offensionis (a “stumbling-block” cf 1 Pet. 2:8). Offendo, by the way, can also mean “to meet by chance”.
Munus means, first, “a service, office, post”. Synonyms are officium and ministerium.
These are the key words in dispute in the matter of Benedict XVI’s resignation.
Some say that Benedict wanted only to resign the active administration of the Diocese of Rome and of the universal Church, the ministerium, without resigning the munus, the office of Vicar of Christ. However, the terms ministerium and munus, what they mean in relation to each other, is really murky.
For a more clarity about munus we can go to our dictionaries. On the other hand, we must in any event go by how they are used in Church documents.
I was at one time pretty sure that munus and ministerium were specific and meant obviously different things. Then I read a paper written by a serious canonist about the problematic meanings of munus, ministerium and officium written back in 1989, long before 2013 and this controversy. It was written by (future) Cardinal Peter Erdõ, considered papabile now. Divine providence? (Cf. ERDÖ, “Ministerium, munus et officium in Codice iuris canonici”, in Periodica, 1989, pp. 411-436.) It’s in Latin.
Bottom line, between the uses of the three terms in the 1917 Code, Vatican II, and the 1983 Code, according to Erdõ, there is confusion. It is hard to fix definitions that don’t overlap to the point that they are sometimes interchangeable. More work is needed on the problem.
However, in this post we are dealing with a liturgical text, not a canonical text.
When we drill into munus, our thoughts turn right away to a Greek equivalent leitourgia, a needed civic work or service one performs because he ought to for the sake of society; whence our word “liturgy”.
In the New Testament munus/leitourgia points to concepts such as taking up collections for the poor (i.e., what man does for man) and religious services (what man does for God).
Munus also means “a present, gift”.
Moreover, munus is a theologically loaded word, indicating among other things the three offices (tria munera) which Christ passed to His Church, the Apostles and their successors: to teach, to govern, to sanctify. Prophet – King – Priest.
When the Lord gives us commands (and He does, e.g., love one another as I have loved you; pick up your Cross and follow me; be perfect as your Father in heaven is perfect; do this in memory of me, etc.), we can sum them up in the two-fold commandment of love of God and of neighbor.
All followers of Jesus have been given a two-fold munus to fulfill which reflects the three munera Christ gave to the Church’s ordained priesthood.
I invite you to try an experiment. See what happens to your perception of the Collect if you make munus mean “office” rather than “gift.”
While reading it, hearing it, can you keep both concepts simultaneously in mind?
LITERAL TRANSLATION:
Almighty and merciful God, from whose gift it comes that You be served by the faithful worthily and laudably, grant us, we beseech You, that we may run toward Your promises without stumbling.
This Collect gives me the image of a person hurrying to fulfill a duty or command given by his master or superior. He is rushing, running. He might even be carrying a heavy burden. While dashing forward, he strives to be careful under his burden lest he stumble, fall, lose or ruin what he carries.
Isn’t this how we live our Christian vocations?
God has given us something to do while in this vale of tears.
When we discern God’s will and do our best to live well according to our state in life, we will experience heavy burdens. Our human nature is wounded and there is an Enemy who hates and tempts us. When we are faithful to our vocations, we receive many opportunities to participate in carrying the Cross of Jesus. We also are offered all the actual graces we need to do so.
The Lord Himself told us, through the Gospels, that if we want to be with Him, we must participate in His Cross, even daily (Luke 9:23). During His Passion, our Lord literally carried His (and our) Cross. As He was driven by the soldiers over the uneven road, as careful as He must have been, He stumbled and fell.
We stumble and fall, though not like our sinless Lord. We stumble mostly by choice.
In this Collect do we hear an echo of the petition in the Lord’s Prayer? “Lead us not into temptation.”
There is a diabolical Enemy Tempter who desires us to fall and to give offense to the Lord. The Enemy places obstacles before our feet.
That one – the Enemy – we do not want to meet with, even by chance. Or by intention! Avoid avoid AVOID all things having to do with the occult or idols of false religions. They are gateways for the Enemy to get at you. In addition, regularly make use of sacramentals and go to confession often. Along with those, make good holy Communions and the Devil will have little to say to you.
It is inconceivable that God would give us something to do and then not give us the means to achieve it.
As we draw closer to the end of this liturgical year, during this Sunday’s Mass Father prays that we run, rather than drag along, toward the reward of heaven. We beg God that we do so without mishap. We beg not to give offense by what we do. We ask that the road be made free of stumbling blocks for our running feet.
Run! Watch for those stumbling blocks but run!
Don’t drag along, moping, resentful of your lot. Our reward is not here in this vale of tears. Heaven is our goal.
Help your struggling neighbor.
Our Lord understands the craggy road we travel. He never abandons us, even when we stumble in sin.
CURRENT ICEL (2011):
Almighty and merciful God, by whose gift your faithful offer you right and praiseworthy service, grant, we pray, that we may hasten without stumbling to receive the things you have promised.
As a final note. I have studied and written about the prayers for the Novus Ordo and Vetus Ordo Sunday formularies for many years, beginning in the 1990’s. Over time I’ve noted how the Novus Ordo prayers tend to stress the eschatological joy of Heaven. If the orations were taken from the Vetus Ordo or old sources, they were often edited to eliminate references to guilt, sin, propitiation, etc.; “negative” things.
Some will claim that the Vetus Ordo prayers dwell on those “negative” elements too much without pointing towards the joy of Heaven. I disagree.
There is nothing wrong in itself with stressing the “positive”, the attainment of Heavenly joy in our prayers for Mass.
However, in the Traditional Latin Mass our prayers also stress how to attain Heaven. That’s something that the Novus Ordo version do not do all that well. We have to deal with sin, with guilt. We have to consider Christ’s propitiation. We must highlight the Sacrifice even while we recognize and long for the Banquet.
Above, I wrote that God would not give us something to do (i.e., live in such a way that we can have the joy of Heaven) without giving us also the means to attain it (i.e., graces, a Savior who made a propitiatory Sacrifice). Similarly, Holy Church holds out for us the goal of Heaven in our prayers. Similarly, Holy Church should also tell us how to get there. We absolutely must deal with our fallen nature, our personal sins. We need penance.
Hence I repeat my phrase, “We are our rites!”
How we pray, affects what we believe, which affects in turn how we pray and how we live, which again affects what we believe and therefore how we live and pray… it’s all constantly intertwined. Lex orandi et lex credendi et lex vivendi. Change the prayers and, over time, you change what we as Catholics believe and, as a consequence, how we live, privately and in the public square.
So, how is that going after the last 50 some years?
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 this traditional 4th Sunday remaining after Epiphany, or, in the Novus Ordo, the 31st Sunday of Ordinary Time?
Tell us about attendance especially for the Traditional Latin Mass.
Any local changes or (hopefully good) news?
A couple thoughts of my own: HERE A taste…
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Their situation in the storm was like to the end of the world. However, it was also like to the beginning of the world, when there were waters of chaos.
In Genesis God spoke a Word over the chaotic waters and order was the result. In Matthew’s account amidst the chaotic, boat-swamping waters of Galilee, the Word Incarnate Jesus speaks to the wind, rebuking it, to the sea, calming it. In this calming of winds and waters, Jesus revealed Himself to be God.
This episode also ties Christ to the figure in Ps 107, in which frightened people in a storm on the waters, probably also fisherman, cry to God for help. The Lord delivers them.
There’s more peril in this Sunday, but hidden behind the Collect, the first oration of the Mass which goes back to the time of Pope St. Gregory the Great (+604).
[…]
UPDATE:
Here’s a clip from a “premium content” video for some Roman Sojourn Donors. It’s nothing special, just part of my morning walk through the area to get some food stuffs for the day and to say hello to a few people as the day gets underway. And a splendid day it was in Rome.
Thank you, Lord, for this day, when the sun rose at 6:42 and when the sun will set at 17:05.
The Ave Maria has a couple more days in the 17:30 cycle.
Today is All Souls. It is not a feast. It is not a day of precept (obligation). However, you can gain indulgences for praying for the dead in this 8 day period.
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In church last night…
I’ll make a video of the formal displaying of the relics and post the link when it is ready.
In church this morning…
How to make lunch in Rome.
Buy pizza bianca.
Buy mortadella with black truffle.
Assemble like this.
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This beautiful depiction of a Requiem Mass is a cutting from a 15th-century French Book of Hours (eastern France, perhaps Besançon). While the schola sings the Gregorian chant, a mourner in a dark robe approaches the altar, where the priest presents the paten for him to kiss,… pic.twitter.com/lCkf8Ju1Uc
— Vir Desideriorum (@VirDesideriorum) November 2, 2024
This is interesting from the great canonist Ed Peters
Holy days of obligation occasion disregard for canon law in the VAST majority of Catholics, provoke anxious consciences in a small but notable number of others, and augment the devotion of the devout not a whit. Abrogate the obligation and restore holy days to their proper date.
— Edward Peters (@canonlaw) November 1, 2024
One of the presidential candidates is pretty openly anti-Catholic.
As Senator, Kamala Harris tried to stop the nominations of three judges because they were members of the Knights of Columbus. https://t.co/Mvb5yOMua3 pic.twitter.com/YbGFEY0YCF
— Catholic Arena (@CatholicArena) November 1, 2024
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Wise words we need to pay heed to today pic.twitter.com/T8oilyiEld
— Mark (@sitsio) November 1, 2024
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(White to move and mate in 3)
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While one of the corporal works of mercy is to bury the dead, one of the spiritual works of mercy is the pray for the dead.
November is dedicated in a special way to this important work, the first 8 days of the month in particular.
To encourage this good work, Holy Church – being a good Mother – prompts her children by enriching these days of 1-8 November with indulgences.
Indulgences are for the remittance of temporal punishment after death in Purgatory due to sins we commit in this life and for which we have not done adequate penance.
Indulgences are not for the forgiveness of those sins.
Digression….
Sins are, in the way Christ desired, ordinarily forgiven the Sacrament of Baptism, at first, and then through the Sacrament of Penance. In certain circumstances the Sacrament of Anointing can effect forgiveness of sins. There are extraordinary moments with acts of perfect contrition can result in forgiveness. However, Christ gave us a Sacrament precisely for this matter and that is what He intends for our ordinary circumstances. He gave it to us so that we would USE IT. So…
GO TO CONFESSION!
Going to confession is also what you need to do to gain indulgences.
For the November indulgences for praying for the dead, what do you need to do? After all, this is a good “work”. You have to do something.
Here are some bullet points.
To receive the plenary indulgence, the usual conditions must also be met:
The classic intentions of the Supreme Pontiffs have traditionally been (more about this HERE):
The curial calendar suggest that the sun rose at 06:41. 06:42 is more accurate. But, hey! The sun will set, according to the same, at 17:06.
The Ave Maria is at 17:30.
This is the Feast of All Saints, a Holy Day of Obligation and a (canonical) Solemnity. Hence, although it is Friday, today you are not obliged by the Latin Church’s law to fast or abstain.
I think I’ll make a cheeseburger. Alas, I can’t get really good pickles at any place nearby.
Apartment report: Yesterday I saw a different place, not quite as close to The Parish™ but not really all that far. A rather prestigious street, in view of a a place which is constantly guarded by police. I am optimistic. St. Joseph! Guide this with your benevolence, asking from God what is best.
Lord, for the day, I thank you. And on this Feast of All Saints, prompt with Your graces all those who read this to be saintly in their earthly lives so they can enjoy the joys of Heaven with the holy angels and our brothers and sisters in the Church Triumphant.
Yesterday I went to the clerical shops for errands. I had to go to Gammarelli to figure out that white pianeta situation. Then Barbiconi for clerical shirts for a stateside priest friend. I remembered that I need a red cincture to replace the one that is all used up.
Some fabrics. Meh.
Hi from the happy elephant.
Hi from a bored cat.
I saw this truck outside my place and thought it worthy of a share.
“Hands dirty from work give off the scent of dignity.”
I wasn’t able to track down the source of this quote in a short amount of time so I gave up. However, something similar is attributed to St. Francis of Assisi. It strikes me as a communist thing, although it is redolent – if you get me – of something that John Paul II would have written about the dignity of work in Laborem exercens. Remember John Paul II?
The other day I had a meeting with a woman who was the silver restorer for famous museum collections in London. She taught me something about cleaning gold and silver vessels. The first thing I already knew from my silver/goldsmith who made my chalice. Use only 99% isopropyl alcohol (or very high). She told me also to use acetone. Fingerprints are really bad for gold plating. So, get them off! There is also a special wax for polishing that will protect the gold and silver. She said to use also Renaissance Micro-Crystalline Wax Polish, a tiny amount on a silver cloth. US – HERE UK – HERE It was quite a useful conversation. So… FATHERS! Clean the gold cup of your chalice (when needed) with high purity alcohol! (Vodka won’t work.) In general, don’t let sacristans or kind ladies who volunteer anywhere NEAR your chalice.
Since I wrote about shirts…
HEY PRIESTS OUT THERE!
How about a clerical Guayabera shirt?
In chessy news…. HERE
(White mates in 4)
The weather here should be perfect for the rest of my stay. Thus say the forecasts.
On this 305th day of the calendar year and the 31st of my Roman Sojourn, the sun rose at 06:40. It will set at 17:07. Such short days, each shorter.
The Ave Maria ought to ring at 17:30 for a few more days before the cycle changes.
Thank you for this day, O Lord.
Apartment sleuthing news: I have consulted with the wonderful rather senior lady with the realty agency in the area. I have suspected a rat about the place I had been looking at. However, they found me another possibility that will work very well, though it won’t be as luminous. It will have a very quiet address, across from a place guarded by the police, with a small interior courtyard I can use freely. The rent is good. Ground floor. I had yesterday in a Holy Votive Mass of St. Joseph asked for help again. He is so powerful as an intercessor and he was my guy when, some time ago, I needed a place with urgency. I am hopeful. The next few days will tell. If it goes, I’ll let you know. The way I figure, even if I cannot spend a great deal of time here, it’ll still be less expensive in the long run than the way I am doing it now. Sure, my place now is really nice. But, damn.
Please say a prayer for this, perhaps quickly, to St. Joseph: Help Fr. Z with his apartment project.
Since it is Reformation Day, we might observe it by checking out a book about Martin Luther. It was written by someone just a couple decades after Luther, hence firmly within living memory. It was originally in French, vetted by the University of Paris, and then Latin. The title (with apologies to a priest friend and piper) is:
The Devil’s Bagpipe: The True Life of Martin Luther by James Lang (Author) and Fr. Robert Nixon (Translator)
It is a short read, but packed, as is consistent with writers before the age of word processors.
On 1 Nov, All Saints at The Parish™, there will be an exposition of the relics here. The World’s Best Sacristan this morning was doing some work on reliquaries of St. Erasmus, martyr and St. Agapitus, martyr.
Something is definitely afoot. Maybe this saint can help with my pied-à-terre?
Spotted last night at the Campo… at the bar restaurant “Eretico” next to the statue of the heretic Giordano Bruno.
They are also against spelling.
Something has to be done about the pedana at the vestment cases in the sacristy. It is getting really bad and one day it is going to hurt someone.
Last night I wanted chicken… so I made chicken.
Thank you to a reader who made it possible to get bottles of hot sauce from my amazon wish list before I came over. US – HERE I brought a couple. It was a nice addition to the chicken.
In churchy news… after the end of walking together about walking togetherity there is a 3 days of darkness … conference on walking together about walking togetherity. HERE
“From the Council to the Synod: Rereading a Church’s Journey, 60 Years on Since Lumen Gentium (1964–2024)” — was hosted by the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome from Oct. 28–30.
In chessy news…. HERE
(White to play and mate in 2)
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