I note that the Vatican curial calendar is back on track several days after the end of the “ora legale”. Good work guys. The sun rose at 06:37 (if the calendar is to be believed), 7 minutes after I did. It will set at 17:10 well before I go to sleep.
The Ave Maria ought to ring at 17:30. This is the 303rd day of the year. Being a dies non, I said a Votive Mass of the Holy Angels today. I’ve been working my way through Mass intentions sent by readers. However, Sunday was for all my benefactors and yesterday was for my parents. I read in the older Roman Martyrology that today is the feast of Hyacinthus, Quinctus, Felician and Lucius. Not a clue. To get at them, I suppose we have to have recourse to the unwieldly but replete Acta Sanctorum.
Still no clue. Looking more… bingo.
It’s remarkable what you can find. Someone did a lot of work to put this online.
Last night at the Campo de’ Fiori The Great Roman™ and I witnessed a protest against how the tourist industry of the restaurants and night spots is disturbing the quarter and making life unpleasant for the locals. I must say that I’ve been better protests. The fact is that the restaurants and bars on the Campo do go on until 2:30 and it gets noisy. And there are not supposed to be musicians (if you can call them that), but the police who are always present do nothing about them.
Some people dressed as “ghosts” came by to help. I’m not sure that they made a big impression. One woman – in the spirit of the thing – stood in front of a restaurant… a good place but which has pushed its tables waaaay out into the piazza… blowing a whistle until she tuckered out. The best moment was when a young man from one of the restaurants came by and said with colorful Romanesco expressions which I mustn’t write here about how those lovely people could resolve their problem by selling their lovely places and moving. The Great Roman™ and I were reduced to giggles for while at the colorful Romanaccio. There is something special about the Roman way of turning a phrase.
Thanks to KA for the cigars. He was missed.
The alstroemeria has not been the very best, so I’ve opted for roses, which Moses still knowses.
The Campo this morning without ghosts. I was on my way home from the fishmonger.
In churchy news, I’ve been getting reactions to the new Jubilee mascot “Luce” (aka …?). Those with whom I have shared it have not yet had anything good to say. One person who is a well-known radio commentator in the upper midwest wrote to me with a link saying: “WTH is this?”
However, I’ve noticed something on TwitterX. I searched “mascot jubilee” and came up with tweets about beeple and cyber trading and chains and hot meme tokens and value and market cap. Does someone out there understand what this is? My spidey sense suggests to me that it has something to do with the anime influence on the image… not to mention Cthulhu (as a commentator pointed out).
Something about the final document of the walking together about walking togetherity: HERE at the National Catholic Register (not to be confused with the Fishwrap)
In chessy news…. HERE
The sun rose today at 7:35 on the Vatican curial calendar but the hour is now different since daylight savings ended at 03:00 here in the Central European Time zone: hence 6:37 (the calendar is off a couple minutes according to more accurate online clocks). Sunset is at 18:13 on the Vatican calendar, hence: 17:35 (or really 17:10).
While the sunset tonight will be at Rome’s 18:17, the sun rose behind rain clouds at 07:31. And I do mean rain.
Fr. John Zuhlsdorf on VINTAGE RECTORY BATHROOM TILES: 05: “I’m glad that the phone is getting so much attention!”
