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It’s hard to come up with words about that.
The Biel Chess Festival continues today in Switzerland with various tournaments. Meanwhile, the strangely named CrunchLabs Masters is on. It’s is the third leg of the 2024 Champions Chess Tour. Magnus MVL and “Puer” are in Division 1. Levon, Hikaru, Fabi and Nepo are also in. Of course I am glad to see that my guy Wesley So is in Division 1 because of his qualification from the chess.com Classic. Format is 10+2. Alas, on the live stream we are subjected to the cranium-etching voice of Tania Sachdev. Someone needs to give her some sort of filter for her mic to cut down on the upper end. Good commentary (when not just repeating what the person before said). Also commenting is Daniel Naroditsky.
Black to move and mate in 4.
1. Nd3+ Kd1 2. Nxf2+ Kc1 3. Nd3+ Kb1 4. Qf1#
NB: I’ll hold comments with solutions ’till the next day so there won’t be “spoilers” for others.
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I received a copy of a new book from Sophia Press.
One Lord, One Faith, One Church: An Inconvenient Truth by Jesse Romero and Paul Zucarelli
US HERE – UK HERE
The title trolls Al Gore!
The Introduction states that this book is written for people who have little if any, or even faulty, instruction in the faith. That’s a large target audience! They seek to show that the God initiated the Roman Catholic Church. The Church really is of divine origin… sorry!
I was struck that one of the first questions raised is “Who is Jesus?”
I am reminded of how my old pastor Msgr. Schuler, in view of the hideous St. Paul Seminary of the day and the feckless fruitless vocations efforts of the Archdiocese, made a speech to the local Serra club explaining that at the seminary and chancery they couldn’t answer three basic questions: “Who is Jesus? Who is the Church? Who is the priest?” They couldn’t easily get past the first one. So, how were they to foster vocations to the priesthood?
But I digress. That’s just to show how fundamental the question is.
Other questions are “Why is the Church in Rome?” and “Who is Peter?”
The rest of the book takes a mostly historical journey, well worth reviewing. Review… this is a good point. Even if you know this stuff already, it constitutes a good, dense, review.
This would be a good book for you friends or relatives (or YOU) who have fallen away from the Church into some Protestant sect.
There is nothing in it about the Novus and/or Vetus Ordo. There is very little about liturgy at all, expect for one significant phrase: “To understand the enormity of the Catholic Mass, one must understand that the heavenly liturgy and the earthly liturgy are one and the same.”
You wouldn’t know that from attended most suburban churches, although was you encounter would still affirm the Four Last Things, only differently.
UPDATE:
Many thanks to people who have already sent donations for my stay in Rome in October and into November. I haven’t started the main effort yet, but these thoughtful readers have already chipped in via “wavy flag” and Zelle. Thank you.
VF, JL, MR, DVDH, DC, LG, MMcM, MH, SB, PG, HL, MM, SAS
