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It began with optimism. It devolved into irritation.

The sun rose in Rome at 7:05 and WILL SET at 18:53. The Ave Maria bell should ring at 19:15. but it won’t.

There was hardly anyone entering JFK. Some people were waiting in the Sky Priority line. Soon I knew why. 2 agents- one on the phone for some 20 minutes with a single customer, the other like molasses in winter. After each person she walked away for a little while. Then we found pre-check had closed 45 minutes before the scheduled time. The subcontactors controlling access to priority passengers were not letting people in until a Delta Rep came by.

Half a mile of hurried concourse later….

I managed to get a decent bowl of soup in the lounge before schlepping to the gate.

UPDATE

pThe aisle setup is weird. They are sort of staggered.

33 is across from 32.

Also since I added my Italian SIM this app is trying to correct everything I write In English. This could become annoying – fighting hostile spell check in two languages.

UPDATE:

On the way in.  Iconic.

Home sweet home… until I find home sweeter home.  Please PRAY.

Another entrance.  To the parish.

You can see the death announcement of Giancarlo.   They buried him today.   I missed that too.

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The weather here has not been all that congenial for photos and we haven’t been to anything exotic and post worthy.   The only thing I can think to offer are samplings of the terrific Chinese food we (a group) ate on successive nights.   NB: Where I live, there is no good Chinese.   Therefore, I am happy to take advantage of the opportunity while it lasts.

Yeah, a lot of food was had.   It was all terrific.

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HEY v.********@stonyhurst.ac.uk! My thank you note was kicked back. New email?

In churchy, sort of, news…

I like that Pres. Trump posted the St. Michael Prayer yesterday on Truth.

My friend Robert Royal talks with George Weigel about a new round of “walking together about walking togetherity”.

In chessy news… HERE

Please support the wonderful Benedictine monks of Norcia, who make great beer. I wish we had had their beer available for the Chinese food! That would have been a great match.

Also, the monks of Le Barroux now have available champagne and there is FREE SHIPPING until midnight tonight. Just go look at what they have available. You’ll help them and get good wines. Win win. FATHERZ10 for 10% off.

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 Feast of the Dedication of St. Michael, or the 26th Sunday of Ordinary Time?

Tell us about attendance especially for the Traditional Latin Mass.

Any local changes or (hopefully good) news?

A couple thoughts about the sign of the cross: HERE  A taste…

The Enemy is vast, cunning and relentless.  How vast?  Some have posited that an angel was assigned to everything that moved, which would make some sense out of ancient peoples watching the movements of the planets, etc., for insight.  However, with great telescopes we now see far beyond planets into the far beyond beyond the beyonds.  There are a lot of moving things out there.  That’s macro.  There’s also micro.  With great microscopes and colliders, we see subatomic particles of which atoms are composed.

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In Rome the sun rose at 7:02 and set at 16:58. The Ave Maria Bell should have sounded at 19:15.

I am not yet in Rome but rather in Brooklyn hanging out with friends.

The flight into LGA was 30 minutes early, which is remarkable considering the crazy weather in the Eastern USA.

I have a couple days here, so this is Rome MINUS 2.

It is hard to believe that this is LGA…

Quiz…. which beer is mine…

In churchy news… we’ve learned that there is to be an Apostolic Visitation of the FSSP. The last one was 10 years ago. So… every 10 years whether it’s needed or not? HERE

I’m trying not to read too much into it.

Communiqué of the Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter
Fribourg, September 26, 2024

The Priestly Fraternity of Saint Peter (FSSP) has recently been informed by the Dicastery for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life of the opening of an apostolic visitation of the Fraternity. As the Prefect of this Dicastery himself made clear to the Superior General and his assistants during a meeting in Rome, this visit does not originate in any problems of the Fraternity, but is intended to enable the Dicastery to know who we are, how we are doing and how we live, so as to provide us with any help we may need.

The last ordinary apostolic visit of the Fraternity was undertaken in 2014 by the Ecclesia Dei Commission. As the Dicastery for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life has been in charge of the FSSP and other former Eccelsia Dei institutes for the past three years, it now the competency of this Dicastery to look after the FSSP.

In chessy news … HERE

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St. Michael the Archangel Novena – Day 9

In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.

Amen.

St. Michael the Archangel, we honor you as a powerful protector of the Church and guardian of our souls. Inspire us with your humility, courage and strength that we may reject sin and perfect our love for our Heavenly Father.

In your strength and humility, slay the evil and pride in our hearts so that nothing will keep us from God.

St. Michael the Archangel, pray that we may be protected from the snares of the devil, that we may avoid all occasions of sin.

St. Michael the Archangel, you are the prince of angels but in your humility you recognized that God is God and you are but His servant. Unlike Satan, you were not overcome with pride but were steadfast in humility. Pray that we will have this same humility.

It is in the spirit of that humility that we ask for your intercession for our petitions…

(state your petitions)

“Saint Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle, be our protection against the wickedness and snares of the devil. May God rebuke him, we humbly pray; and do thou, O Prince of the Heavenly host, by the power of God, cast into hell Satan and all the evil spirits who prowl about the world seeking the ruin of souls.”

Sancte Michael Archangele, defende nos in proelio, contra nequitiam et insidias diaboli esto praesidium. Imperet illi Deus, supplices deprecamur: tuque, Princeps militiae caelestis, Satanam aliosque spiritus malignos, qui ad perditionem animarum pervagantur in mundo, divina virtute, in infernum detrude. Amen.

Amen.

In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.

Amen.

Waking Giacarlo in the sala of the Archconfraternity with the recitation of the Office of the Dead.

If you enlarge, you will see a sign on one of the candles written in ancient Greek.

It is

ΘΑΝΏΝ
ΑΣΤΈΡΑΣ
ΟΙΚΟΝ
ΕΧΕΙ

Just to help, that’s something like, “now dead he has a dwelling in the stars”

I am not sure where this is from, but I have a suspicion it’s an ancient epigram.

Removing the pall, you can see also a larger version of the other epitaph on the other candle.  In Latin.

Which is…

IOHANNI CAROLO CRASSO
ARCHISODALITATIS
SANCTISSIMAE TRINITATIS IN URBE
CAMERARIO
LATINARUM GRAECARUMQ LITTERARUM PERITO
SACRARUMQUE CAERIMONIARUM MAGISTRO
IN EOD AUGUSTAE TRIADIS TEMPLO PEREGRINATOR
DIUTINA AEGRITUDINE FIRMITER SUSTENTA
QUI TAM RECTE VIXIT QUAM PIE EXIIT
ANNOS XLIII MENSES VIII DIES X
LACRIMARUM TRIBUTA MAESTARUM
REQUIEM IN PACE
BEATAE GLORIAM AETERNITATIS 
LUCTUOSI OPTANT SODALES

It’s a lovely inscription.   Giancarlo, who taught Latin, would probably have enjoyed you giving your own accurate yet smooth version, as Foster would have said.

I missed his funeral by a few days.

Please remember me when shopping online and use my affiliate links.  US HERE – UK HERE  WHY?  This helps to pay for health insurance (massively hiked for this new year of surprises), utilities, groceries, etc..  At no extra cost, you provide help for which I am grateful.

In churchy news… Francis is in Luxembourg. I guess that’s the perifery.

In chessy news… HERE