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
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Black to move and mate in 5
1… Qxg3+ 2. hxg3 f6+ 3. Kxh5 Bf3+ 4. Kh4 Rh1+ 5. Qh2 • Rxh2#
[NB: I’ll hold comments with solutions ’till the next day so there won’t be “spoilers” for others.]
In St. Louis there is a fun Fischer Random (9LX) going on. Fabi is ahead. My guy Wesley won yesterday. He’s a beast at 9LX, if I am not mistaken. Garry Kasparov is playing as is Hikaru. I’ll try to watch some of this later.
Dear Fr. Z,
“The alstroemeria has not been the very best, so I’ve opted for roses, which Moses still knowses.”
Is there any way I can give you a Gold Star for the Day? :-)
Have a blessed day!!
Arise: I’d like to take credit for that, but one of you other readers posted that soon after I got here. In fact it might have been, roses which Moses still noses.
St Hyacinthus relics are in the high altar of Collegio Urbano de Propaganda Fide on the Janiculum Hill. My residence when I was a seminarian in Rome. Cardinal Agaginian, then prefect of the Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith and, it is said, a very close ‘runner up’ to Cardinal Roncalli, Patriarch of Venice, in the conclave of October 1958, consecrated this altar. Cardinal Roncalli went on to be Pope John XXIII.
My room at the college was directly across St Peter’s Square from the bedroom and study of St John Paul II, so I knew what time retired for the night, 10pm. I do not know when he got up in the morning as his lights were on at 6.15 am, the time I got up for morning prayer and Mass at 6.30 am.
In Rome at the Piazza della Rotunda, in front of the Pantheon, once was plagued with buskers, most with amplifiers. Now they are forbidden. And when a busker starts, the hotels call the police.
The NFT nature of the image…. well not sure you can register a model as an NFT, as NFTs only exist in cyberspace. However, it’s a way of making an image legally unique, so potentially if someone replicates it they could be sued.
Either that, or the Vatican is about to invest in crypto currency. Not a bad call, but they messed up so many property deals I worry what some older Bishop somewhere might think about investing in that sort of stuff (you failed on bricks and mortar investments in London… don’t go near a computer Archbishop Sunshine).
How were the Olivas? Looks nice.