This warm sunny day, the sun rose to make it so at 5:38. Cooling will commence in earnest at 20:37.
The Ave Maria bell is in the 21:00 cycle.
It is the feast of St. Philip Neri, my great friend and patron. His body is not far from where I type this, less than five minutes if I hit the green light to get across the Corso. I stopped into the Chiesa Nuova this morning after my own Mass.
Today I celebrated Mass for my parents.
Yesterday I celebrated Mass for all my benefactors.
Tomorrow I will say for all my ROMAN donors.
It is such an awesome grace to be able to offer Mass for intention which God’s understands better than I, little priest.
One of The Parish’s many reliquaries of St. Philp.
St. Philip is Co-Patron of Rome with St. Peter.
This is how The World’s Best Sacristan™ put out my vestments today.
Off to visit St. Philip’s tomb in the Chiesa Nuova.
Today they took of the grate in front of the tomb.
How I love the light in Rome at this time of year. It is so hard to leave.
Supper tonight with The Great Roman™ a friend now of “the years of Jesus”, one of the most honorable men I have every known.
We split a first. Frankly, we ordered one thing and they brough another, but it worked out.
Which rombo is mine?
Elle Effe… they do a good job. I have a feeling that they are slightly better organized during the day than the evening. However when “cook” is on, he’s on. He was on tonight.
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Don’t forget the monks of Norcia!
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We attended Mass at the altar of St Philip when we were in Rome last year. Despite attending one of the English Oratories for many years I’ve never had a particular devotion to him but something clicked that day. There’s an extraordinary sense of peace around him.