Daily Rome Shot 1421

UPDATED:

While editing a photo, content creator Maik Vélez received an unexpected surprise: the artificial intelligence (AI) he was using identified the Blessed Sacrament as a person. The video sharing this discovery has since gone viral on social media.

On his Instagram account, Vélez… pic.twitter.com/L8cV5XBbC7

— ChurchPOP (@Church_POP) September 2, 2025

And now back to a Rome Shot.

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It must be unofficial coffee day. Watching a YT video about a guy who is building a homestead in wilderness Ontario, I learned of a brand of coffee called “Wolf’s Milk” which features Romulus and Remus with the Lupa. Alas, out of stock. I thought The Great Roman™ might enjoy it. This morning my coffee machine had its “clean me” light going, so, even as I type, it is going through its cycle. Then I received a note from the Wyoming Carmelites about their classic “Mystic Monk Blend” which they’ve had for 20 years. It’s good.  What next?

Welcome Registrant:

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Not great news abounds these days. It’s been going on for a long time.

Guest article: “The Old Liturgy and the New Despisers of the Council” https://t.co/XWVUUGyX32

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Of Josef Cardinal Frings, his niece Sigrid Sels reports:

When the second liturgical reform took place [i.e., in 1969], he was stunned and told us, “This is not what we Council… pic.twitter.com/Pic8pFtuyn

— Rorate Caeli (@RorateCaeli) September 2, 2025

Remember: Paul VI met with Idi Amin Dada.

The audience with Pope Leo afforded @JamesMartinSJ—the American Jesuit promoter of the LGBTQ+ agenda in the Church—the opportunity to try to “tie his hands” by “telling the world what the Pope allegedly said in private conversations,” writes @lanuovaBQ: https://t.co/X3Z0fJ05Nv pic.twitter.com/AZgaHIt9g0

— Diane Montagna (@dianemontagna) September 3, 2025

I remind the readership that we do not know what was said in that meeting.      We have only Jasmine’s account.  I, for one, stand with the famous statement of Mary McCarthy when it comes to him.

Father James Martin, whom Pope Leo XIV received in private audience this week, proposes an “alternate catechism,” one that “cannot be squared with Catholic teaching” and is in fact “the rejection of that teaching.” A review of Father Martin’s book ‘Building a Bridge’ by Father…

— Edward Pentin (@EdwardPentin) September 3, 2025

Dear Mother, most holy and sorrowful, you who stood by your Son as He agonized on the cross.

By the sufferings of your life, by the sword of pain that pierced your heart, in your perfect joy in heaven — look down on us, our Mother.

Pray for us in our many and deep struggles. pic.twitter.com/xP26DBvGLP

— Bishop Robert Reed ? (@BpRobertReed) September 2, 2025

I would add to this a reminder to pray for priests, especially for troubling and troubled priests. I link to this on the side bar where you can find it each day. It is also linked in the combox form!

A Daily Prayer for Priests

In chessy news… not much…

Black to move.  What to do?

NB: I’ll hold comments with solutions ’till the next day so there won’t be “spoilers” for others.

Hey Fathers!  How about a clerical Guayabera shirt?  (They have lots of lay clothes, too.)