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Monthly Archives: October 2025
WDTPRS – 20th WEEK after Pentecost: Quiet is a hallmark of the holy.
This year, 2025, the 20th Sunday after Pentecost gave way to the Feast of Christ the King, since it was the last Sunday of October. Hence, we don’t get to hear the Collect until a day during the week when … Read More
ROME 25/10 – Day 29/30: But wait… there’s more…
Today the sunrise in Rome was at 7:35 and the sun should set at 18:13…. ooops… no … wait. The Curial calendar did not reset. “Daylight Savings” here ended yesterday night. Hence, today’s calendar page should say sunrise was at … Read More
We miss Semper Gumby… Supertradmum… Henry… many others
We’d like to have them back. Right now, we can’t have some of them. I pray for everyone who is now and who ever was a benefactor. Today I said Mass for my benefactors. I’m so grateful to benefactors and … Read More
In San Pietro: Card. Simoni went straight at the devil
During the Mass at San Pietro, I sat right behind Ernest Card. Simoni. 97 years old, Albanian, tortured, imprisoned to do forced labor, sentenced to death. At the end of Mass he went to the ambo and recited the long … Read More
Your Sunday Sermon Notes – Christ the King (N.O.: 30th) 2025
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 Christ the … Read More
ROME 25/10 – Day 28: Mass at San Pietro
The Ave Maria Bell should have rung at 18:30. The ringing of the bell is connected to sundown, which was at 18:16. The sun went down after rising as 7:32. It is the Feast of Sts. Crispin and Crispinianus, martyrs … Read More
My Annual St Crispin’s Day roundup with Henry V speech!
What you have been waiting for all month, I’m sure, knowing that soon it would be St. Crispin’s. The 3rd c. martyrs Crispin and Crispinian were killed in Soissons. They converted people as they plied their trade as cobblers and … Read More
ROME 25/10 – Day 27: sloppy post
It is almost midnight and I watching the last day of the US Championship. I need to make a sloppy post. Figure it out. You know what I mean. Happy Feast of St. Raphael. Pontifical Vespers as part of the … Read More
ROME 25/10 – Day 26:
Every day is a little shorter. Today the sun rose at 7:30. It set at 18:19. The Ave Maria Bell is now in the 18:30 cycle. New registrants: not a companyman Bob Fuller I’ll get my amazon reminder in later! … Read More
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