Daily Rome Shot 1550

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1. Venerator Sti Lot says:

   14 February 2026 at 6:34 PM

   Thanks – and to Diane Montagna – for the news!

   The Dutch Wikipedia, I find, has an “Oss” article, which has a section with links to articles about ‘Places of interest’ including a church – with an article entitled “Grote Kerk (Oss)”, which describes it (with the aid of Google Translate) as “The Church of Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception”, corresponding to the details in the left-hand photo Diane Montagna provides, and its Wikimedia Commons selection includes a photo of clearly the same interior. Not surprisingly, searching Cardinal Eijk’s English, German, French, Spanish, Dutch, and Latin Wikipedia articles for the native words for “mass” did not lead me to any information about his preparation for “his first Traditional Latin Mass”, though he is certainly old enough to have known it – and even as altar boy assisted at it – in his youth.
2. nex001 says:

   14 February 2026 at 7:49 PM

   The fact that they can make 37 grand a month with little real thought behind it (except whatever thought went into training the AI module) speaks volumes. I’m seriously starting to think that the Amish were right when they chose to just throw it all away…But then again, their hypocrisy when it comes to what’s allowed and what’s not is quite well known. Don’t you just hate being human sometimes? We really can’t win either way.
3. TheCavalierHatherly says:

   15 February 2026 at 10:26 AM

   The Peters Biography of Benedict XVth is excellent.

   @nex001

   It’s a matter of attention, not technology. Where and to what we direct our attention is important. Some influences have definitely gotten more skilled at absconding with it, to be sure, but at the same time there is immense opportunity that comes with the dangers of technology. Petrarch wept over a Greek copy of Homer he couldn’t read; the will to read Homer’s Greek can find immediate scope for fulfillment in the 21st century.

   What neither the luddites (Rousseau’s Romantics) or the transhumanists (Bacon’s Rationalists) realize, since they are really the same thing, is that the struggle for human flourishing is within.
4. Chris Garton-Zavesky says:

   15 February 2026 at 10:51 AM

   Deo Gratias for the example of Cardinal Eijk.
   May his tribe increase!
5. Suburbanbanshee says:

   15 February 2026 at 4:13 PM

   I agree. I learned ancient Greek because The Great Courses gets streamed online.

   And when I was able to understand the prologue to the Iliad as written – then for the first time in my life, I felt the sensations that Dickinson described as the mark of poetry.

   I owe those who do good things on the Internet a great deal.

   It is sad that others try to make it a weapon of evil, but that does not take away what good people have done.