Today is the Feast of St. Joseph Calasanzio, who founded the Piarists. He was also a member of the Archconfraternity at Santissima Trinità dei Pellegrini, to which I belong. St. Joseph’s body is in the nearby San Pantaleone.
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In chessy news, … I am sad. Yesterday in St. Louis at the Sinquefield Cup, my guy Wesley with black lost one to Nodirbek. Puer beat Ding. Nepo drew against Pragg and wound up with more time on his clock than he started with.
Today I will go play OTB. Last Saturday I faced a Pirc defense, which I have now reviewed. Will I see it again?
After OTB I am off to the appliance store to deal with my washing machine problem. My machine died. There’s no hope for it. Therefore, it must be replaced. I posted about this yesterday and several of you readers wrote back right away with offers of assistance. I will gladly accept. However, I first want to scope out my options. I’ve done some extensive searches online. At this point, I am inclined to use a veteran owned business near to where I go to play chess. I’ll stop in and look around. I’ll need the option for having the dead washer hauled away to whatever fate awaits it. I wonder if there would be a practical use of the washer’s motor? Nah… I can’t go down that path.
This washing machine issue is annoying, especially since I wanted to start raising some funds for my time in Rome in October. But I have the genuine consolation that there are kind people out there who would like to help. I can’t adequately express what that means to me.
Also, along these lines, many thanks to you regular donors. Last Sunday I said Mass for the intention of my benefactors, as I do regularly.
Interim, motus ad lusorem cum militibus albis pertinent. Scaccus mattus, scilicet mors regis, duobus in motis veniat.
NB: Detineam explicationes in crastinum, ne vestrae interrumpantur commentationes.
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Also, I saw this…
St. Willibrord’s Church, Utrecht, Netherlands was scheduled for demolition in the 1970’s, but after a public outcry, was spared the wrecking ball. It is presently under the stewardship of the Society of St. Pius X. pic.twitter.com/HuIehIPfQf
— Father V (@father_rmv) August 27, 2024
I am perplexed by those who would sell our churches to non-Christians for either profane or false-religious uses. It’s like the attitude of those driving Taurina cacata… they’d rather see a smoking crater than a church filled with happy people and lots of young families who practice the Faith.
Also, …
#OnThisDay 1816 a combined @royalnavy & @kon_marine Fleet under Admiral Edward Pellew & Vice Adm. Theodorus van Capellen, bombarded the African port of Algiers to enforce the abolition of Christian slavery. The ferocious battle was a success freeing 3000 Christian slaves. pic.twitter.com/Dmn2eRjZM3
— On This Day RN (@OnthisdayRN) August 27, 2024
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Only a barbarian could destroy such a magnificent edifice as that church. Thank God it was preserved.
Vexatious h2 so…
1. Rg1 h2xg1
2. Qh5#
If 1. …h2-h1Q
2. RxQ#
1. Q-f5 . . h2-h1=Q or R
2. R-h5#
The double check elegantly neutralizes Black’s newly minted queen or rook.
But, if Black’s response to Q-f5 is to move its rook, I don’t see mate in 2.
That ceiling!! If I have the opportunity to travel to Rome one day, I will spend much of my time staring at these beautiful ceilings.
Feast of the Seven Joys
Very true, Sandy. Only a barbarian could seek to destroy the Old Latin Mass, too.
Speaking of which, our parish in Brooklyn, New York, has its regular shepherd back, one of the few remaining good Jesuits. Attendance is booming. Dozens of children underfoot. Plain chant and Pretorius ring out. The more aforesaid barbars try to suppress, the more the Old Mass grows.
The Wikipedia article, “St. Willibrord’s Church, Utrecht” mentions the work of “Lay people and father Winand Kotte A.A.” – I checked the Dutch Wikipedia, found his article, and ran a couple paragraphs through a familiar translation machine, and this was the result:
In August 1970, together with the Jesuit Ed Krekelberg, he called on all priests in the Netherlands to join his Saint Willibrordus community, which aimed to form a front against the modernist movements in the Dutch Church. In doing so, he came into conflict with Bernardus Cardinal Alfrink, who was Archbishop of Utrecht from 1955 to 1975. With the help of a few laymen, he succeeded in saving the neo-Gothic Saint Willibrordus Church in Utrecht, which had been closed by the Archdiocese in 1967, from demolition during the so-called Second Iconoclasm. The Mass he celebrated according to the Tridentine rite at the festive reopening of the church in August 1971 was attended by, among others, former minister Joseph Luns.
In 1975, an ecclesiastical court of the archdiocese in Utrecht prohibited him from celebrating Mass, working as a pastor, hearing confessions or preaching. Father Kotte always ignored this prohibition and was acquitted on all counts by the Congregation for the Clergy in 1977 on appeal, which means that he always administered the sacraments validly and lawfully. The main reason why Kotte was unable to restore ties with the archdiocese during his lifetime was the fact that the archdiocese of Utrecht at the time required that the Willibrordus Church be closed.
In 1986, Kotte bought the church. With the help of legacies and donations that the priest had received and with the help of funds from the European Union, the Dutch government and the municipality of Utrecht, the church was almost completely restored between 1990 and 2005. As a result, it is now one of the best and most impressive testimonies of the Utrecht school within the Neo-Gothic style.
1. Rg1 wins. This was cute.
Hmm. I thought of an unorthodox path for black out of Rg1.
1. Rg1 Rh8
If 2. Qh5#, then Kg8, White Queen is threatened, and you still have the risk of the black pawn becoming queen. Am I missing something?
@Michael in NoVa – Qh5 would be a poor move in that case, but taking the pawn on g7 with the queen instead appears to be checkmate.
Michael in NoVA: You are missing 2. Qxg7#
Nice, though. I hadn’t even considered 1. …. Rh8 as a potential response for Black.
When the french troops landed in Sidi Ferruch in 1830, they took Algiers a few days later ans they freed more than 25000 slaves, mainly european people, and even a japanese man.
There were many other places in Barbaria where a lot of other slaves were detained and freed by the frenchies.
One have to remind that Saint Vincent de Paul himself was once taken by the barbarians on a boat and enslaved in Tunis.