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ROME 23/10 – Day 35: Purge them!
Sun up: 06:44 Sun down: 19:03 Ave Maria: 19:30 Days left: 3 full days The Feast of St. Charles Borromeo, whose heart is in the church San Carlo al Corso. Tomorrow it was one year ago that I had my … Read More
23rd Sunday after Pentecost: “Stand firm in the Lord, my beloved!”
Cross posted with One Peter Five HERE. We would have had a first selection from Philippians last week, the last Sunday of October, but the 22nd Sunday after Pentecost was superseded by the Feast of Christ the King in the … Read More
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Another reason why the TLM cannot be killed off. Boys.
At Aleteia, which I also never look at, there is a piece very much worth reading from top to bottom. I’m glad a friend alerted me to this. A man with sons set them to a hard task. He muses … Read More
ROME 23/10 – Day 34: IMPROVISE – ADAPT – OVERCOME
The Roman rising of the sun was at 06:42. The Roman setting of the same will be at 19:05. The Ave Maria bell is still on the 17:30 cycle. Welcome registrant: Angela61 It is a 1st Friday. Yesterday was NOT … Read More
ROME 23/10 – Day 33: Revelation of Relics and Repetition of Requiems
The sun rose at 06:41 and it will set at 17:06. The Ave Maria will be silent when it ought to ring at 17:30. 5 full days left. It is the Commemoration of All Souls. I mentioned sunrise. Yesterday, All … Read More
ROME 23/10 – Day 32: Imagine the joy
We are out of the days of my natal month and the coincidence of calendar and my length of stay. I enter now into the final stretch of days here, aka crunch time. I’m disoriented at the prospect of leaving. … Read More
1 November 2023 – All Saints – Holy Day of Obligation: We are all in this together.
While some bishop might obliterate the obligation by transferring it to a Sunday (what’s the point of that?), as All Saints falls on a Wednesday this year, it is a Holy Day of Obligation. The Church can determine our obligations … Read More
The present needs the past
Right now some clamor for everything in the Church, all her doctrine, liturgy (which is doctrine), law, structures… everything… to be “reinterpreted” in light of the “spirit” of Vatican II and the “spirit” of ongoing “synodality” (“walking togetherity”). From the … Read More
ROME 23/10 – Day 31: LifeSite Rome Forum meeting
On this last day of my natal month, the sun rose at 06:39 and it set at 17:08. The Ave Maria – 17:30. It is the Feast of Alfonso Rodriguez, SJ (+1617), and the Vigil of All Saints. Does that … Read More
ROME 23/10 – Day 30: promised videos
The Roman sun came up at 06:38 (now that we are off the “ora legale”) and it will leave Rome’s sight at 17:10. The Ave Maria Bell should ring at 17:30. Welcome registrants: DePicchi Knee1987 PaterNoster22 I offered Holy Mass … Read More
