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What happened at 07:17?   What is going to happen at 18:35?

What about at 18:45?

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Lately I’ve celebrated masses with intentions for:

VD
A (leukemia)
FSSP

Also, for my benefactors
Also, a 1 year anniversary Requiem.
Also, a couple whose 50th anniversary is today.  YAY!

I can take some intentions.  HERE

Thank you Lord for this day.

Speaking of 50th anniversary, while this might be the most flattering shot of Pippo, it did catch him in one of his moments wherein he revels in what he does.  These 50 roses are for Mary at The Parish from the Golden Couple today.

Pinna and Peppa looked on, slightly interested at what Pippo was upp to.

Pippo gave me some peppers.  As I walked around I felt like Diogenes.   Near the apartment, I had wry remarks from the neighbors, like “Buona PASTA!”

On my way to the ATM (thank you donors) there was this with lovely light at the Mons Pietatis.

In churchy news… what’s going on?  Oh, yes, *yawn*… walking together about walking togetherity.

Today is the Feast of Carlo Acutis.  It is also Columbus Day.  I, however, used Mary on Saturday with added orations for Thanksgiving.  But we could use Carlo Acutis, once proclaimed a saint and on the universal calendar.

Far more interesting than anything going on with walking together is this purple rock on Mars:

Yes, this is a purple rock on Mars, 225 million kilometres away. And here it is in your feed!
Image captured by NASA’s Opportunity Mars Rover. pic.twitter.com/NQWNbYyVp5

— Curiosity (@MAstronomers) October 12, 2024

Hey Fathers!  How about a clerical Guayabera shirt?

In chessy news… HERE

I stopped at the chess guys yesterday in the P.za der Fico.  They are about the same.  I note that they had been there for hours by this point.

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At Rome (how said in Latin?) the sun rose at 7:16. The sun will set at 18:37. Clouds moving in. Will we see it?

The Ave Maria Bell has, according to the Vatican that never sounds it, shifted to the 18:45 cycle.

The Vatican calendar indicates today at the Feast of John XXIII. However the Vetus calendar has today as the Feast of the Maternity of Mary. It is also the Feast of St. Philip the Deacon.

Thank you for this day, O Lord.

Sauteed porcini mushrooms.

On the way home the other night.

In a nearby church is this lovely tribute to Out Lady.  There is a detail at the bottom….

… which should not be missed.  Click for larger.  HERE  The heretics Pelagius Mohammed and Luther are identified by heresies.  Mohammed was long considered a Christian heretic (as in Dante).  There are hell-critters near them, which is only proper.  I see a couple of cardinals too, which also seems proper right now.

The restaurants of the Campo are aggressively pushing into the space these days.  They are not all tourist traps.  Some are quite good.

In churchy news… I really haven’t been following much since I was mostly focused on what happened in Florida.

What’s going on?

Are they still “walking together”? Oh,… yes, there was something. The Jesuits hosted a meeting for sodomite luv at their HQ, replete with some Cardinals, one of whom is a Jesuit (I thought they were suppose to decline… oh well…) from Hong Kong. Jasmine was there of course. I’m sure it was a gay ol’ time.

This is why I often don’t even want to know the news. But it is better to know some things than not.

In chessy news… HERE

(White to play and mate in 3)

From the nearby S. M. in Monserrato.

She saw the consistory list.

The white roses are gone and the red are going.  But I added some alstroemeria.    I thank those who earmarked donations for flowers.  They cheer me up,  and I need cheering.

Last night’s chicken.  Browned a bit with some little tomatoes and some frozen veg I intended for soup but… hey.   An onion was sauteed after the spatchcocked chicken was given some color.  A little white wine.  Into the oven where I already had potatoes roasting, cut in chunks, soaked in salt water for a while, then given olive oil and rosemary.

And so I ate my supper and worried about Florida.

For good reason.

I’ve been texting people hoping that they have working cellular, begging them to check on my mom at her house (if she’s there).  I have no info since all the power is out there.   It’s nerve wracking.  That neighborhood was hit by a massive tornado. There are fatalities not far away and I saw in a fakebook posting that a street about 2 blocks from her place had water up to the mailboxes.

There are the usual post-tornado photos going around, which you can imagine.  It was really slammed hard.

Meanwhile, in churchy and chessy news… frankly, today….

I ask for your prayers.

At 07:14 the sun rose.

At 18:40 the should set.  If not… I don’t know.

• The Ave Maria is in the 19:00 cycle, though it is at 19:10 by the strictly solar account.
• It is the Feast the Old Testament Patriarch Abraham.  Yes, many OT figures are counted as saints by the Church.
• It is the Feast of St. Denis (c. III) of Paris.  May he intercede for that besieged city.
• It is the Feast of John Leonardi (+1609) whose body is at S. M in Campitelli just up the road.  Tonight members of the Archconfraternity of Ss. Trinità dei Pellegrini will join with them for a procession with the relics of the saint who was a great collaborator, if not member, the Archconfraternity.
• It is the Feast of St. John Henry Newman (+1890).  Recently Oratorians were around from all over the world for a general meeting for their own business.  Apparently, there is a project to have John Henry Newman named Doctor of the Church.  I think it is likely that it will succeed.

Thank you Lord for this day.

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I am joining these prayers to the orations of Holy Mass.

However, today I was privileged to celebrate a 1st anniversary Requiem for the father of one of the the owners of the bar I hang out at in the evening if I am meeting friends, Cafe Taba on the Campo.  I was able to use the new black vestment which our project brought to completion.  This is the one with my coat of arms.

I am so grateful to the donors.   The decorum of the Masses is greatly enhanced.   They will be available for all the priests who say Requiem Masses, especially in November.

Symmetrical Breakfast.

Over to the Campo to chat with the veg stand folks and then buy some flowers.  The white roses are gone and some red perdure.  However, I was after some alstroemeria.

On lookers.

Speaking of Cafe Taba… which drink is mine?

This was an interesting concoction from Enzo the Mixer, a special rye which one of my evening companions had brought (he’s  long time patron), a kind of Manhattan with a touch of chocolate bitters.   I am not sure I would choose the chocolate direction again, but it was a nice change of pace.

The pace changed seriously for supper as the three of us tackled an enormous fiorentina at a favored locale.   It may have been the best, most tender and flavorful fiorentina I have every had.

In churchy news… Walking Together about Walking Togetherity goes …. *yawn*…. on.   Robert Royal interview Fr. Murray at The Catholic Thing about it.  As usual Father makes good points.  One thing I would have stressed is that the point of the WTaWT is to establish the preeminence over all things – including fidelity and reason – of PROCESS.  That’s the whole megillah.

SSPX Bishop Bernard Tissier de Mallerais died on Tuesday 8 October 2024 having received the sacraments of our Holy Mother Church. Which he could receive because Benedict XVI lifted the excommunication. He was 79 years old, had been a priest for 49 years and a bishop for 36. He was one of Lefebvre’s first seminarians. May he rest in peace.

May his soul and all the souls of the faithful departed, through the mercy of God rest in peace.

In chessy news… HERE

07:13 was the time for the sun to evolve over the eastern horizon and at 18:42 it shall again devolve.

The Ave Maria should ring at 19:00 (though by the strictly solar reckoning I suppose it would be at 19:12).

Thank you, O Lord, for this day.

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I was out with a couple of lawyer friends last night, in Rome for different motives and who didn’t know each other.  However, my Marvel super-power is networking.  I wonder if this new connection will bear mutual fruits.   We are meeting for supper again tonight.

Last night, however, these were the appetizers.   Little fried anchovies.

Bruschetta with artichoke.   It’s “broo-SKETT-ah” not “broo-shett-ah”.

We had a lovely Sicilian box wine, remarked by one of my dining companions:

C’mon… that was funny.

In churchy news…

Card. Pizzaballa, Patriarch of Jerusalem and quite papabile, composed a prayer for peace.  Yesterday was the anniversary of the terroristic attacks on Israel.  It was also the anniversary of the Battle of Lepanto.  Get it?

Didn’t Pizzaballa offer to exchange himself for hostages?

This morning after celebrating St. Bridget of Sweden, I walked past her little (locked up) church at the P.za Farnese.  Little did I know that soon I would fire up Twitter and see this lovely illumation HERE. In the Morgan Library, from Naples, end of the 14th c.

There’s a lot going on in there.

In chessy news… HERE

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Hurricane Milton is coming.

It could be Cat FOUR.  It is just shy of Cat FIVE.

Here’s an action item for you believing priests and bishops out there.   With confidence we can pray the prayers which the Church has designated against storms.

I believe what the Church believes.  Do you?

Therefore….

BISHOPS OF THE GULF COAST AND FLORIDA: Stand on the steps of your respective cathedral churches, dressed in cope and miter and, surrounded by clergy, with crosiers in hand, pronounce from the traditional Rituale Romanum the Litany of Saints with the deprecatory prayers against storms.  [below]   Ring the cathedral bells.

Bells are sacramentals.  They are “baptized” and given names.  They speak.  In valleys of mountainous countries, as storms approached, people would ring the bells and pray the Litany.  That’s one of the reasons why we have consecrated bells!

You all talk to each other: perhaps coordinate your timing.

I know that in every chancery at least one person reads this blog, probably more.  Readers, especially if you know your bishops personally, ask them to do this.

Look, you bishops out there… I know you are nervous about Rome frowning on you because you used a traditional book.  You don’t have to publicize it.  If you are nervous, do in it private.  BUT DO IT.

For the love of God and those in your charge.  Use the God given office and authority of a successor of the Apostles and PRAY DOWN THIS STORM!

PRIESTS OF FLORIDA: Ditto.  Also, if you have blessed bells, ring the bells of your churches against the storm.

LAY PEOPLE: Get on your priests about this.  The prayers of priests and bishop are powerful.  Also, ask your holy angels to protect you and to help you make prudent decisions.

Fathers, Bishops…

Use the old Roman Ritual (yes, the traditional book – you can do it! – it’s the real deal!) and pray the Litany with the deprecatory prayers against storms. A procession could be done around the grounds of the cathedral or even indoors… even with a very few.

You don’t have to be directly in the line of the storm to pray for others!  You don’t have to be in Florida!  

Fathers… Bishops… do this in Latin to be most effective.

PROCESSION FOR AVERTING TEMPEST [Better in Latin, but here is the English.]

The church bells are rung, and all who can assemble in church. Then the Litany of the Saints is said, during which – at the right moment, namely, after the invocation, “That you grant eternal rest to all the faithful departed, etc.”, the following invocation is said twice:

From lightning and tempest, Lord, deliver us.

At the end of the litany the following is added:

P: Our Father (the rest inaudibly until:)
P: And lead us not into temptation.
All: But deliver us from evil.
Psalm 147
P: Glorify the Lord, O Jerusalem; * praise your God, O Sion.
All: For He has strengthened the bars of your gates; * He has blessed your children within you.
P: He has granted peace in your borders; * with the best of wheat He fills you.
All: He sends forth His command to the earth; * swiftly runs His word!
P: He spreads snow like wool; * He strews frost like ashes.
All: He scatters His hail like crumbs; * the waters freeze before His cold.
P: He sends His word and melts them; * He lets His breeze blow and the waters run.
All: He has proclaimed His word to Jacob, * His statutes and His ordinances to Israel.
P: He has not done thus for any other nation; * He has not made known His ordinances to them.
All: Glory be to the Father.
P: As it was in the beginning.
P: Our help is in the name of the Lord.
All: Who made heaven and earth.
P: Lord, show us your mercy.
All: And grant us your salvation.
P: Help us, O God, our Savior.
All: And deliver us, O Lord, for your name’s sake.
P: Let the enemy have no power over us.
All: And the son of iniquity be powerless to harm us.
P: May your mercy, Lord, remain with us always.
All: For we put our whole trust in you.
P: Save your faithful people, Lord.
All: Bless all who belong to you.
P: You withhold no good thing from those who walk in sincerity.
All: Lord of hosts, happy the men who trust in you.
P: Lord, heed my prayer.
All: And let my cry be heard by you.
P: The Lord be with you.
All: And with your spirit.

Let us pray.
God, who are offended by our sins but appeased by our penances, may it please you to hear the entreaties of your people and to turn away the stripes that our transgressions rightly deserve.

We beg you, Lord, to repel the wicked spirits from your family, and to ward off the destructive tempestuous winds.

Almighty everlasting God, spare us in our anxiety and take pity on us in our abasement, so that after the lightning in the skies and the force of the storm have calmed, even the very threat of tempest may be an occasion for us to offer you praise.

Lord Jesus, who uttered a word of command to the raging tempest of wind and sea and there came a great calm; hear the prayers of your family, and grant that by this sign of the holy cross all ferocity of the elements may abate.

Almighty and merciful God, who heal us by your chastisement and save us by your forgiveness; grant that we, your suppliants, may be heartened and consoled by the tranquil weather we desire, and so may ever profit from your gracious favors; through Christ our Lord.

All: Amen.
He sprinkles the surroundings with holy water.

Bishops, priests!

You don’t have to advertise this or call in the TV cameras (though that would be great, too).  JUST DO IT.

C’MON!  What do you have to lose?

It was cloudy, but the sun probably rose on time at 7:12.   It will probably have to be take on faith (evidence of things not seen) that it will set at  18:43.

The Ave Maria Bells is set for 19:00.

Thank you, Lord, for this day.

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Today is the Feast of Our Lady of the Rosary which means that it is also the anniversary of the Battle of Lepanto.   In Italian it’s: Lépanto.

It is also the Feast of St. Mark, Pope, who died in +336.  He was one of the first who was not a martyr.  I think the very first was Miltiades.

Here is a shot of one of the NEW black vestments laid out for one of the priests to celebrate a Requiem.   This is the one with my stemma.  What a pleasure to see it in use for the first time!

And this is The World’s Best Sacristan™ screwing around.

I had to consult with Pippo the florist today.  He assures me that there will be alstromeria soon.  However, I had to speak about 50 long stem yellow roses requested by friends who are coming to celebrate their 50th anniversary of marriage.  They want to give them to Mary at The Parish.  Nice.

Pippo, setting up.  You can say send him a note:  info@pippocampodefiori.com   You might say, “Ciao Pippo e Anastasia da uno dei lettori di don John!”

Then to the butcher, nearby.  Delivery in progress.

Rabbit… yum.

Today is the Feast of Sts. Sergius and Bacchus, early martyrs.  There is an image of them in the Church of St. Mary della Scala in Trastevere.  I’ve posted it before.  Not real flattering, I think.  It seems to me that both of them just saw …

… the consistory list.

It’s the eyes upward to Heaven that does it… or is it an eye roll?   Maybe it’s that.  An eye roll to Heaven.

Consistory list or maybe they are participants in the Walking Together about Walking Togetherity.

St. Sergio: “Please get me out of here?”
St. Bacco: “If I have to listen to this Jesuit one more minute…”.

Yesterday at the parish we had the Supplication to Our Lady of Pompeii.

And just for nice, from Holy Mass in the morning… external celebration of Our Lady of the Rosary (thus, white).

That leads to churchy news….

Yes, the list of new cardinals is out. Of those I know anything about, one is pretty good. One… an perhaps a subtle insult to the whole institution of the College and to us.

In chessy news… HERE

Hey Fathers!  How about a clerical Guayabera shirt?

UPDATE:

BREAKING: Bernard Tissier de Mallerais SSPX is dying and will live for only a few more days.

Please keep His Excellency in your prayers. pic.twitter.com/1jFh4jbXbt

— Matthew Joseph (@matthew_sede) October 7, 2024

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