Sunrise in Rome was at 5:50 and sunset will be at 20:24.
The Ave Maria is in the 20:45 cycle.
It is the traditional Feast of St. Robert Bellarmine and the Feast of the Dedication of Santa Maria “ad Martyres” (the Pantheon) in 609.
‘Tis also the Feast of Our Lady of Fatima.
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Catulus domini
Hillbilly Pappy
Speculum Iustitiae
In Afghanistan, the Taliban has outlawed chess because they consider it to be gambling. This was a problem in the Church for a while, too. For some time, chess also used dice! Games of chance were forbidden for clerics and religious, but many simply played anyway, including St. Teresa of Avila, who cites chess imagery in Interior Castle and who is the Patron Saint of Chess Players. A couple of the more famous openings for white are named after priests, the Ruy Lopez (aka The Spanish) and the Ponziani (after a priest who became Vicar General of Modena and with two others a member of the so-called Modena School of Chess, in vigore after Philador).
Lunch today, nothing special. I made a sauce with garlic, hot pepper, and fresh basil. I like “fat” spaghetti. Easier to get here.
Supper… after a couple of days of eating out, salad. The dressing: macerate cherry tomatoes with salt, white wine vinegar, finely chopped garlic. Crunchy and soft, salty and sweet. Red wine: cesanese. I have some gorgonzola and a pear.
Priest have asked if on Sunday they can add a collect for the new Pope under one conclusion. Yes. You can. And you should!
The entrance to my very humble (not Casa Marta humble) abode. I’m the second door on the left.
Tired again.
It’s like… this huge weight is gone and now I just want to rest, sleep, be normal without the worries of the Stasi fueled by lunatic catholic “New Red Guards” who for years have been on my case trying to ruin my life. Today was rainy so I basically just slept a lot.
