The sun rose over Rome at 7:06 and it is going to set soon at 18:52.
The Ave Maria today changed to the 1900 cycle. It is the Feast of the Guardian Angels, to whom we owe so much joyful gratitude and… attention.
Angele Dei, qui custos es mei,
me tibi commissum pietate superna
(hodie, hac nocte)
illumina, custodi, rege, et guberna!
Amen.
Thank you, Lord, for this day.
A taste of last night’s edge of golden light towards the aforementioned sunset.
Notice the “mascherone” and the kids with the soccer ball. Rome.
What greeted me this morning. Click for larger.
I have my eye on a new place and I won’t have this view. But I’ll get over it.
This isn’t the Feast of St. Raphael, but Raphael certainly was Tobit’s Guardian Angel! This is one of the beautifully restored paintings at The Parish.
Breakfast with The World’s Best Sacristan™.
Last night we were bringing some things over to my place from storage and I saw that many of the lamps were blinking. “What gives?” Remember a couple weeks back I posted some video of a bad storm at Rome? It seems that that storm screwed up whatever regulates the consistency of current (capacitors?) to these lights.
In the church across the way, dedicated to St. Jerome, St Philip Neri started his Oratory. Here is a little inscription for those who are so inclined. I know at least one of you are, because you asked for it. There is interesting information in here for the history of the Roman Church.
TEMPLVM HOC CLARISSIMVM, OLIM S. PAVLAE, MATRONAE ROM.
DOMICILIVM S. HIERONYMI ECCLESIAE DOCTORIS MAXIMI HO
SPITIVM AC DIVTVRNVM S.PHILIPPI NERII DIVERSORIVM
VNA CVM ARA MAXIMA IN HONOREM S.DOCTORIS EIVSDEM
ERECTA (SVB QVA PRAETER SS:PRIMITIVI ET VITALIS)
RELIQVIAS EIVS TABVLA INCLVSAS ALIORVM PLVSQVAM
DVCENTORVM ITIDEM MARTYRVM CORPORA REQVIESCVNT
ILLM.VS ET RMVS D. CAROLVS ALBERTVS GVIDOBONVS
CAVALCHINI ARCHIEPVS PHILIPPENSIS RITV SOLENNI
CONSECRAVIT III KAL. OCTOBRIS ANNI MDCCXXXVIII
HVIVS VERO CONSECRATIONIS ANNIVERSARIVM FESTVM CELE
BRARI IN POSTERVM STATVIT. DOMINICA TERTIA CVIVSLIBET
MENSIS SEPTEMBRIS. QVA DIE XPI FIDELIBVS ILLVD DEVOTE
VISITANTIBVS PRAETER PLENARIAM QVOTIDIANAM ALIASQVE
PLVRIMAS SVMMORVM PONTIFICVM BENEFICENTIA ATTRIBVTAS
INDVLGENTIAS. ALIAM XL. DIERVM IN FORMA ECCLESIAE
CONSVETA PERPETVO DVRATVRAM CONCESSIT
ARCHICONFRATERNITAS CHARITATIS
NE REI MEMORIA EXCIDERET MONVMENIVM PONI CVRAVIT
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In churchy news… I recommend a piece by my friend Robert Royal at The Catholic Thing about the empty rehashing of 70’s cliches in this round of “walking together about walking togetherity”.
Also, the Holy See is bleeding red ink. My spies say that the hunt is one for buildings etc. to sell in Rome to plug the hole. Gosh. I wonder what would happen if their “messaging” changed? But who am I to judge.
In chessy news.. HERE
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