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Category Archives: SESSIUNCULA
ROME 25/4– Day 24: Conclave insider stuff and MSM machinations
In Rome we got sun at 06:01. It sets at 20:15. The Ave Maria Bell is in the 20:30 cycle. I was at a meeting of journalists, long-time Vatican watchers. It was informative. The personal experience of a few of … Continue reading
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ROME 25/4– Day 23: What’s up?
Up went the sun at 06:03. Down it’ll go at 20:12. The Ave Maria Bell, you ask? For the Curia 20:30. However, the real schedule is pegged to sunset. Today is a 1st Friday. It is the Feast of St. … Continue reading
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Prayers for the Election of a Roman Pontiff (Fr. Z’s and Card. Burke’s)
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ROME 25/4– Day 22: bare bones
It’s the feast of St. Joseph Opifex… the Worker. On 19 March 1937 (the Feast of Saint Joseph), Pius XI placed “the vast campaign of the Church against world Communism under the standard of Saint Joseph, her mighty protector.” In 1955, Pius … Continue reading
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ROME 25/4– Day 21: Market forces
At 6:05 the sun began to appear in Rome. It’s evening disappearing act commences at 20:10. The Ave Maria Bell is in it’s 20:30 cycle. In the NO calendar we celebrate St. Pius V and in the VO, St. Catherine … Continue reading
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VIDEO Message from Card. Burke before and for the Conclave
I posted his prayer, with one of my own, HERE NEW: Citing the “gravity of the situation” Cardinal Burke today urged Catholics to continue praying his novena after the 9 days, until the pope is elected. He adds: “If you … Continue reading
ROME 25/4– Day 20: Tolling and rolling
In the Eternal City, sede vacante, we had the rising of the sun at 6:08 and its setting at 20:08. The Ave Maria cycle changed to 20:30. It does that. Today in the Vetus Ordo was the first day possible for … Continue reading
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FLASH: Conclave to begin on 7 May
According to ANSA a few minutes ago, the Conclave will start on Wednesday 7 May. We have a little extra time to pray and to take on some penances for the sake of the election of the best man as … Continue reading
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Orationes pro eligendo Romano Pontifice – Prayers for the Election of a Roman Pontiff (Fr. Z’s and Card. Burke’s)
I was requested to write a prayer – in Latin – for the election of a good Successor of Peter. Oratio pro eligendo Summo Pontifice Deus Pater Omnipotens, qui in creationis initio aquas primordiales calmasti, Sancto volitante Spiritu, eundem Spiritum … Continue reading
ROME 25/4– Day 19: Low Sunday – with a grand digression
Today the sun rose at 06:10 and it will set at 20:07 and the Ave Maria Bell is still in the 20:25 and it is Low Sunday and the Station is San Pancrazio and the Feast day of of St. … Continue reading
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