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Diebus Saltem Dominicis – 3rd Sunday after Pentecost: Stay Frosty, My Friends

Rome can be hot during the summer.  Blazing hot and breezy, a recipe for fire.  Rome had recorded 6 great fires in its history.  However, on 18 July of 64 AD, a fire started near the vast chariot area, the Circus Maximus.  According to the ancient historian Tacitus (56-120), who was in Rome at the…

Diebus Saltem Dominicis: Constant fear and love in equal degree

This week’s offering presented a dilemma.  In many places the Vetus Ordo Feast of Corpus Christi will be observed on Sunday as an “external solemnity”.  Corpus Christi falls on the Thursday after Trinity Sunday and, in the Vetus Ordo, it had to be celebrated on that day.  However, it is permitted to repeat the Mass…

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