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Rome Diaries - Week 116
February 27th, 2011 Many surprises on my last day of retreat...the first comes as I try to find the chapel for Sunday Mass. No one is in...
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Jan 30, 2023
Rome Diaries - Week 115
February 24th, 2011 I am on retreat at San Martino delle Scale, the only Benedictine monastery still operating in Sicily. The site was...
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Jan 23, 2023
Rome Diaries - Week 114
December 9th, 2010 Yesterday our cook confided, “I want to be a pilgrim.” In part, the journey was to seek a healing for a painful...
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Jan 16, 2023
Rome Diaries - Week 113
October 31st, 2010 The view from Monte Mario, the highest point in Rome, is what medieval pilgrims saw when the city first spread out...
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Dec 12, 2022
Rome Diaries - Week 112
October 7th, 2010 During an early evening chat at a wine bar, the peculiar life of the stigmatist Padre Pio enters the conversation. A...
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Dec 5, 2022
Rome Diaries - Week 111
August 18th, 2010 After countless visitors have blissfully mentioned their visit to the Amalfi Coast, I decide I must go now. Last year,...
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Nov 28, 2022
Rome Diaries - Week 110
August 6th, 2010 It is time, finally, to explore the maze of rooms beneath San Giovanni and Paolo on the Caelian Hill. The area was once...
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Nov 21, 2022
Rome Diaries - Week 109
July 31st, 2010 During a visit to Saint Peter’s, a woman in front of me sits down on one of the large circles of porphyry that make up...
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Nov 14, 2022
Rome Diaries - Week 108
July 19th, 2010 A friend returns from Lourdes. She went there to dip into the miraculous spring. As she describes her visit, tears come:...
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Nov 7, 2022
Rome Diaries - Week 107
July 1st, 2010 Today I go on a day trip to Assisi. St. Clare of Assisi was fifteen years old when she first heard Francis preach a Lenten...
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Oct 31, 2022
Rome Diaries - Week 106
June 10th, 2010 Sutri, from the earliest times, was a strategic spot. Its walls are bolstered by sheer cliffs of volcanic stone and the...
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Oct 24, 2022
Rome Diaries - Week 105
May 19th, 2010 The Holy House of Loreto has been on my list of places to visit for a while. Tradition has it that angels lifted Mary’s...
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Oct 17, 2022
Rome Diaries - Week 104
April 22nd, 2010 The place for the ancient ruins of everyday is not in Rome, where politics and economics conspired to keep only the...
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Oct 10, 2022
Rome Diaries - Week 103
April 19th, 2010 Finally I am getting around to reading “Rome Before Avignon” by Robert Brentano. It deals with Rome during its most...
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Oct 3, 2022
Rome Diaries - Week 102
April 7th, 2010 Since Easter Sunday is not really a holiday, we have Pasquetta or “Little Easter” the following day. This is a civic...
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Sep 26, 2022
Rome Diaries - Week 101
March 30th, 2010 A lucky glance inside Chiesa Nuova alerted me to an upcoming performance of Pergolesi’s oratorio Stabat Mater. This...
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Sep 12, 2022
Rome Diaries - Week 100
March 27th, 2010 Enjoying the terrace on this early spring day, I read about one of my favorite buildings in R. A. Scotti’s “Basilica.”...
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Sep 5, 2022
Rome Diaries - Week 99
March 20th, 2010 After years of Saturday trips into the country, our parish is running out of destinations. Today we set off early to...
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Aug 29, 2022
Rome Diaries - Week 98
March 11th, 2010 Tasso Torquato (1544 - 1595), author of the epic poem Gerusalemme Liberata (Jerusalem Delivered), was a sort of talented...
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Aug 21, 2022
Rome Diaries - Week 97
February 4th, 2010 I make my way quickly past the elegant Palazzo della Cancelleria, the first building in Rome constructed in the...
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