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Adriana Zalce Dworak retweeted
Sancte Michael Archangele,
defende nos in proelio;
contra nequitiam et insidias diaboli
esto praesidium.
Imperet illi Deus,
supplices deprecamur:
#SancteMichaelArchangele
#VetusOrdo
#RitoAntico
Adriana Zalce Dworak retweeted
Some theories are circulating online about the Latin Mass pilgrimage, spread by people unconnected with it.
Some clarity below —
Organisers asked for permission for the Vatican Mass, via a letter delivered directly to Pope Leo by Bishop Schneider in December. The pilgrimage is in its 15th year, and is always held on the same date.
Organisers received no answer about the Mass until August, when the Secretariat of State replied to say they could not have Mass in the Vatican. Pilgrimage organisers then announced publicly that no Mass would take place in the Vatican.
Instead, pilgrims would process into the Vatican at 1pm on the Saturday, and then go to St Mary Major for a 3pm Mass. Permission for the procession into the Vatican was granted in April 2026.
Weeks after this, in September, St Peter’s announced an event taking place at 3:30pm at the Altar of the Chair (used by the pilgrimage last year for Mass).
Then this week – just yesterday I am told – organisers received another letter from the Secretariat of State informing them they could not even process into the Vatican as planned, and as permitted since April. Basilica events are not the prerogative of the Secretariat but of the Archpriest & the Fabric of St Peter’s: hence why the Secretariat of State’s involvement is so strange.
On Saturday, pilgrims walked through the streets up to the obelisk in St. Peter’s Square – accompanied by Italian state police – where they were stopped by the Vatican as this was the limit of the Italian police’s jurisdiction.
Then they were informed that their usage of St Mary Major’s had changed: they could only be inside for an hour.
Thus meaning that the planned and authorised pontifical solemn Mass would have to be a low Mass.
Also St Mary Major’s informed pilgrimage that no official photos could be taken
Adriana Zalce Dworak retweeted
This is an international gathering that takes place every year, over more than 10 years. I was privileged to participate in 2017 and there were pilgrims from all over the world. U.S. participants were a minority. This has nothing to do with politics, it is about honoring God, like we have done for centuries.
Adriana Zalce Dworak retweeted
Sancte Michael Archangele,
defende nos in proelio;
contra nequitiam et insidias diaboli
esto praesidium.
Imperet illi Deus,
supplices deprecamur:
#SancteMichaelArchangele
#VetusOrdo
#RitoAntico
Adriana Zalce Dworak retweeted
Sancte Michael Archangele,
defende nos in proelio;
contra nequitiam et insidias diaboli
esto praesidium.
Imperet illi Deus,
supplices deprecamur:
#SancteMichaelArchangele
#VetusOrdo
#RitoAntico
Adriana Zalce Dworak retweeted
Sancte Michael Archangele,
defende nos in proelio;
contra nequitiam et insidias diaboli
esto praesidium.
Imperet illi Deus,
supplices deprecamur:
#SancteMichaelArchangele
#VetusOrdo
#RitoAntico
Adriana Zalce Dworak retweeted
Sancte Michael Archangele,
defende nos in proelio;
contra nequitiam et insidias diaboli
esto praesidium.
Imperet illi Deus,
supplices deprecamur:
#SancteMichaelArchangele
#VetusOrdo
#RitoAntico
Adriana Zalce Dworak retweeted
Sancte Michael Archangele,
defende nos in proelio;
contra nequitiam et insidias diaboli
esto praesidium.
Imperet illi Deus,
supplices deprecamur:
#SancteMichaelArchangele
#VetusOrdo
#RitoAntico
Adriana Zalce Dworak retweeted
Amazing: The galaxies in our universe are as various as snowflakes
(Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA)
Adriana Zalce Dworak retweeted
Happy 250th birthday, America! We got you a present. 🇺🇸
The red, white, and blue stars of this globular cluster shine like a sparkler waved on a dark night in this image from @NASAHubble, released in celebration of the United States' 250th anniversary.
ALT A collection of red, white, and blue stars sparkling in the darkness of space. The stars are most concentrated in the center of the image. There is more space between stars as you move to the edges of the picture. Credit: NASA, ESA, and A. Dotter (Dartmouth College); Processing: Gladys Kober (NASA/Catholic University of America)
Adriana Zalce Dworak retweeted
A heavenly scene painted across an entire dome.
The dome of the Basilica della Santissima Annunziata in Florence showcases a magnificent fresco depicting the Assumption of the Virgin by Baldassare Franceschini.
Adriana Zalce Dworak retweeted
Stop normalizing ‘Before Common Era’ (BCE) and ‘Common Era’ (CE).
Our history is under the Gregorian Calendar by these two periods:
🔹 Before Christ (BC) 🗿
🔹 Anno Domini (AD) ✝️
Adriana Zalce Dworak retweeted
The sun lights up the Pantheon’s doorway on Rome’s birthday.
Around April 21, the traditional founding date of Rome, midday sunlight from the oculus reaches the main entrance of the Pantheon. Nearly 1,900 years after it was built, its 43.3-meter / 142-foot unreinforced concrete dome still turns architecture into a precise play of stone, space, and light
Adriana Zalce Dworak retweeted
“Our world no longer hears God because it is constantly speaking, at a devastating speed and volume, in order to say nothing.”
- Cardinal Robert Sarah
Adriana Zalce Dworak retweeted
Chanel No 5 was launched on May 5, 1921
Coco Chanel chose the date deliberately: the fifth day of the fifth month
She had spent six years as a child in a Cistercian convent orphanage at Aubazine, founded in the 12th century
The nuns scrubbed everything with soap, so the corridors smelled of clean linen and cold stone
When Ernest Beaux presented her with ten sample vials, she chose the one that used an unprecedented concentration of aldehydes
Aldehydes smell like soap
Like the cold air in a convent corridor in winter
The best-selling perfume in history smells the way it does because of a girl's childhood in a 12th-century monastery
Adriana Zalce Dworak retweeted
Happy Cinco de Mayo!
Today in 1862, the outnumbered Mexican army defeated the invading French force at Battle of Puebla.
Adriana Zalce Dworak retweeted
✍️💫
L'art de l'enluminure était pratiqué au Moyen-âge, souvent par des moines, pour embellir les manuscrits de l'époque.
Merci, à Marie Lefèvre de l'atelier Creapills, de contribuer aujourd'hui à la préservation de cet art magnifique ! 🤩👇
(🎥expecto_pigmentum/Instagram)
