Lunedi Lunacy

This may be a bit of a specialized lunacy suitable for my friends and readers with a liturgical bent but lunacy it is. But then so much of it is, isn't it?

Many thanks to my dear Rob in Rome for this one. Miss you caro.

23 January - 1556: An earthquake devestated Shaanxi Province in China with a loss of nearly 830,000 lives.

And Here's Father Ross

A collect at the ordination of a priest

Almighty God, who hath given you this will to do all these things: Grant also unto you strength and power to perform the same; that he may accomplish his work that he hath begun in you; through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Amen

And here is Father Ross and Albert - Ross is wearing a chasuble (the red vestment that he is sporting) that Albert made for him - though he rather irreverently revered to it as a Horse blanket. If it is a horse blanket it was made for a thoroughbred.

27 aprile - Santa Zita vergine