Greetings to Rome Boris, enjoy your stay there and keep up the good work!

Poland update:
-a short report with especially moving 6th paragraph and a small picture http://www.diecezja.tarnow.pl/index_01.php?dsi=137 ;
- a big part of radio interview, sadly with a Polish voiceover
http://www.rdn.pl/info_kzw/index.php?rdn=rdn_kzw200906919 ;
- and a photo gallery
http://www.rdn.pl/d_galeria/index.php?rdg=0032320096

......And the OSKAR goes to.........

V A N A D I J A

aplaus ... aplaus

TY, TY, TY! I hope you`re not expecting a speech now......

Go ahead, please!

Indeed Vanadija we are expecting your speech !!
You really deserve an Oscar !

Thank you so very much for those wonderful links . Reading the paragraph 6 on the first one , I got emotional and got tears down my cheeks . What a beautiful , touchy and compelling speech. I truly also loved his talk on the radio. Well... the little bit I could hear . What he said about the family did get to me again. He has a way to touch your heart... doesn't he ?
The pictures are wonderful as always . I especially like the one of him reaching out to make a cross on the little girl fronthead. He loves doing that !!

I had written a previous post talking about some books which Mons. Marini adviced me to purchase and I did, but somehow I lost it when I tried to preview it and now is too late to re-write everything again so I will try to do it tomorrow . It was a long paragraph. Sorry.

In three more days, on June 27th , our Piero will celebrate his 44th anniversary as a priest , WOW ! and on June 29Th , Saint Perter and Paul will celebrates his name's day.
I wish everyone will be here and we could all have a huge party for him !

Regards from Rome.

Hello again !

As I was trying to tell everyone yesterday, on June 16 Mons.Marini was kind enough to allow me to visit him in his office located now at The Palazzo di San Calisto. A beautiful Palazzo and in my opinion a beautiful location in the heart of Trastevere.

I was bringing with me two books " Exsequiarum Romani Pontificis" and
" Ordo Rituum conclavis " from the Office of Liturgical Celebrations, and about the ceremonies when a Pope dies and a new one is elected . I wanted him to sign the books for me. He nicely told me that I needed to buy new books with the explanations about those ceremonies. He brought the books out for me to see them and even made photocopies of the first pages so I could easily find them.
Of course I've bought the 3 books and although they have be sent home for me because they were too much fo me to carry etc... I kept one of them and I am already reading it.
The books are:

1- Magnum Iubilaeum . Trinitati Canticum.
Peculiari Celebrazioni Presiedute da Giovanni Paolo II
Nell'Anno Santo 2000

2- Sede Apostolica Vacante. Eventi e Celebrazioni, Aprile 2005

3- Inizio del Ministero Petrino del Vescovo di Roma Benedetto XVI

This last one is the one I kept with me. I am fascisnated reading it, one can learn so much from it...it's very interesting and I am really enjoying the book. Beautiful pictures in it too.

They is an Introduction and a In Memoriam by Mons. Piero Marini and then different authors have written the different parts of the book, like Mons. Viviani, Father Jesus castellanos (+) and Luigi Accattoli etc..

I would highly recommend them to anyone who could be interested in the subjects. I'm very much interested so for me they are great.

I have a variety of pictures which I've taken of our Piero, the Palazzo di San Calisto, the court of the Palazzo , the entrance to Mons. Marini's office etc... but I have to wait to post them. I will, when I get home which will be real soon.

One more time " hat off" to Vanadija, she is very unique, is she not ? I cannot believe things she finds in the net. I try my best and get nowhere....
Thanks a million Vanadija !!

Best regards from Rome

Wow, how lucky you are to be able to actually go and visit Mons. Marini in his office and talk to him. And even get his advise on which books to buy. How incredibly nice! I`m sure they must be a very good reading and well worth having. The topic interests me as well and the names you mentioned are all familiar (if I remember correctly abp. Marini even held a funeral Mass for late padre Castellano Cervera). So I`ll definitely try to find out if they can be bought on the internet.

Enjoy your days in Rome and make the most of your time there. I`m looking forward to those photos of Palazzo and everything else…….

Oh yeah, since you already praise me so much , here is an interesting video I stumbled upon earlier today. It was made by French TV for their evening news back in 2001 and it`s about Vatican preparations for the Midnight mass. Go to the 3rd video on the page; the part I`m talking about starts at approximately 17th minute: http://www.ina-festivaldecannes.com/notice/voirTouteVideoSimilaire/idNotice/I05251872

Boris I'm soooooo very happy for you!!! Honest!!!!!!
I can see you going trough Rome with a big smile on you face!!!!!!
Do you really think you need a plan for going home???

I myself have a smile on my face by reading your report!
Looking very much forward to the pics and anything else
you will "offer" us!

Vanadija... what will we do without you?!!!
Lost in the internet!!!!!!!!!
Thank you!!!! I was so surprised, that he speaks french so good like his
mother tongue! I wish I could have that talent in italian.

It's now nearly 1 day to go to his 4 times 11 anniversary!

Thank you Little Flower and Vanadija for you good wishes .
Yeah... I am most of the time smiling running around Rome like a chicken although sometimes I must have a extrange look in my face from all this rushing... Unfortunatelly my time in Rome is coming to an end really fast .

A plan for going home ? Don't want to think about that now....
For sure I will work hard to have all those pics ready to be posted etc... and I hope everyone will enjoy them, although my skills as a photographer are not great.
I agree 100% , what would we do without Vandija ..... you dear have a great talent for the internet ! we are very, very lucky having you, who on top of all are so generous and share everything.

Thank you so much for those links again. I was also very impressed with our Piero 's French , it's beautiful.... I wish I would speak like him ... even after so many years in Canada my French is not even close to his French.

And tomorrow our Piero will celebrate his 44th anniversary as a priest !!
Congratulations and God blessing always . On the 29 he will celebrate his name's day too... so dearest Archbishop have a very Happy name' Day !!
We will be thinking and praying for you . Fervidi Auguri caro arvescovo !!

First of all, congratulations for your 44th anniversary dear mons. Marini! May God bless you and your good work

Secondly, Boris, I can imagine how hard it must be for you to say goodbye to Rome; you have my sympathy. Leaving eternal city is probably never easy and even more so if you have spent so many wonderful moments there as you did. But on the other hand I can hardly wait for those photos of yours and I`m sure I will like them no matter of their quality.

Thirdly, everybody please stop saying all those nice things about me, I really feel embarrassed. Since you are such a grateful public, here is another candy for you – just scroll down to see the pics: http://www.diecezja.sosnowiec.pl/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2932&Itemid=62

Good Morning everybody and...

a special Good Morning Dear Eccellenza
congratulations for your anniversary.
Wishing you a wonderful and pleasant day
Thank GOD for having you in HIS service and therefore also for us!!

The good LORD bless and keep you...
Psalm 134, 119 , 146 & 150

Hello girls,

And... I cannot read those Psalms until I get home ...

Thank you Vanadija for your new link, wonderful pics indeed ! I cannot read Polish but when I get home I will use Google, it comes handy for this .

You will have my photos as soon as I get home . I can understand your curiosity.

Tomorrow and on Monday will be big days here. I hope I'll have some news.

Vespers today (I wish I could do better but the camera only showed him briefly and from afar):

And today`s Mass:

Wonderful pics Vanadija !! You did better from home than me being here.
Thank you so very much !