by Dianne Hales | Apr 5, 2019 | Books, books on Italy, history, Italy, Language, Religion, Sicily, Social behavior, Travel, Web/Tech, Weblogs
The Original Passione Passion Sunday, the fifth Sunday of Lent, marks the beginning of a two-week period sometimes called Passiontide. The early Christians fashioned the word passio from passus, the past participle of the Latin for “suffer.” I never...
by DHales | Mar 30, 2018 | Books, culture, Food and Drink, history, Italy, Language, Religion, Sayings and expressions, Travel, Web/Tech, Weblogs
Buona Pasqua! Happy Easter! On my first Easter in Rome in the Jubilee year of 2000, I joined the throngs jammed into the massive piazza of St. Peter’s basilica. Pope John Paul II, bent with age, extended Easter greetings in dozens of languages, including...
