Roman Catholic Liturgical Pocket Calendar 2013
The following calendar presents images of etchings by Giuseppi Vasi depicting various locations in Rome of the mid-eighteenth century.  The images used are but a few from the ten books of etchings showing monuments of Baroque Rome which Vasi published between 1746 and 1761.  The details of the churches and other buildings shown in his etchings are very exact owing to the fact that Vasi was an architect as well as an artist.  Throughout this publication, the pre-1955 calendar and rubrics are followed.  Besides indicating the liturgical office proper to each day, with its color and rank, the calendar also indicates days of fast and abstinence, first Fridays, the holy days of obligation, the principal secular holidays, the beginning and the end of daylight saving time, the equinoxes and solstices, the phases of the moon, and the days on which private votive low Masses and low ordinary Masses of requiem (Quotidian) are permitted.A similar wall calendar in which the images presented are accompanied by appropriate selections from the book O Roma Felix: Practical Guide for Walks in Rome, is also available at http://www.amazon.com/shops/Dominican. The calendar is compiled by the Dominican Sisters of the Immaculate Heart of Mary who also direct the Saint Dominic Chapel Girls' Choir. The choir has recorded two Christmas CDs, presenting a host of traditional Christmas carols rendered simply and sweetly in a harmonious blend of young voices. To view these please visit http://www.amazon.com/shops/realcatholictreasures.