And you can enjoy the Oratory garden tonight after Vespers or tomorrow after the High Mass - two garden parties; come to both!

Outdoor eating is particularly Philippine.

Our Holy Father used to take the Dominican novices from the Minerva on picnics and tell them, “Eat! It makes me fat to watch you!”

He also took great crowds on the Seven Churches Walk around Rome, and they would picnic at SS Nereo & Achilleo. St Philip’s critics would say that he took, “seven asses laden with tarts.”

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