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Word to the Wise
Daily reflections on the readings from the day.
Monday, February 2, 2026 - Feb. 2: The Presentation of the Lord
[Mal 3:1-4; Heb 2:14-18; Luke 2:22-40 or 2:22-32,60]
These beautiful and prophetic words of consolation and fulfillment, spoken by Simeon, are...[more]
RBWords
Monthly reflections from the desk of Fr. RB.
Volume 38 - Number 1: January 2025
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Configuration
- debug
- xdebug
- logging
- cache
- compression
- tokenizer
- eaccelerator
- apc
- xcache
Request 
options:
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path_info_array: SERVER
http_port: null
https_port: null
default_format: null
logging: '1'
relative_url_root: null
formats: { txt: text/plain, js: [application/javascript, application/x-javascript, text/javascript], css: text/css, json: [application/json, application/x-json], xml: [text/xml, application/xml, application/x-xml], rdf: application/rdf+xml, atom: application/atom+xml }
no_script_name: false
parameterHolder:
action: index
module: static
attributeHolder:
sf_route: 'sfRoute Object()'
Response 
status:
code: 200
text: OK
options:
http_protocol: HTTP/1.1
logging: '1'
charset: utf-8
send_http_headers: false
content_type: 'text/html; charset=utf-8'
cookies: { }
httpHeaders:
Content-Type: 'text/html; charset=utf-8'
javascripts:
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'https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jqueryui/1.8.6/jquery-ui.min.js': { }
stylesheets:
main.css: { }
index.css: { }
metas:
title: RBWords
language: en
httpMetas: { }
User 
options:
auto_shutdown: false
culture: null
default_culture: en
use_flash: true
logging: '1'
timeout: 1800
attributeHolder: { }
culture: en
Settings 
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Globals 
cookie: { }
env: { }
files: { }
get: { }
post: { }
server:
CONTENT_LENGTH: ''
CONTENT_TYPE: ''
DOCUMENT_ROOT: /var/www/rbwords/web
DOCUMENT_URI: /c.php
FCGI_ROLE: RESPONDER
GATEWAY_INTERFACE: CGI/1.1
HOME: /var/www
HTTPS: on
HTTP_ACCEPT: '*/*'
HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING: 'gzip, br, zstd, deflate'
HTTP_HOST: rbwords.com
HTTP_USER_AGENT: 'Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; ClaudeBot/1.0; +claudebot@anthropic.com)'
PATH_INFO: ''
PHP_SELF: /c.php
QUERY_STRING: ''
REDIRECT_STATUS: '200'
REMOTE_ADDR: 216.73.216.1
REMOTE_PORT: '4133'
REQUEST_METHOD: GET
REQUEST_SCHEME: https
REQUEST_TIME: 1770008207
REQUEST_TIME_FLOAT: 1770008207.3069
REQUEST_URI: /c.php
SCRIPT_FILENAME: /var/www/rbwords/web/c.php
SCRIPT_NAME: /c.php
SERVER_ADDR: 167.71.185.58
SERVER_NAME: rbwords.com
SERVER_PORT: '443'
SERVER_PROTOCOL: HTTP/1.1
SERVER_SOFTWARE: nginx/1.14.0
USER: www-data
session: { }
Php 
php: 5.6.40-13+ubuntu18.04.1+deb.sury.org+1 os: 'Linux ubuntu-s-1vcpu-1gb-nyc3-01-RBWORDS 4.15.0-112-generic #113-Ubuntu SMP Thu Jul 9 23:41:39 UTC 2020 x86_64' extensions: 16: calendar 13: cgi-fcgi 0: 'Core (5.6.40-13+ubuntu18.04.1+deb.sury.org+1)' 17: ctype 1: 'date (5.6.40-13+ubuntu18.04.1+deb.sury.org+1)' 2: ereg 18: 'exif (1.4 $Id: cad29b729548e4206f0697710cc9e177f26fdff3 $)' 19: 'fileinfo (1.0.5)' 7: 'filter (0.11.0)' 20: ftp 21: gettext 8: 'hash (1.0)' 22: iconv 23: 'json (1.2.1)' 3: libxml 36: mhash 24: 'mysql (1.0)' 25: 'mysqli (0.1)' 14: 'mysqlnd (mysqlnd 5.0.11-dev - 20120503 - $Id: 76b08b24596e12d4553bd41fc93cccd5bac2fe7a $)' 4: openssl 5: pcre 15: 'PDO (1.0.4dev)' 26: 'pdo_mysql (1.0.2)' 27: 'Phar (2.0.2)' 28: posix 29: 'readline (5.6.40-13+ubuntu18.04.1+deb.sury.org+1)' 9: 'Reflection ($Id: 5f15287237d5f78d75b19c26915aa7bd83dee8b8 $)' 11: session 30: shmop 31: sockets 10: 'SPL (0.2)' 12: 'standard (5.6.40-13+ubuntu18.04.1+deb.sury.org+1)' 32: sysvmsg 33: sysvsem 34: sysvshm 35: 'tokenizer (0.1)' 37: 'Zend OPcache (7.0.6-devFE)' 6: 'zlib (2.0)'
Symfony 
version: 1.4.8 path: /var/www/rbwords/lib/vendor/symfony/lib
Logs
- [all]
- [none]



- Doctrine_Connection_Mysql
- Doctrine_Connection_Statement
- sfFilterChain
- sfPHPView
- sfPatternRouting
- sfWebDebugLogger
- sfWebResponse
- staticActions
| # | type | message |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | sfPatternRouting | Match route "homepage" (/) for / with parameters array ( 'module' => 'static', 'action' => 'index',) |
| 2 | sfFilterChain | Executing filter "sfRenderingFilter" |
| 3 | sfFilterChain | Executing filter "sfCacheFilter" |
| 4 | sfFilterChain | Executing filter "sfExecutionFilter" |
| 5 | staticActions | Call "staticActions->executeIndex()" |
| 6 | Doctrine_Connection_Mysql | exec : SET NAMES 'UTF8' - () |
| 7 | Doctrine_Connection_Statement | execute : SELECT w.id AS w__id, w.date AS w__date, w.liturgical_date AS w__liturgical_date, w.body AS w__body, w.scripture_quote AS w__scripture_quote, w.first_reading AS w__first_reading, w.psalm AS w__psalm, w.second_reading AS w__second_reading, w.gospel AS w__gospel, w.reading_note AS w__reading_note, w.times_viewed AS w__times_viewed, w.created_at AS w__created_at, w.updated_at AS w__updated_at, w.slug AS w__slug FROM wttw w WHERE (w.date = ?) - (2026-02-02) |
| 8 | Doctrine_Connection_Mysql | query : SELECT r.id AS r__id, r.number AS r__number, r.volume AS r__volume FROM rbword r ORDER BY r.volume DESC, r.number DESC - () |
| 9 | sfPHPView | Render "sf_app_dir/modules/static/templates/indexSuccess.php" |
| 10 | Doctrine_Connection_Statement | execute : SELECT r.id AS r__id, r.volume AS r__volume, r.number AS r__number, r.stta AS r__stta, r.ihbs AS r__ihbs, r.times_viewed AS r__times_viewed, r.date AS r__date, r.created_at AS r__created_at, r.updated_at AS r__updated_at, r.slug AS r__slug FROM rbword r WHERE (r.id = ?) LIMIT 1 - (205) |
| 11 | sfPHPView | Decorate content with "sf_app_dir/templates/layout.php" |
| 12 | sfPHPView | Render "sf_app_dir/templates/layout.php" |
| 13 | sfWebResponse | Send status "HTTP/1.1 200 OK" |
| 14 | sfWebResponse | Send header "Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8" |
Timers
| type | calls | time (ms) | time (%) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Configuration | 12 | 34.02 | 36 |
| Factories | 1 | 3.08 | 3 |
| Action "static/index" | 1 | 74.84 | 80 |
| Database (Doctrine) | 4 | 0.01 | 0 |
| View "Success" for "static/index" | 1 | 4.28 | 4 |
SQL queries
Doctrine Version: 1.2.3
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SET NAMES 'UTF8'
0.00s, "doctrine" connection -
SELECT w.id AS w__id, w.date AS w__date, w.liturgical_date AS w__liturgical_date, w.body AS w__body, w.scripture_quote AS w__scripture_quote, w.first_reading AS w__first_reading, w.psalm AS w__psalm, w.second_reading AS w__second_reading, w.gospel AS w__gospel, w.reading_note AS w__reading_note, w.times_viewed AS w__times_viewed, w.created_at AS w__created_at, w.updated_at AS w__updated_at, w.slug AS w__slug FROM wttw w WHERE (w.date = '2026-02-02')
0.02s, "doctrine" connection -
SELECT r.id AS r__id, r.number AS r__number, r.volume AS r__volume FROM rbword r ORDER BY r.volume DESC, r.number DESC
0.00s, "doctrine" connection -
SELECT r.id AS r__id, r.volume AS r__volume, r.number AS r__number, r.stta AS r__stta, r.ihbs AS r__ihbs, r.times_viewed AS r__times_viewed, r.date AS r__date, r.created_at AS r__created_at, r.updated_at AS r__updated_at, r.slug AS r__slug FROM rbword r WHERE (r.id = '205') LIMIT 1
0.00s, "doctrine" connection


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