If my purple prose isn't red enough...

...you can always watch TV (that's the other glowing screen in your room...)

The consistory, which starts at 4:30 a.m. Boston time on Friday, will air live on 7NEWS (WHDH-TV), hosted by anchor Christa Delcamp from Rome; CBS4, with reports from anchor Lisa Hughes in Rome; New England Cable News, with anchor R.D. Sahl in Rome, and Boston Catholic Television, with director Rev. Robert Reed in Rome.

There will also be live coverage here on Boston.com, where my colleagues promise minute-by-minute live updates starting at 4 a.m.

WCVB-TV, which has sent reporter Heather Unruh to Rome, plans to carry portions of the consistory live during its Friday morning newscasts.

For those of you planning to sleep in, or at least to sleep past 4:30, BCTV is also planning to rebroadcast the ceremony at 12:30 p.m. and 4:30 p.m. Friday. In addition, at 10:30 a.m. Friday BCTV plans to air an interview with Archbishop O'Malley, and at 11 a.m. and 4 p.m. Saturday BCTV will broadcast that morning's Mass of the Rings.

These big Catholic events always provide an unusual opportunity for priests to do color commentary, and two of Boston's will be on-air. The Rev. Paul B. O'Brien, pastor of St. Patrick Church in Lawrence, is in Rome and doing commentary for CBS4; the Rev. Chris O'Connor, of St. John's Seminary in Brighton, will be providing commentary from Boston on WBZ radio.