….guess I should have read the schedule more closely.
Since we’re a five minute walk away, and since it’s Sunday, we thought we’d go to Mass at St. Peter’s Sunday morning, and then stay for the Angelus. The regular schedule indicates a 10:30 Mass. So we got there about 10:15, in order to get through the security line, which was quite long….on the screens outside, the Pope was…talking…inside St. Peter’s. I was thinking that perhaps it was a replay of yesterday’s Consistory, but then we hit the door, and the sounds inside matched the sounds outside (the Credo by that point)…so, um, there we were inside St. Peter’s, halfway through Mass being celebrated by the Pope.
There were no seats of course, so we tried to find various vantage points from which we could see something besides the ceiling – no such luck. No one was moving from their hard-won SRO positions against the barriers, not even for angelic-looking children. We wandered to the back, eventually, and stayed there since it occurred to me that from there, we could see the Holy Father as he processed out – well, we could, sort of, although he turned away to go through the curtains before he got to us – the boys saw his face, though. Following are some photos – next post will be a couple of videos from the Angelus.
Waiting to get into the Basilica
Took this holding the camera over my head I never actually saw the altar with my own eyes.
Waiting at the end of Mass
And…there he goes.
Cardinal Rigali
Many men and women were wearing these, in honor of the new Cardinal from Nigeria
At the end of every church event, someone has to stack the chairs.
Texts:
Oops! Sometimes it is really hard to find the current Mass schedule and I’m guessing that perhaps you were reading it in Italian. I really count on parish websites and they aren’t always up-to-date. I must say though that more and more I find the current bulletin published and it is such a help when traveling.
Well, the regular St. Peter’s Sunday Mass schedule includes a 10:30. This was a special occasion, though