Out on a Limb

I have, generally, no use for papal prognostication.  Most prognosticators are engaging in wish-fulfillment anyway. Including me, of course.

But…here goes:

Deep breath….

Either Ouellet, Ranjith or Scola.

Name: Gregory or Leo, with more money on Leo.

Watched this tonight.  What a day that was.  Electric. Watching it made me sad (that he resigned) and grateful (for his work, witness and papacy).

Well…onward…Veni Creator Spiritus

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Angelus

Here’s a bit of video from Sunday’s Angelus.  The first is part of the prayer, the second is the Holy Father’s English greeting, and the third is afterwards – one of the three groups from the NeoCatechumenal Way that were singing and dancing in the square afterwards.

The first photo is of the set up – don’t know what the scaffolding is for, but if you look to the left, you can see the big screen with the prayer prompts!

 

Here’s the text of the Holy Father’s remarks. 

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Sunday at St. Peter’s

….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:

Pope Benedict’s talk at the Consistory

His homily for Sunday’s Mass.

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