Thursday 20 December 2007

Another Papal Restoration?

Now, I may well be mistaken about this one, not having been to Papal Masses for some time, but if my memory serves me rightly, from the time of Paul VI until recently, the procession has emerged from one of the doors in the façade of the basilica and sort of sidled to the altar. Here's a bit of a home video from YouTube which clearly shows Pope Benedict following the old Papal processional entrance from the Bronze doors, through the square, and thus approaching the altar from the front. Much better. Now all we need to do is to persuade him back into the sedia gestatoria.
Being a home video, please excuse the cries of 'is that hiyum?' and 'Oh my Gaaaaaaad!'

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Oh my Gaaaaaaad! Only two accolytes.

Anonymous said...

Yes. It is agreed that our Holy Father does approach the outside Altar from the Bronze Door. At his great predecessor's Silver Jubilee, the throng of Bishops used that route, whilst he himself appeared from the atrium (perhaps mainly due to legs &c)

Anonymous said...

Doesn't "Being a home video, please excuse the cries ..." mean "Since you are a home video, please excuse the cries..." ? :-)

Anonymous said...

I am anon, shouldn't there be 7 accolytes?

Anonymous said...

Were those american accents you describe? lol