As a way of marking the anniversary, there was a Solemn High Mass at Corpus Christi, Maiden Lane. Fr. Tim Finigan was celebrant, Fr. Patrick Hayward was deacon, and Fr. Charles Briggs was sub-deacon.
The Mass was the one for the Chair of St. Peter, and, in honour of the occasion, Fr. Tim preached a rousing sermon. We finished with a Te Deum and then a few verses of God bless our Pope: I think I shall have to learn that one off by heart, as I never seem to have a copy of the words to hand when I need them!
I had remembered to bring my camera, and so managed to take a few photos - I shall try to make a YouTube video with them when I have some time, but, in the interim, here are the highlights...
As far as forward-facing altars go, this one is pretty good, but I still want to take a large bulldozer to it, as it really spoils the line of sight to the High Altar...
I hope I haven't disappointed the very nice lady sitting behind me - she congratulated me on being a really good photographer (she had seen my photos used on Fr. Tim's blog) - in reality, of course, all I do is point the camera and click. The results are rather snazzy though!!
5 comments:
Wow. Thank you for the links to the memory jogging posts.
The interview with Christina Odone was eye opening to me. She has a great facility with words which makes her appear ( to my mind) to be more on top of the issue than perhaps she actually is.
I thought Fr Burke did an excellent job of putting the plain facts on the table.
Paxo did well too I thought. I was glad to see that he didn't try to stitch the priest up as a number of other journalists would have.
It's funny to recall all that to mind now because I was away from the church then. But still
I remember being very interested, and pleased that a conservative and orthodox cardinal had been elected. Liberal, vapid catholicism had turned me off in the first place. It's either true or it's not.
Oh, and LOVELY photographs!
( PPS. Good Lord you get a lot of readers! My stats had a great jump after you gave me a shout out!)
woow...
great photos Mac.
I almost forget that April 19th is the anniversary of our pope.
Thanks to you, this post gives me a reminder to pray for him.
I compiled news from VIS, and several pic from AP photos to update my blog (in Indonesian).
http://kcrt.blogspot.com/2010/04/selamat-atas-5-tahun-bertahtanya-bapa.html
Argh. There is nothing more frustrating than a Novus Ordo Supper Table of Worship cluttering up an otherwise perfect sanctuary...
Great photos nonetheless! Someday I will make it across the pond.
Beautiful Mass! I loved the papal hymn at the end. I'm going to try and track it down on youtube or somewhere similar.
I tracked down the hymn and have popped it on my blog here if you want to watch it:
http://catholicwithattitude.blogspot.com/2010/04/god-bless-our-pope-great-good.html
Benedicite.
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