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Tuesday, November 26, 2019

WHAT’S GOING ON IN THESE VIDEOS? SEEMS THE HOLY FATHER IS QUITE DISTRACTED BUT NOT SURE WHAT IS ACTUALLY CAUSING THE DISTRACTIONS WITH A LOT OF MOVEMENT BEHIND THE POPE AND THE CHOIR FORGETS THE SANCTUS AND THE POPE SAYS IT A BIT WRONG IN LATIN

Let me know your thoughts on what is going on here:



4 comments:

Fr. Allan J. McDonald said...

I think the microphone is malfunctioning and this has distracted everyone including the Holy Father. I get easily distracted by sound system malfunctions.

John Nolan said...

Having mumbled the Preface in his own inimitable style, PF would have expected the choir to chime in with a vernacular Sanctus. It is quite likely the choir director was unaware that the Preface had finished (they were having trouble with the microphone at the start of Mass).

The Pope then has to say the Sanctus himself. He seems to have muddled up the Sanctus of the Mass with that of the Te Deum - Pleni sunt caeli et terra majestatis gloriae tuae. Given his age, it's excusable.

Fr. Allan J. McDonald said...

Thanks John, that helps. At Fr. Z's blog a commenter states the following, which i could not tell from the video:

He said “Dominus Vobiscum” for the preface, but continued with “Sit nomen… Auditorium nostrum in nomine Domini” as if he were going to bestow an apostolic blessing. Marini corrected him and the Holy Father then continued with the “Sursum corda” albeit flustered.

I do think the pope was terribly distracted by the sound system and was flustered by that as the system evidently cut off completely. I think it flustered Marini too.

At the end of the Mass the pope seems to be broadsided by the entertainment that follows immediately after the "Go in peace." He even winces at the startling music!
At the Vatican Pope Francis always takes his vestments off before the pope mobile ride through the square, unlike Pope Benedict and John Paul II.

TJM said...

I am not fond of PF, but in this circumstance, I have empathy for him. More empathy as I age