There are some stunning camera angles and lighting, especially for the Blessing of the Candles. The music, I think, is quite stunning too and the official chants beautifully chanted by the Sistine Choir.
Please note the beauty of the photography.
I hope this is a sign of the new MC’s abilities to enhance the beauty of these papal Masses at St. Peter’s.
The Armenian Eastern Rite bishops are present in their stunning vestments that put the current version of papal vesture to shame.
There is an interesting gesture prior to the pope and an Eastern Bishop receiving Holy Communion.
Pope Francis is limping terribly and may be headed for the contraption that both Benedict and John Paul II used in processions. He is seated for the homily which looks much more papal but no miter.
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"There is an interesting gesture prior to the pope and an Eastern Bishop receiving Holy Communion."
I'm not familiar with this rite/Church however, I believe it to be part of their liturgy preceding the "Ecce Agnus Dei".
If ByzRus is correct, PF is signalling to the rest of us that 'mixing of rites', long prohibited, is now O.K. This raises interesting questions regarding insertion of EF elements into the OF.
As for PF's Mass being 'stunning', I was distinctly underwhelmed. It was mumbled in Italian, the sung Ordinary was the hackneyed Missa de Angelis, and three important chants which accompany the procession (in both forms) viz. Adorna, Responsum and Obtulerunt (GR 1974 pp 540-543) were left out. I have sung all three in a tiny village church in rural Buckinghamshire, so it should not have been beyond the resources of the Sistine choir.
John Nolan,
All true but at least the Sistine Choir no longer warbles the Chant
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